Culture fit or shock? Tuck hosts annual Work/Life Symposium
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 13, 2007
CONTACT: Kim Keating - 603-646-2733
HANOVER, N.H.—On April 20, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth will host its ninth annual Work/Life Symposium, titled Culture Fit or Shock? The event explores the influence of corporate and geographic culture on one's ability to balance professional and personal interests. Organized by students, the conference highlights strategies for reaching the appropriate balance between work and personal life in the interest of both employees and employers.
Tuck MBA and Dartmouth Medical School students join faculty, alumni, community members, panelists, and speakers to exchange strategies for achieving balance in our lives. The symposium also provides tools, advice, and role models to help inspire participants to implement work/life balance initiatives as future leaders.
The day will include panel discussions covering a range of topics: Work/Life Balance in Consulting and I-Banking—an Oxymoron?, A Balanced Life in Medicine, View From the Top, and Staying Healthy While Busy.
Jody Thompson and Cali Ressler, founders of CultureRx, will deliver the keynote address and share their concept of Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE), an idea that is revolutionizing the workplace. Thompson and Ressler were featured on the cover of the December 11 issue of BusinessWeek for their implementation of ROWE at Best Buy.
The symposium will conclude with an interactive session titled The Integrated Life, led by Doug Smith T'70, chairman of Best Brands Corporation; Joe Johnson, chairman and CEO of The Telein Group; Caroline Moore, COO of Streuver Brothers, Eccles and Rouse; and Ken Murphy, writer, photographer, and consultant. This session will provide practical concepts and practices that enable people to successfully integrate their life and find success in terms of career, family, community and self, as well as an opportunity for each participant to consider their own individual challenges, talk with others, and consider what actions they might take that would lead to a more fulfilling, integrated life.
The day's events are open to the public. For more information and to register, please visit the 2007 Work/Life Balance Symposium website.
Sponsors of this year's event include Amgen, Bain & Company, Deutsche Bank, Eaton, ING, McKinsey & Company, Opera Solutions, The Parthenon Group, PepsiCo, Textron, and Tuck's MBA Program Office.
Founded in 1900, Tuck is the first graduate school of management and consistently ranks among the top business schools worldwide. Tuck remains distinctive among the world's great business schools by combining human scale with global reach, rigorous coursework with experiences requiring teamwork, and valued traditions with innovation.
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