In the News: Carey Business Professors Lend Expertise to Baltimore Metro Media

Professors from John Hopkins University Carey Business School often serve as experts in the media. Here are a few excerpts of various faculty members sharing their knowledge on a range of business topics.

Carey Business School Assistant Professor and social psychologist Erik Helzer is among the experts interviewed on “the global epidemic of overscheduling.” According to a study last year by Oxford Economics, the number of annual vacation days used by employees has steadily declined over the past 20 years, with Americans taking an average of just 16 days a year, less than half of what people take in many European countries.

On the subject, Erik Helzer said:

“Imagine if a colleague at work asks how you’re doing, and you tell them that you’re great because you’ve cut back on your workload to take more time for yourself. They might think you didn’t care. There is a norm toward being busy—and that busyness confers your value. Your potential worth is somehow wrapped up in the perceived lack of time you have.”

Kathleen Sutcliffe of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and School of Medicine is one of several scholars mentioned in a Baltimore Sun article on JHU’s Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships. According to the article,

Kathleen Sutcliffe, an expert in “high-reliability organizations” in health care and wildfire fighting, spent 20 years at the University of Michigan learning and teaching organizational theory and business management. She arrived at Hopkins last year to work with its Individualized Health Initiative, helping doctors improve treatment, testing and prevention for patients. She also is affiliated with the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety at the School of Medicine.

A 2015 graduate of the Design Leadership MBA/MA program of the Carey Business School and the Maryland Institute College of Art, Elizabeth Galbut discusses her background and experiences in a blog post on Global Invest Her. The piece also ran in The Huffington Post.

In the article, Galbut is asked what her biggest challenge as a woman leader has been. She replied:

It was a lot harder to gain the respect of some of my male colleagues and team members. For example, I created A-Level Capital while still at grad school. My co-founders are both men. In the beginning, there was a much lower level of initial respect from our team. I’ve had to build our team’s respect for me to get to the point that it’s equal. When I was in Consulting, I felt as respected as my male colleagues. In this investing industry I have to prove myself more, to be respected at the same level. I’m not naturally one to brag, so I am currently working on how I communicate and highlight my own achievements better. Something I’ve seen work really well for women, is to have someone else who the other party respects, say good things about you and build that ground level of respect.

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