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  • 19 Aug 2014
  • News

A Post-Maternity Leave Survival Guide

Keywords: motherhood; maternity leave; workplace relationships; emotions; psychology
  • 20 Feb 2013
  • News

When maternity leave doesn’t mean ‘out of office’

  • 30 Nov 2020
  • News

Maternity Leave Isn’t Enough to Retain New Moms

  • 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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  • 28 Feb 2017
  • News

Can You Have Too Much Maternity Leave? In Europe, Maybe

  • 10 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

before. I wasn’t sure. I made a calculated decision to have a baby at business school. Sure, I could have deferred for a year and taken advantage of my consulting firm’s generous maternity leave policy. Yet,... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

by Willis Towers Watson found that 40 percent of employees desire family-related assistance, with preference for expanded family leave, bereavement leave or assistance, and additional maternity leave.... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 15 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

forget to outline next steps. Leave the conversation with a clear plan, so the gains made during the talk don’t fizzle out. Steve pledges to draft an email inquiring about his future opportunities at the company that his mother can send... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

employment relative to their peers raised by moms who stayed home, but they report spending more time with their own families. This is especially important as both men and women strive for greater involvement with loved ones while also pursuing their careers. “Our... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 23 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

spirited three-year-old son, and is expecting a second child; Brooks just returned to HBS from maternity leave in August. In other words, these are the last people in the world who would try to thwart female... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

apps to improve their and their children’s health outcomes. Ovia seeks to improve poor maternal health outcomes, particularly among women and children of color, adopting as its existential intent the provision of “equal care, longitudinal... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 11 May 2022
  • Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

well. What is the hardest part about being pregnant at HBS? Knowing that I will deliver and have to return to class in two weeks compared to the multiple-months-long maternity leave I see my friends enjoy... View Details
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1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School | MBA

Students who feel they need more absences than what is stated above should contact MBA Student & Academic Services to discuss their options. Video recordings of missed classes will, as a matter of course, be sent to students who are on View Details
  • 15 Apr 2025
  • News

Mothers of Invention

VC Backed Moms founders Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017), and Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) Illustration by John Ritter Early in her first pregnancy, having just launched the venture she cofounded, Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017) wondered how she could take maternity... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 08 May 2019
  • Blog Post

Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent

can do x,’” says Cheney. “I had an ‘aha’ moment that there was a lack of a marketplace to connect the supply and demand on that.” A New Recruiting Solution is Born Cheney built out the concept for Prokanga while on maternity View Details
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

flexible schedule, the lack of appropriate role models in traditionally "male" industries, the impact of maternity leaves on promotion opportunities, and a realignment of ambitions after experiencing... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World

that we needed to look into other ways of becoming parents," she recalls. "It hadn't occurred to me earlier that we had a choice." Having extended her maternity leave into a long-term View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
  • 04 Jan 2016
  • News

Taking Time Out for a Challenge

master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School in 2005. At HBS, she is pursuing a PhD in organizational behavior and sociology. Manning decided to take a leave from her PhD path and step in as acting CEO of Welbodi, providing... View Details
Keywords: ebola; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 11 Jun 2021
  • News

The Power of Resilience

On her newborn’s one-week birthday, Somani learned she was in the early stages of a particularly invasive and aggressive form of cancer. Her maternity leave suddenly turned into a medical View Details
  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

managed to achieve success and satisfaction in both realms. She related how in June 1983, six months pregnant with her first child, she became the Times' highest-ranking woman when the paper named her deputy metropolitan editor. She took a six-month View Details
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