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23 Dec 2021
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How to Figure Out What You Want Next in Your Career

19 Apr 2021
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Why Is a Daily Commute Good for You?

28 May 2020
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Embracing the Whole Individual

Keywords: Kristina A. Bourne, Fiona Wilson, Scott W. Lester, Jill Kickul

1977
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A Fixed Point Approach to Stability in Cooperative Games

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Game Theory; Balance and Stability; Cooperation

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01 Mar 2013
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Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs (2012). Has your own definition of career success evolved over the years? Cynthia Montgomery Throughout my adult life—and the early years of raising children—I've believed that with careful choices, one could have a View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

February 2006
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Michelle Levene (A)

Michelle Levene discovers that she is pregnant a few days before receiving an offer for her dream job. The new position would require Levene to travel extensively, something she would not be able to do towards the end of the pregnancy and while caring for a newborn.... View Details

Keywords: Work-Life Balance

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October 1997
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Vacancy Chains and Equilibration in Senior-Level Labor Markets

By: Y. Blum, A. E. Roth and U. G. Rothblum

Keywords: Labor; Markets; Balance and Stability

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11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

the 1980s, with time dimension modifications introduced by Anderson for clients of Acorn Systems. We asked Kaplan to describe the problems with traditional costing approaches, the improvements made by TDABC, and how it works with the View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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On the Correspondence of Contracts to Salaries in (Many-to-Many) Matching

By: Scott Duke Kominers

In this note, I extend the work of Echenique (2012) to show that a model of many-to-many matching with contracts may be embedded into a model of many-to-many matching with wage bargaining whenever (1) all agentsʼ preferences are substitutable and (2) the matching with... View Details

Keywords: Many-to-Many Matching; Stability; Substitutes; Contract Design; Unitarity; Market Design; Contracts; Marketplace Matching; Balance and Stability; Economics

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24 Oct 2022
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How to Spend Time on What You Value

05 Feb 2021
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Strategies to Put You Over the Top in 2021

02 Jul 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Mums the Word! Cross-national Effects of Maternal Employment on Gender Inequalities at Work and at Home

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Elizabeth Long Lingo

Fall 2023
Article

Firms, Rules, and Global Capitalism

By: Rawi Abdelal

Every organization of the world economy has been unstable. Each system is necessarily composed of trade-offs. Opportunities emerge, and disappointments abound. Nothing lasts; nothing is finished; and nothing is perfect. View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Business History; Balance and Stability

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29 Jun 2021
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Combating Burnout as a Single Working Parent

08 Sep 2020
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How to Identify a Family-Friendly Employer

23 Feb 2017
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Alcan CEO Remembered

Keywords: manufacturing; Alcan; obituary; leadership; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2013
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Silk Gift Honors Wife

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13 Oct 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Building a Business in the Context of a Life

When MBAs start the second semester of their second year at Harvard Business School, most have already lined up new jobs--but that doesn't mean they have a clear idea what they want out of the rest of their lives. The same could be said for many business practitioners... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education