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August 30, 2022
Article

School Choice Increases Racial Segregation Even When Parents Do Not Care About Race

By: Kalinda Ukanwa, Aziza C. Jones and Broderick L. Turner Jr.

This research examines how school choice impacts school segregation. Specifically, this work demonstrates that even if parents do not take the racial demographics of schools into account, preference differences between Black and White parents for other school... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Race; Policy; Early Childhood Education; Middle School Education; Secondary Education

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26 Dec 2014
News

When Parents Start Companies to Cure Their Children

15 Mar 2022
News

Seven Ways Parents Can Help Kids Persist at Tasks They Resist

27 Apr 2020
News

Three Things Lockdowns Have Exposed About Working and Parenting

18 Nov 2024
Podcast

Working While Parenting a Teen: Not What I Expected

Do you expect to have more time for yourself and for your career as your kids become teens and young adults? Amy G did. If you too are getting “urgent” texts from your teenager at all hours, feeling judged by other parents about your level of involvement, and trying to... View Details

May 2012
Case

Parent Company P and 80 Percent Owned Subsidiary Company S

By: David F. Hawkins and F. Robert Madera

A sample consolidation exercise. View Details

Keywords: Consolidation Accounting; Consolidation; Accounting

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02 Aug 2021
News

Missing Voices in the Child Tax Credit Frenzy — Parents

23 Sep 2020
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Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method

when she became a full-time mother after a successful corporate career, Jones says feeling overwhelmed with parenting sparked an idea: maybe she could raise her son using the case method. “I thought about how to use it to help my son... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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3 Keys to Authentic Success as a Parent and Professional

Authentic success is success on your own terms . . . it's the peace, purpose, and joy you feel when you let go of what others expect, re-discover what you truly want for yourself, and then take action to go get it. As an HBS graduate, you know what it's like to be... View Details

30 Mar 2017
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Science says parents of successful kids have 17 things in common

11 Aug 2022
News

When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?

November 1988 (Revised March 1990)
Case

Progressive Corp.: Coping with the Problem of Dual Career Parents (A)

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges

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February 1990
Supplement

Progressive Corp.: Coping with the Problem of Dual Career Parents (B)

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Family and Family Relationships

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24 Mar 2015
News

Paid Parental Leave, Olympics Reversal & Anniversary Of Back Bay Fire

01 Sep 2010
News

Now Starring: Single Dad

WAND: With Robby, at HBS. Courtesy John Wand John Wand (MBA ’81) was about to enroll in Harvard College when his high-school sweetheart in Boise, Idaho, told him she was pregnant. The couple married and moved to Cambridge, but after a couple of years, Wand’s wife left... View Details

Keywords: single parents; fatherhood; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Article

The Baby Benefits Club

By: Debora L. Spar

This past summer several prominent firms seemed to be competing for the title of America's most family-friendly company. In August, Netflix announced plans to offer new mothers and fathers "unlimited leave". Microsoft countered quickly, promising to increase its own... View Details

Keywords: Parental Leave; Maternity Leave; Employees; Compensation and Benefits; Policy; Gender; Equality and Inequality

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18 Oct 2023
News

How Companies Are Helping Employees Stuck Between Work and Caring for Aging Parents

18 Nov 2013
News

Diving into the 'Shark Tank'

Donna Khalife (MBA 2011, at left) and sister, Rosy, make their pitch on ABC-TV's Shark Tank. Donna Khalife (MBA 2011) and her sister, Rosy, were taking a lunch break from work on their startup Surprise Ride—which delivers a box of curated children's activities... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; parenting; childhood; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information