Balance - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Aug 2020
News

Defining Flex Work

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the workplace has been seismic, causing many companies to completely rethink their strategies and models. It was especially disruptive, says Anna Auerbach (MBA 2010), because companies had already been holding on to outdated ideas... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Flex Time

Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North Carolina, she’s managed to scale back her trips to two or three... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

22 Apr 2014
News

Find your passion in business and beyond

Adrian Beer (OPM 31, 2002), CEO of GrupoBeer, talks about finding balance between building your business and benefitting society. (Published April 2014) View Details

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

probability of a crisis within the next three years. “Once the bank balance sheet is handicapped, all kinds of other consequences come out.” An ensuing recovery can take longer to develop once a financial crisis abates if commercial... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Sep 2020
News

When Your Boss Doesn't Respect Your Family Commitments

Portrait Project

Nick Gerry-Bullard

next to the vastness of the world. But contact with absolutes – high mountains, large oceans, and wild creatures – also brought tranquility, a sense of balance from grasping my true scale. Observing our unabated exploitation of natural... View Details

05 Aug 2015
News

Mobilizing the Public to Fight Corruption

The corruption is so endemic in government that many people think it’s just how government operates. “We asked what can we do that will help the lives of everyday people?” Motte-Munoz says. “We’re interested in the situations where you can you actually tip the View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

Curb Your Smartphone Habit

PERLOW: “With projects that require creativity, teamwork, and innovation, you come to a point where working more has diminishing returns.” A self-described former “quant jock,” Leslie Perlow majored in economics at Princeton. But after studying with ethnographer John... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; smartphones; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information

Alumni WDYDWYD

Patricia Barron

at home gave balance that I did not know I needed. As I approached 43, our son arrived. Several months later we added a good friend's two sons when she died of cancer. Flexibility, straight talk, both key to my journey....emigrating,... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Noted & Quoted

“Trust your instincts 98 percent, your observations 50 percent, and your conclusions 25 percent.” —Zynga founder & CEO Mark Pincus (MBA 1993), discussing the entrepreneur’s need to balance data analysis and observation when evaluating... View Details

18 Aug 2014
News

Fighting income inequality with early education reform

economics to solve the problems of education resonated with me,” says Dias Griffin, who gave CHECC $13 million through the family foundation named for her and her husband, Ken. At the core of the program is a carefully curated curriculum that View Details

21 Feb 2022
News

Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson on Starting and Scaling a Small Business

22 Oct 2018
News

Capital Murder

At his 2012 wedding, Peter Stone (MBA 2008) received an unexpected compliment, in addition to all of the expected well wishes and toasts. Bestselling author and guest Margaret Stohl told Stone that she was impressed with the vows he’d composed for the ceremony. Was he... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2006
News

High Adventure

BEILHARZ: "I no longer feel like one of those pet animals on a wheel." On a rare break from running her new ecotourism business in the wilds of Texas Hill Country, Amy Beilharz (MBA ’84) reflects on the life she and her husband, David, have built since leaving... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; ecotourism; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Telecommunications; Information; Management

2017
Working Paper

The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer

By: Marco Di Maggio and Amir Kermani

We assess the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) serves as an automatic stabilizer to mitigate the economy's sensitivity to shocks. Using a local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household... View Details