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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
Keywords: COVID-19; Wage Gap; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Employment; Wages; Uganda
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  • 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
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  • 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

Keywords: Income; Household; Gender; Japan; Italy; United States; Sweden; Spain
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  • 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

FAQs - Alumni

For those age 13 and older, there will be a special Teen Case designed just for this age group. Once registered for reunion, families will receive a follow-up communication. While on campus , please note that onsite HBS-sponsored View Details
  • Web

Managing the Future of Work

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 current employees succeed. The American Opportunity... View Details
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1.5 Attendance - MBA

Dependent Childcare for illness, medical appointments or other emergency childcare needs. Observance of religious beliefs. Personal illness (see below for details). Recruiting (see below for details).... View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

Wesleyan University and worked at Bain and Company before he helped launch Bright Horizons, a work-site childcare company. A father of three who was known for his passion, generous spirit, and extraordinary sense of humor, Kates was an... View Details
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Africa - Global

the gender pay gap. Pre-pandemic sorting of women into economic sectors subject to the strongest restrictions and childcare responsibilities induced by schools’ prolonged closure only explain up to 65% of the employment gap. August 2024... View Details
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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

1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School - MBA

attendance and report their absence into the Student Absence Notification Tool per the Attendance Policy . When needed, they may report “Dependent Childcare for illness, medical appointments, or other emergency View Details
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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
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 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