Lotte Bailyn

Lotte Franziska Bailyn (née Lazarsfeld; born July 17, 1930) is an American social psychologist. She is the T Wilson Professor of Management, Emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She was the first woman faculty member at MIT Sloan.

Early life and education Lotte Lazarsfeld was born in Vienna, Austria in 1930. She is the daughter of Marie Jahoda and Paul Felix Lazarsfeld. Her family fled Austria to New York City in 1937 after the Nazi occupation.

In 1951, she earned her BA in mathematics from Swarthmore College and her PhD in social psychology from the Radcliffe Graduate School in 1956. She received a professorship at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1980.

From 1997 to 1999, she was Chair of the MIT faculty, succeeding Lawrence Bacow.

Bailyn carried out research on structural change in the world of work in industrial projects and, in her study published in 1993, came to the conclusion that the isolation between the world of work and family that arose in industrial society was a hindrance to work productivity and job satisfaction.

Awards and honors In 2000, she received an honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Piraeus in Piraeus, Greece.

In 2021, Bailyn was awarded the 2021 Centennial Medal of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. from the social democratic educational organizations in Austria (SPÖ Education).

Publications Mass media and children: a study of exposure habits and cognitive effects. Washington : American Psychological Assn., 1959. Dissertation Radcliffe College, 1956 with Bernard Bailyn: Massachusetts Shipping, 1697–1714: A Statistical Study (Harvard University Press, 1959) with Edgar H. Schein: Living with Technology: Issues at Mid-Career (MIT Press, 1980) Breaking the Mold: Women, Men, and Time in the New Corporate World. (Free Press, 1993) Breaking the Mold: Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives (Cornell, 2006) with Charles M. Vest, Robert J. Birgeneau: A study on the status of women faculty in science at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999) with Joyce K. Fletcher; Bettye H. Pruitt; Rhona Rapoport: Beyond Work - Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance (Jossey-Bass, 2001) ISBN 0-7879-5730-5 Mitherausgeberin von National Academy of Sciences: Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (National Academies Press, 2006) ISBN 0-309-10042-9