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Bailyn Coauthors New Book on Retirement
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MIT Sloan Professor Emerita Lotte Bailyn has published a new book, Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You, that she coauthored with four other scholars: Teresa M. Amabile, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall, and Kathy E. Kram. The book, which was published by Routledge in early October 2024, explores the transition to retirement and how individuals restructure their lives in retirement. Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You is based on years of the authors’ research, including in-depth interviews with 120 people.
As Amabile, Bailyn, Crary, Hall, and Kram write in the introduction to their book, “Retiring is crossing a bridge from a land where work was a dominant feature of the landscape to a land without work—or with work appearing in vastly diminished or vastly different form.”
The book explores four key tasks associated with retirement: deciding how and when to retire, detaching from work, exploring an initial life structure for retirement, and then settling into a relatively stable retirement life.
Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Bailyn is the T Wilson (1953) Professor Emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she is also a Faculty Affiliate of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER). Crary is a Professor Emerita at Bentley University. Hall is the Friedman Professor of Management, Emeritus, at Boston University. Kram is the R.C. Shipley Professor in Management, Emerita, at Boston University.
Interested in learning more? Read a short excerpt from Retiring.
