Publications

October 2019
Case

Mia Mends

By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble

October 2018
Case

Phuc Huynh and Teach for Vietnam (A)

By: Leslie Perlow and Eunice Eun

This Harvard Business School case is about Harvard Kennedy School graduate, Phuc Huynh, who wants to establish Teach for Vietnam (TFV) in his home country and become an official Teach for All partner. It considers the concepts of giving back in one’s career and the... View Details

Keywords: Vietnam; Giving Back; Career Decisions; Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Mission and Purpose; Leadership Development; Education Industry; Viet Nam; Asia

1997
Chapter

The Senseless Submergence of Difference: Engineers, Their Work and Their Careers

By: Leslie Perlow and L. Bailyn

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Working Conditions; Engineering

September 2003 (Revised October 2003)
Teaching Note

Versity.com (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-403-132), (9-403-133), and (9-403-134). View Details

September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
Compilation

Max Green: Work Patterns at Ditto (C)

According to his managers, Max, a software engineer on a product development team, is an organizational superstar. Describes his life and provides a log of how Max spends his time. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Time Management; Groups and Teams; Work-Life Balance; Information Technology Industry

February 2003 (Revised September 2003)
Case

Howie Cohen at Versity.com

Howie Cohen is Versity.com's founder. This case provides a behind-the-scenes look at his thoughts and feelings about his company's evolution as they expand across the country and bring in a professional management team. View Details

Keywords: Leadership

February 2003 (Revised October 2003)
Case

Peter Jacobs at Versity.com

Peter Jacobs is Versity.com's new professional CEO. This case provides a behind-the-scenes look at his thoughts and feelings about the company's evolution as he takes charge and tries to establish a new direction for the company. View Details

Keywords: Perspective; Growth and Development Strategy; Planning; Leadership; Management Teams

April 2010
Case

George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (A)

By: Leslie A. Perlow and Kerry Herman

George Martin, managing partner at The Boston Consulting Group, is worried as some of his best performers have recently pulled him aside to discuss the challenges they face managing the demands of their work lives with their desire for more predictable time with their... View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Work-Life Balance; Management Teams; Interpersonal Communication; Jobs and Positions; Employees; Consulting Industry; Boston

September 2003 (Revised October 2003)
Teaching Note

Cat is out of the Bag, The: Kana and the Layoff Gone Awry (TN) (A), (B), and (C)

By: Leslie A. Perlow and David Ager

Teaching Note for (9-403-117), (9-403-118), and (9-403-119). View Details

August 2024
Case

Melissa Landry Koller

By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman

December 2023
Case

Gabriela Santana Goldstein

By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman

Gabriela Santana Goldstein was pursuing her passion, working as the Head of Business for a telehealth startup, when her father went into sudden cardiac arrest and family duty called. The case discusses Goldstein’s difficult decision to leave her dream job, and her path... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Well-being; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Decisions; Health Industry; United States; Boston; New York (city, NY)

October 2021
Case

Luke Fuszard

By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble

Luke Fuszard (MBA 2010) shares the personal details of his life leading up to the moment when he was unexpectedly fired from his job in early 2021. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Wisconsin

October 2019
Case

Jessica Deckinger (MBA 2008)

By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble

Summer 2025
Article

Time Well Spent: A New Way to Value Time Could Change Your Life

By: Leslie Perlow and Salvatore J Affinito

When individuals engage in fulfilling activities outside of work, they perform better on the job, but simply encouraging work-life balance doesn’t help with hour-by-hour time management. A new tool for measuring the subjective value of time for individuals as it varies... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Work-Life Balance; Time Management

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October 2020
Background Note

Developmental Relationships

By: Ting Zhang and Leslie A. Perlow

This background note introduces readers to a new framework--the ASCEND model--through which individuals can view their professional developmental relationships. View Details

Keywords: Professional Development; Relationships; Framework; Personal Development and Career

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

the Smartphone Addiction Published: May 14, 2012 In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Leslie Perlow explains how high-powered consultants disconnected from their mobile devices for a few hours every week-and how they became... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

February 2014
Article

Toward a Model of Work Redesign for Better Work and Better Life

By: Leslie A. Perlow and Erin L. Kelly

Flexible work accommodations provided by employers purport to help individuals struggling to manage work and family demands. The underlying model for change is accommodation—helping individuals accommodate their work demands with no changes in the structure of work or... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Work-Life Balance

August 2024
Case

Amrit Jalan

By: Leslie A. Perlow and Hannah Weisman

February 2004
Case

New HP, The: The Clean Room and Beyond

By: Leslie A. Perlow and Elizabeth Kind

When the $19 billion merger of Silicon Valley legend Hewlett-Packard and Houston-based PC giant Compaq Computer Corp. legally closed on May 3, 2002, both companies had already devoted an immense amount of time preparing for the challenges that lay ahead. Chief among... View Details

Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Management Teams; Management Style; Problems and Challenges; Employees; Organizational Culture; Computer Industry; San Francisco