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- September 2024
- Article
Gender Gaps: Back and Here to Stay? Evidence from Skilled Ugandan Workers During COVID-19
By: Livia Alfonsi, Mary Namubiru and Sara Spaziani
We investigate gender disparities in the effect of COVID-19 on the labor market outcomes of skilled Ugandan workers. Leveraging a high-frequency panel dataset, we find that the lockdowns imposed in Uganda reduced employment by 69% for women and by 45% for men,... View Details
Alfonsi, Livia, Mary Namubiru, and Sara Spaziani. "Gender Gaps: Back and Here to Stay? Evidence from Skilled Ugandan Workers During COVID-19." Review of Economics of the Household 22, no. 3 (September 2024): 999–1046.
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t
- June 2021
- Case
Acelero Learning
By: Mario Small, Kathleen L. McGinn, Amy Klopfenstein and Katherine Chen
In November 2020, Henry Wilde, co-founder and CEO of Acelero, Inc., must decide whether to change his company’s program model for delivering early childhood education to low-income children. One of the only for-profit Head Start providers in the United States, Acelero... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Adoption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Operations; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States
Small, Mario, Kathleen L. McGinn, Amy Klopfenstein, and Katherine Chen. "Acelero Learning." Harvard Business School Case 921-029, June 2021.
- 25 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress)
people suggested turning to friends and family for help—for example, by asking a friend for a ride or asking a family member to help with childcare or dinner. Cash is the answer for people with money: The higher a person’s income,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Aug 2023
- Book
You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance
what I can to be happy now.” Wallace was inspired to write the book—a mix of case study, research, and memoir—by witnessing the mindset shift among her millennial peers, who came of age during a recession, pandemic-related instability, and skyrocketing college,... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- Summer 2008
- Editorial
Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations
By: James Feyrer, Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Dora Stern
Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in household production and... View Details
Feyrer, James, Bruce Sacerdote, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations." Journal of Economic Perspectives 22, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 3–22.
- 23 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers
furtively wedged between meetings and deadlines. Shifts to remote work and flexible hours during early pandemic lockdowns, for example, made care obligations less secretive. But it might not persist: About 50 percent of employers plan to continue offering backup View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- Web
Managing the Future of Work
both performance and access to talent. With the rising burden of childcare and eldercare, it's in the best interest of employers to invest in fostering a care culture—one that attracts caregivers on the margins of the workforce and helps... View Details
- Web
FAQs - Alumni
& Protection of Minors . Evening social events are not appropriate for individuals under the age of 21. For off-campus childcare, please refer to the 'childcare resources' question below. What off-campus childcare resources are available?... View Details
- Web
Hidden Workers, Untapped Talent - Managing the Future of Work
Francis Hintermann 03 OCT 2024 Companies have long ignored the caregiving responsibilities of employees, compromising both performance and access to talent. With the rising burden of childcare and eldercare, it's in the best interest of... View Details
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Web
Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni
ready. Taking a Step Back Even the most ambitious and accomplished of HBS professionals will want, or need, to step back from business commitments to address more personal concerns, such as: Childcare and family growth Elder care and... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
employees. Restaurant owners must also provide flexibility in scheduling due to childcare needs and the possibility that summer programs and schools may be closed until September or later. Some employees may be reluctant to return because... View Details
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
COVID-19 variants snuffed out the brief period of vaccination-injected optimism earlier this year, as childcare and school disruptions lingered. Despite such resistance and health concerns, some employees have joyfully returned to their... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
professional and personal lives, or who might need to toggle between work and childcare depending on the needs of the day. “The Portugal legislation makes it easier for people, both men and women, to go into the work-from-anywhere mode if... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
increasingly apparent across professions worldwide, for all kinds of working women as the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc in the United States and around the world. Leadership should consider childcare infrastructure at each... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
same time, we want to support those in need, to give them a "fair shot," so we make use of policies such as the earned income tax credit, childcare subsidies, and Medicaid to help people work their way into the broad middle... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
wouldn’t necessarily know that they are dealing with little ones at home and childcare issues. Or that they have elderly parents they have to take care of. To maximize how they show up at work, I’ve got to take the time to understand... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 11 May 2022
- Blog Post
MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS
in how to spend time as a mother. I took a gap semester in my EC (second) year because I felt I was drowning between classes, the part-time job I wanted to do, and a broken childcare support system (daycare was shortened due to COVID).... View Details
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
conducive to remote work on average did not report comparatively higher gains in productivity as a result of the transition to working outside the office, says Luca. Those findings, the researchers believe, reflect conditions surrounding the pandemic that have made... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz