Her care, accompanying her to the hospital for countless scheduled procedures,Īdministering a rigorous regimen of medications at home that had to be taken atĬertain times under certain conditions, many of which she hated, watching for sideĮffects, and on occasion rushing to the emergency room with late night fevers and I accepted with caution, not knowing what wasĬoming, hoping that I would not let him down and that I would be there for myĭaughter and the rest of our family as much as both they and I needed.ĭuring the 2 ½ years that my daughter was in treatment, I was on the front lines of Got too far down that path, my dean reached out to me with an offer to lighten my Tried to get comfortable with the idea that my career might actually be over. When my daughter was diagnosed with cancer, I considered going on leave, and Pulled up my calendar just to calculate the earliest possible date I could retire. More than once I’ve heard friends say, “I don’t know how you do it.” To beĬompletely transparent, there have been at least a handful of days when I have As of this month, she is considered fully recovered. In 2005, my second child, a toddler, was diagnosed I was pregnant with my firstĬhild when I arrived at Stanford. Meanwhile, I got married the same year I got tenure. I am also increasingly engaged in projects relating to the administration andįunction of the business school and the university. Programs at Stanford and consult with executives in a variety of industries in Silicon Impressive and demanding MBA students anywhere, direct executive education Today, I have a full research agenda andĪm engaged in research projects with colleagues all over the world. Northwestern University working toward getting tenure, and I spent five yearsīefore that getting my PhD in psychology. Before coming to Stanford, I spent 7 years at I am a professor at Stanford University in the Graduate School of Business, 25 years

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