In this area, this would be cutting-edge. As such, I think it would be very valuable to have a nationwide study identifying firms that are moving forward with changing the rigid traditional career hierarchies and becoming much more flexible and developing a wide variety of career paths where people can continue to add value to the firm, but also be present for family and still have a real chance at being the very senior leader of the firm.
This would require identifying those companies that are engaging in these kinds of practices and identifying the struggles they're having and coming up with the factors and contingencies that help them achieve some solutions and that would develop some models for business to use.