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- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
educated and valuable talent in a competitive labor market. The loss of women managers—and potential future leaders—has been particularly vexing for executives. Many of them cling to the belief that women’s struggle to balance their home... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
found a balance that works most of the time: My husband does the morning drop-off, and I do the afternoon pickup, although it’s a precarious balance that is easily thrown off by a child getting sick or an... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
and the legacy that you wish to leave, and it is probably still my favorite of all Ishiguro’s books. I also love memoirs and found Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air to be so powerful. It is a thought-provoking book for those like myself who are constantly trying... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
that total income fell into the range covered by the new rule). Long working hours take their toll on family lives of both men and women, according to a study of professionals of both sexes. Women who try to balance work and family are... View Details
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Erika Osterling
network search. Erika approaches coaching with a combination of self-reflection and action-orientation. Through her personal journey, she is also experienced in navigating a job search with US immigration & work authorization requirements, View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Noted & Quoted
"I'll have a bad day; then I'll recall when one of the diving team drowned and you realize that the fact chocolate-chip cookies haven't sold well isn't that serious." —Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993), CEO of the UK-based Domino's Pizza Group and former member of the Royal... View Details
Keywords: quotations
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Noted & Quoted
"I was always a windup toy for achievement." —Barry Rowan (MBA 1983), on taking a "purposeful pause" in his career before moving to Cool Planet Energy Systems. (CFO.com, December 19, 2012) View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
don't mean that your style needs to be the same as that of your boss, but you should be in sync and try to make sure your skills complement each other. For example, if your supervisor is a "big-picture" thinker, you could View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Escape Hatch
Disconnect. Rebalance. Recharge. “We get real notes from real people who stay in our real houses,” he says, describing a recent message from a woman who thanked Getaway for helping put her marriage back on track. “That kind of feedback has made us even more committed... View Details
- Career Coach
Meredith Hamilton
well as recognizing and eliminating the ways in which they may be blocking or limiting their own success. She has found that—with the right balance of curiosity, vulnerability and honesty—coaching can be a transformative experience, and... View Details
- 31 Jul 2016
- News
You Rang?
(Courtesy of Hello Alfred) (Courtesy of Hello Alfred) Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck (both MBA 2015) met as students at HBS. They knew they wanted to start a business, but worried about the difficulty of balancing their work and personal... View Details
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AOM Ethno PDW 2009-2014
AOM PDW 2014: Being There/Being Them: Entry, Exit, and In-Between in Organization Ethnography
Co-Organizers: Michel Anteby, Harvard; Curtis K. Chan, Harvard; Julia DiBenigno,... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- News
Don’t Let Your Partner’s Work Stress Become Your Own
- 21 May 2020
- News
How to Cope with That “Always-On” Feeling
- February 2006
- Case
Michelle Levene (A)
Michelle Levene discovers that she is pregnant a few days before receiving an offer for her dream job. The new position would require Levene to travel extensively, something she would not be able to do towards the end of the pregnancy and while caring for a newborn.... View Details
Keywords: Work-Life Balance
Casciaro, Tiziana E., and Victoria Winston. "Michelle Levene (A)." Harvard Business School Case 406-083, February 2006.
- October 1997
- Article
Vacancy Chains and Equilibration in Senior-Level Labor Markets
By: Y. Blum, A. E. Roth and U. G. Rothblum
Blum, Y., A. E. Roth, and U. G. Rothblum. "Vacancy Chains and Equilibration in Senior-Level Labor Markets." Journal of Economic Theory 76, no. 2 (October 1997): 362–411.
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
Viking Mead—soon followed. "It's crazy and exciting," says Appling. Appling has been able to maintain work/life balance with his current job as president and CEO of Personal Communications Devices, a wireless accessories manufacturer and... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
understand what it means to want to provide for your family. And some of us have not come from the best means, so we're looking to do something to help our families and our communities. And the challenges that come along with balancing... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
sugarcoated: balancing the challenges of a demanding career with motherhood. "You've got three choices," Hunt tells her students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she runs the Women and Public Policy Program. "You can go... View Details