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  • October 2009
  • Article

Making Time Off Predictable—and Required

By: Leslie Perlow and Jessica L. Porter
People in professional services believe a 24/7 work ethic is essential for getting ahead—and so they work 60-plus hours a week and stay tethered to their BlackBerrys. This perpetuates a vicious cycle: Responsiveness breeds the need for more responsiveness. When people... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance Expectations; Performance Productivity; Work-Life Balance; Service Industry
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  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

  Publications August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The Surprising Benefits of Nonconformity By: Bellezza, Silvia, Francesca Gino, and Anat Keinan Abstract—This research demonstrates that, under certain circumstances, people wearing unconventional attire are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Organizational Behavior - Doctoral

(Chair), Julie Battilana , Leslie A. Perlow , and Christopher Winship Julie Yen, 2024 Boston University, Questrom School of Business, Management and Organizations Advisors: Julie Battilana (Chair), Lakshmi Ramarajan , and Daniel Schneider... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better

others, but also from where they are doing it. This is important, given that we are in an era in which options for how, when, and where people spend time are perhaps more varied than ever before. Leslie A. Perlow is the Konosuke... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Placement - Doctoral

Michael Y. Lee Management, 2019 Placement: INSEAD, Organizational Behavior Area Dissertation: Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the Dynamics and Consequences of Radically Decentralizing Authority Advisors: Amy C. Edmondson (Chair), Leslie A. View Details
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Organizational Behavior Faculty - Faculty & Research

Professor of Leadership Development Anthony Mayo Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator Tsedal Neeley Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Toward a Life Well Lived

students plan more intentionally for the path ahead, navigate the bumps that arise, and stay true to their values, Perlow created a second-year course, Crafting Your Life: The Tactics and Practices of the First 10 Years Post-MBA. “What I... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
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Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA Leslie Perlow Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) Ryan Raffaelli Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills (also listed under Strategy)... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

pay rations; however, the actual ratio is more like 300:1. Can increasing awareness of current inequality shift preferences toward policies that reduce it? Crafting Your Life: Are You Living Consistent with What Matters Most to You? Professor Leslie View Details
  • 29 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

people who are, ideally, supposed to be doing creative work much of the time!). My HBS colleague Leslie Perlow has identified a "time famine" in corporate America today. Given the prominence of time pressure in people's work... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts
  • Web

Student Research - Doctoral

2 results Elie Ofek Marketing 1 results Leslie A. Perlow Organizational Behavior 1 results Maria P. Roche Strategy 1 results David S. Scharfstein Finance 1 results Suraj Srinivasan Accounting and Management 1 results Adi Sunderam Finance... View Details
  • September 2023
  • Case

Derek Aguirre

By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman
Derek Aguirre is the executive director of a nonprofit organization in Detroit, Michigan that uses the sport of squash as a vehicle to support young people in low-income urban areas. The case discusses his path to pursue meaningful work and his reflections on the... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Happiness; Well-being; Work-Life Balance; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Business Startups; Sports; Education; Mission and Purpose; Education Industry; Sports Industry; Service Industry; United States; Boston; Detroit
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  • 20 Oct 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details
  • August 2005 (Revised December 2005)
  • Case

Coach K: A Matter of the Heart

By: Scott A. Snook, Leslie A. Perlow and Brian DeLacey
Successful college basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski faces the decision whether to accept a lucrative offer to coach a professional basketball team or continue to coach at Duke University. Provides a context for discussing various styles of power, influence, and... View Details
Keywords: Power and Influence; Strategic Planning; Decisions; Personal Development and Career; Interpersonal Communication; Management Teams; Goals and Objectives; Decision Choices and Conditions; Sports Industry; North Carolina
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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

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Directors (also listed under General Management) Lynn Paine Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA Leslie Perlow Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) Ryan Raffaelli Spring 2026... View Details
  • March 2021
  • Article

Experimenting During the Shift to Virtual Team Work: Learnings from How Teams Adapted Their Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Ashley V. Whillans, Leslie Perlow and Aurora Turek
Past research has focused on understanding the characteristics of work that are fully virtual or fully collocated. The present study seeks to expand our understanding of team work by studying knowledge workers' experiences as they were suddenly forced to transition to... View Details
Keywords: Team Work; Activities; Virtual Work; Digital Technologies; Groups and Teams; Health Pandemics; Internet and the Web; Adaptation
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

(everything from Alpine racing to slopestyle), as well as creating a pipeline of young athletes and increasing the accessibility of snow sports. Crafting Your Life: Are You Living Consistent with What Matters Most to You? Faculty:Professor Leslie View Details
  • August 2005 (Revised December 2005)
  • Case

Coach Knight: The Will to Win

By: Scott A. Snook, Leslie A. Perlow and Brian DeLacey
Successful college basketball coach Bob Knight was fired from his long-time role as basketball coach at Indiana University and hired in the same role at Texas Tech. Considers these events in the context of his long career and provides a context for discussing various... View Details
Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Selection and Staffing; Leadership Style; Situation or Environment; Power and Influence; Sports; Indiana; Texas
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  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Students craft their post-HBS lives

thought-provoking exercise,” says Leslie Perlow, “but it leaves them with lots and lots of questions.” Those questions inspired Perlow to develop a new second-year elective called Crafting Your Life. “The course was created primarily by... View Details