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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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  • 12 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?

I’m not just a professor and business consultant; I’m also a parent to two kids. As I’ve often mused, the challenges leaders face at home and at work aren’t necessarily all that different. In particular, both contexts View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Air Transportation
  • January 2013
  • Case

Andrew Ryan at VC Brakes

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Sunru Yong
An aftermarket brake component manufacturer, VC Brakes, is bought out by a global automotive parts corporation after the 2008 financial crisis. Unlike its previous parent company, the new owner attempts to change VC Brakes' autocratic management style and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Quality Management; Crisis Management; Human Resource Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Quality; Change Management; Leading Change; Restructuring; Management Practices and Processes; Problems and Challenges; Auto Industry
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Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility

By: Michela Carlana and Marco Tabellini
We study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930. Using a shift-share design, we find that natives living in cities that received more immigrants were more likely to marry, have children,... View Details
Keywords: Immigration; Demographics; History; Employment
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  • April 1988 (Revised July 1989)
  • Case

Precista Tools AG (A)

A young woman manager in a Swiss family firm finds that her role as a managing director becomes bitterly unpleasant once her older brother decides to leave an engineering career and join the family business. That is what the father, who was head of the business had... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Gender Characteristics; Switzerland
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  • August 2009 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

Intel NBI: Radio-Frequency Identification

By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
The Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) group was a start-up that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives. It sought initially to develop and sell a high performance Rf fast read rate module targeted at fixed position readers that might be found in loading docks... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Structure; Failure; Diversification; Integration; Semiconductor Industry
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  • May 2003 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Carol Fishman Cohen: Professional Career Reentry (A)

By: Myra M. Hart, Robin J. Ely and Susan Wojewoda
Explores the career challenges facing highly successful women who leave the full-time workforce for several years to manage family commitments. Carol Cohen is a 1985 Harvard MBA who has professional line experience in a manufacturing environment, followed by a... View Details
Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships
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  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

in-state tuition among parents of near-college-age children, who may internalize the cost of their children’s education but are less likely to be attending college themselves. Using state budget surpluses and shortfalls as an instrument... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

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

employment, and points to some surprising new developments for working moms. Despite all the upheaval, the changes aren’t all bad. “Children got to see how their moms and dads managed to be good parents and good employees at the same... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 24 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World

backroom of a Vermont saloon in 1898, Wilson was drawn to drinking after his parents divorced, leaving him with grandparents and a deep insecurity that he didn’t belong. Driven and charismatic, but falling... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

understand why they’re not showing up?” says Fuller, who co-chairs the Project on the Workforce at Harvard. The good news: As more leaders move into the sandwich generation and care for aging parents while raising children, the more... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 02 Apr 2024
  • What Do You Think?

What's Enough to Make Us Happy?

leave the world a better place than they found it. For example, an inspiring acquaintance, Jack Bogle—founder of the Vanguard Group, comprising over $8 trillion in funds placed there by investors, and author of a book entitled Enough—died... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

61 percent of part-time employees caring for parents or an elderly family member were women. Three steps toward a new path for caregivers What can change? Plenty. Fuller’s team found that, in all cases, increased flexibility and robust... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

imprints: the founder's own, direct work experience, as well as the indirect influence of parental work experiences and professional education. Our findings further suggest that the effects of direct imprinting are strongest from the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 20 Aug 2020
  • Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

Spar: The causality goes through a couple phases. If you think about what happened to women in the 20th century, the automobile gave women the mobility to leave the home and go to the city or town and do tasks or a job. The automobile... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Feb 2018
  • Research & Ideas

When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

opportunity to redouble their efforts and grab more market share, or take it as a warning that it might be time to get out while the getting was good? A new research study suggests that more companies than expected see a half-empty glass when a direct competitor exits... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

positions were significantly more likely than others to repatriate dividends to parent companies in the United States. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18107 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

sought out meaningful conversations with trusted others, relying on regular calls to their parents or turning to a colleague who, as one manager said, is “the kind of person you go see when you need to talk something through, so you go to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

ferrantraite The Muslim ban. The Wall. Children separated from their parents at the Mexican border. The past two years have seen an aggressive push by the Trump administration against both legal and illegal immigration. But it’s not just... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

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