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      How to Thrive While Leading a Family Business
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      • January 28, 2021
      • Article

      How to Build a Life: There Are Two Kinds of Happy People

      By: Arthur C. Brooks
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      Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: There Are Two Kinds of Happy People." The Atlantic (January 28, 2021).
      • March–April 2020
      • Article

      What's Really Holding Women Back? It's Not What Most People Think

      By: R. Ely and Irene Padavic
      Ask people to explain why women remain so dramatically underrepresented in the senior ranks of most companies, and you will hear from the vast majority a lament that goes something like this: High-level jobs require extremely long hours, women's devotion to family...  View Details
      Keywords: Overwork; Employment; Gender; Equality And Inequality; work-life balance; Organizational Culture
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      Ely, R., and Irene Padavic. "What's Really Holding Women Back? It's Not What Most People Think." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 2 (March–April 2020): 58–67.
      • March 2014
      • Article

      Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life

      By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
      Work/life balance is at best an elusive ideal and at worst a complete myth, today's senior executives will tell you. But by making deliberate choices about which opportunities they'll pursue and which they'll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders...  View Details
      Keywords: work-life balance; Management Teams
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 3 (March 2014): 58–66.
      • April 2010
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      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
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      Perlow, Leslie A., and Kerry Herman. "George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 410-112, April 2010.
      • April 2010
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      George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (B)

      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: Employees; work-life balance; Problems And Challenges; Consulting Industry
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      Perlow, Leslie A., and Kerry Herman. "George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 410-117, April 2010.
      • April 2010 (Revised May 2010)
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      George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (C)

      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: work-life balance; Problems And Challenges; Employees
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      Perlow, Leslie A., and Kerry Herman. "George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 410-118, April 2010. (Revised May 2010.)
      • December 2007 (Revised February 2012)
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      John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life

      By: Howard H. Stevenson, Janet Kraus and Shirley Spence
      The case follows the professional and personal lives of John and Andrea Rice, illustrating the challenge of "juggling" the multiple aspects of life (career, family, community, self) in the pursuit of a personal vision of success. Particular attention is paid to the...  View Details
      Keywords: For-profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; work-life balance; family And family Relationships; Nonprofit Organizations
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      Stevenson, Howard H., Janet Kraus, and Shirley Spence. "John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life." Harvard Business School Case 808-042, December 2007. (Revised February 2012.)
      • September 2005
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      Martha Goldberg Aronson: Leadership Decisions at Mid-Career

      By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
      In 2005, Martha Goldberg Aronson must decide whether to accept an overseas posting in a functional role with Medtronic Corp. The move would be a professional stretch, but would entail leaving a position with a plan half completed and moving her young family overseas....  View Details
      Keywords: Decisions; work-life balance; Personal Development And Career; Motivation And Incentives; Opportunities; Leadership
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      George, William W., and Andrew N. McLean. "Martha Goldberg Aronson: Leadership Decisions at Mid-Career." Harvard Business School Case 406-017, September 2005.
      • September 2005 (Revised August 2008)
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      Philip McCrea: Once an Entrepreneur...(A)

      By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
      In the spring of 2005, an exhausted Philip McCrea, president and CEO of software development company VitesseLearning, reflects on the demands of his successful start-up and his desire to be closer to his growing family. Profiles the youth, career, family life,...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development And Career; family And family Relationships; Opportunities; Motivation And Incentives
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      George, William W., and Andrew N. McLean. "Philip McCrea: Once an Entrepreneur...(A)." Harvard Business School Case 406-018, September 2005. (Revised August 2008.)
      • November 2003 (Revised August 2006)
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      Union Corrugating Company (B)

      By: Paul W. Marshall and Julia Stevens
      Lauri Union, president of Union Corrugating Co., has successfully transformed her family's corrugated steel roofing and siding manufacturer into a successful enterprise. Reviews how Union turned the struggling company around and also considers the management structure...  View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Competition; work-life balance; Success; Change Management; Management Systems; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Boston; North Carolina
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      Marshall, Paul W., and Julia Stevens. "Union Corrugating Company (B)." Harvard Business School Case 804-003, November 2003. (Revised August 2006.)
      • May 2003 (Revised March 2006)
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      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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      Hart, Myra M., Robin J. Ely, and Susan Wojewoda. "Carol Fishman Cohen: Professional Career Reentry (A)." Harvard Business School Case 803-185, May 2003. (Revised March 2006.)
      • May 2003 (Revised March 2006)
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      Carol Fishman Cohen: Professional Career Reentry (B)

      By: Myra M. Hart, Robin J. Ely and Susan Wojewoda
      Supplements the (A) case.  View Details
      Keywords: work-life balance; family And family Relationships
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      Hart, Myra M., Robin J. Ely, and Susan Wojewoda. "Carol Fishman Cohen: Professional Career Reentry (B)." Harvard Business School Case 803-186, May 2003. (Revised March 2006.)
      • June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
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      Tradeoffs: Juggling Careers in Professional Services Firms with Private Life

      By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda, Scot Landry and Scott M O'Neil
      Balancing professional and private lives continues to challenge single and committed partners alike. Professionals are expected to work long hours. It is simply part of the ethos of professional service firms. This case focuses on the lives of three couples connected...  View Details
      Keywords: work-life balance; family And family Relationships; Problems And Challenges; Service Industry
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      DeLong, Thomas J., Ashish Nanda, Scot Landry, and Scott M O'Neil. "Tradeoffs: Juggling Careers in Professional Services Firms with Private Life." Harvard Business School Case 801-463, June 2001. (Revised May 2002.)
      • May 1990 (Revised April 1995)
      • Teaching Note

      Karen Green, Teaching Note

      By: Linda A. Hill
      The video depicts Karen Green, a manager in her early thirties, on a company retreat. She is being considered for a project manager position, a promotion she does not receive. During the retreat, the circumstances that influenced the decision become evident. The...  View Details
      Keywords: work-life balance; Personal Development And Career; Gender; Power And Influence
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      Hill, Linda A. "Karen Green, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-095, May 1990. (Revised April 1995.)
      • September 1989
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      Steve Shirley

      By: Shoshana Zuboff
      Traces the career development of a well-known British entrepreneur who, as a young girl, was forced to flee the Nazi's occupation of Central Europe. Details her early work experiences in the heavily male dominated workplace of post-war Britain and follows the...  View Details
      Keywords: work-life balance; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Great Britain
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      Zuboff, Shoshana. "Steve Shirley." Harvard Business School Case 490-004, September 1989.
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      Work/family

      By: D. Quinn Mills
      I have just published, in 2004, a book on how professionals might manage the challenge of balancing work and family demands. The book is oriented not at the problem, which is often dealt with in publications by others, but with six steps for dealing with it.  View Details
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