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The Transition to Retirement

By: Teresa M. Amabile

My current major research program is the Retirement Transitions Study: a broad study of retiring professionals' everyday experiences, including identification with work; identity stability, change, and development; meaningfulness of work; changes in life structure,... View Details

Keywords: Careers; Psychology; Creativity; Identity; Retirement; Meaning
  • July 2022
  • Article

What Do I Make of the Rest of My Life? Global and Quotidian Life Construal across the Retirement Transition

By: Jeff Steiner and Teresa M. Amabile
Retirement means relinquishing the daily structure that work provides and the career-dependent meanings that it offers life narratives. The retirement transition can therefore involve contemplating both how to spend newly-freed daily time and the implications of... View Details
Keywords: Retirement Transition; Life Narrative; Construal Level Theory; Global Construal; Quotidian Construal; Meanings Of Work And Retirement; Retirement; Transition; Perspective
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  • Aug 2018
  • Conference Presentation

Identity Bridging across the Retirement Transition

By: Teresa M. Amabile
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  • 30 Sep 2020
  • News

3 Tips for a Smooth Transition into Retirement

  • November–December 2024
  • Article

Retire Without Regrets

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. "Tim" Hall and Kathy E. Kram
This article explores the significant transition of retirement and offers insights into creating a satisfying postcareer life. It highlights the contrasting experiences of Irene and Lawrence, two retirees who navigated this change differently. Irene embraced retirement... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Satisfaction; Transition; Identity
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    Retire without Regrets

    This article explores the significant transition of retirement and offers insights into creating a satisfying postcareer life. It highlights the contrasting experiences of Irene and Lawrence, two retirees who navigated this change differently. Irene embraced... View Details

    • August 2021
    • Article

    The Undervalued Power of Self-relevant Research: The Case of Researching Retirement While Retiring

    By: Teresa M. Amabile and Douglas T. (Tim) Hall
    For decades, training in management research has emphasized objectivity, typically viewed as an arm’s length distance between the topic of the research and the interests of the researcher. This emphasis has led most scholars to avoid research topics of deep personal... View Details
    Keywords: Qualitative Research Methods; Case Research Methods; Organizational Behavior; Careers; Career Changes And Transitions; Self-relevant Research; Research; Personal Development and Career; Transition; Identity; Retirement
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    • 20 Feb 2020
    • News

    Mapping Out a Fulfilling Retirement

    • 01 Oct 2000
    • News

    Faculty Retirements

    the Executive Education Program, including The CEO Transition Workshop, Managing Business Transformation, Leading Professional Services Firms, and Strategic Human Resource Management. His research on mid- and late-life View Details
    • 30 Jun 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking Retirement Planning

    much mid-cap European stock you should have in your portfolio, any more than it would enable you to perform surgery on yourself." Intelligence is not the issue, he emphasizes; it really is a question of knowledge and time. Retirement... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
    • 10 Apr 2025
    • News

    How to Transition Into Retirement Without Losing Your Identity with Teresa Amabile and Lotte Bailyn

    • November 2018
    • Case

    Governance Transition at Anadolu Group

    By: Paul M. Healy and Esel Y. Cekin
    Kamil Yazici and Izzet Ozilhan founded and built Anadolu Group Holding—a family business that grew into a multi-billion-dollar regional powerhouse. For 57 years they were equal partners in running the company. They then handed over a leadership role to a next... View Details
    Keywords: Family-managed Business; Professionally-run Company; Second-generation; Third-generation; Governance; Governance Changes; Succession Planning; Corporate Culture; Shareholders; Board Of Directors; Long-term Sustainability; Conglomerate; Family Business; Corporate Governance; Change Management; Management Succession; Leadership; Transition; Organizational Structure; Consumer Products Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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    • 20 Nov 2018
    • News

    Seven Strategies for Maintaining a Sense of Self in Retirement

    • April 2025
    • Article

    Transitioning Into Retirement: The Interplay of Self and Life Structure

    By: Marcy Crary, Douglas T. (Tim) Hall, Kathy E. Kram, Teresa M. Amabile and Lotte Bailyn
    This paper explores the psychological, social, and behavioral ways in which professionals end their corporate careers and reorient themselves and their lives in the transition from employment to retirement. Framed within life course theory, specifically the adult... View Details
    Keywords: Retirement; Behavior; Transition; Identity
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    • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 24 Jan 2017
    • Webinars: Trending@HBS

    Your Move: Making the Most of Your Next Transition (Professional or Personal)

    Are you in transition or considering one in the New Year? Countless life events, like the sale of a company or a career change or an empty nest or re-entering the workforce or retirement or divorce, can leave us at the doorstep of transition. View Details
    • 27 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

    use of remote patient monitoring services grows—driven by health care limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic—clinicians, payers, and patients face important questions regarding the volume, value, and appropriate use of this care model.” The Effects of View Details
    • January 2025 (Revised March 2025)
    • Case

    Thomas Müller: Mr. Bayern Munich

    By: Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, Alexander Liebhart and Sarah Abbott
    In 2024, FC Bayern Munich superstar Thomas Müller announced his retirement from German national football. His contract with Bayern Munich runs through the end of the 2024-25 season. In 2025, Müller reflects on his long career in football, on the skills that have driven... View Details
    Keywords: Soccer; Football; Data Science And Analytics Management; Bundesliga; Sports Data; ＂Sports Organizations,; Career Changes And Transitions; Career Management; Retirement Transition; Skills Development; Analysis; Competency and Skills; Decision Making; Performance; Personal Development and Career; Retirement; Transition; Sports Industry; Germany
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    • 20 Feb 2019
    • Blog Post

    Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals

    military?  Thinking about what you will do next?  Consider a JD/MBA.   I was once in your shoes.  I decided to leave the military after seven years of active duty service and landed at Harvard Law School in 2015 as a youthful 29-year-old.  My View Details
    • 15 Dec 2024
    • News

    The Golden Thread

    Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology
    • 17 Sep 2018
    • News

    Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?