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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
What motivates you at work? How about Peter, down the hall in accounting? Or Linda, who heads up sales? In “Stoy Foods,” a case taught in the second-year MBA course Managing, Organizing & Motivating for Value, students adopt different roles in a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
Joel Bines has a knack for inspiring others to take a chance on him. Time and again this hard-driving member of a close-knit Boston family has found himself succeeding in jobs for which he's had no prior experience. In each instance, he... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
orphanage, Andrew would smile shyly at us, as if asking ‘What about me?’ I don’t know what happened to him, but chances are he didn’t get adopted.” The unfairness of the situation prompted Taylor to action. He and his wife founded Pathways for Little Feet, a nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
lateral career move. There are benefits to being a working parent, of course—not only for family income and personal fulfillment but also potentially for children’s choices as adults. Research by Kathleen McGinn, Cahners-Rabb Professor of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
they've been in the same field for a while." Crossroads is a program for company presidents/owners contemplating career or life changes. In family dynamics—which women weigh heavily in career decisions—the ripple effect of a View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
crafted her business plan for Care.com, which she launched in 2006. Care.com brings together Marcelo’s passion for helping others and her entrepreneurial and management skills, to enable working families to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 May 2018
- News
The Work-Life Balancing Act
In a recent Harvard Business Review blog post, Jackie Coleman and John Coleman (MBA 2010) write that their decision to start a family “changed nearly everything in our working and personal lives.” From sleep... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
first Jakurski Family Associate Professors of Business Administration. Their chairs are funded by a gift from André R. Jakurski (MBA 1973) and his wife, Maria, and are part of a new effort to invest in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
their travels, providing “how-to” tips for families with similar interests. After Jennifer succumbed to ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in February 2003, completing the book became a labor of love for Nichols. Exotic Travel Destinations for... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
says he “wanted to warn other members of the family whom I knew, and those I had yet to find” about their chance of inheriting the serious blood disorder. Diamond had been retired only a few years after a successful career in the global... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 31 Aug 2022
- News
How to Reclaim Your Time and Happiness
- 13 Aug 2020
- News
How to Support COVID-Weary Employees
- 26 Jun 2023
- News
Time Affluence: The Path to a Meaningful Life
- 06 Apr 2021
- News
A Simple Strategy for Happiness
- 07 Oct 2020
- News
'Time Affluence' and Happiness
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
New York Times Company are all family enterprises. Yet until recently, the phenomenon of family businesses has attracted little formal attention in academia. Building on a long... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
can’t wait 10 years to do it,” Rawdon thought. Still at Siebel, and casting about for business ideas, she met Emily Meyer, a designer for Esprit and Gymboree who wanted to create a line of globally inspired children’s clothes. “Business... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
journey became the genesis of Saga. Cofounded with Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Saga is a social mobile app that helps families save and share stories in an audio format. Launched in mid-2020, the company currently has six full-time employees... View Details