Lotte Bailyn

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Lotte Bailyn is the T Wilson (1953) Professor of Management, emerita, at the MIT Sloan School of Management.  For the period 1997-99 she was Chair of the MIT Faculty, and during 1995-97 she was the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at Radcliffe’s Public Policy Institute.  She studies the intersection between work and family life, and explores organization practices meant to reconcile the demands of both. In Breaking the Mold: Women, Men and Time in the New Corporate World (1993) she made the argument that efforts to redesign organizations to succeed in an intensely competitive world will fail unless its architects take into account the changing nature of the work force — the significant entry of women and the consequent changes in lifestyles for both men and women.  Her attempts, along with colleagues, to make organization changes that meet the dual agenda of gender equity and work effectiveness are detailed in the updated and revised edition Breaking the Mold: Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives (2006) as well as in Beyond Work-Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance (2002) of which she is a co-author. Among her awards are the Everett Cherrington Hughes Award for careers scholarship (2003) and the Scholar-Practitioner Award (2012) from the Academy of Management, the 2021 Centennial Medal from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and three honorary degrees, the last from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (2022).