Work life balance

It takes more than self-discipline to prevent burnout. You need to rely on others.

The pandemic has led to mental health declines, increased work demands, and feelings of loneliness. But the news isn't all bad.

Breaking up your day by going outside can boost your mood, brainpower, and creativity.

Don’t reserve your best business thinking for your career.

A research-based approach to building a positive outlook.

How to leave work at the door when you don’t leave the house.

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 five-step approach to identify and overcome unhealthy work habits.

Five strategies can help.

Evaluating the pros and cons

Some executives thrive under pressure. Others wilt. Is the reason all in their heads? Hardly. Sustained high achievement demands physical and emotional strength as well as a sharp intellect. To bring mind, body, and spirit to peak condition, executives need to learn what world-class athletes already know: recovering energy is as important as expending it.

Naming them is an important first step.

Try really hard, and then stop, recover, and repeat.

Companies recruit overachievers, then exploit their insecurity.

Let’s leave sad desk lunches in 2020.

How to tell if you have it and what to do about it.

You can't flex-time your way out of the problem.

In "Do We Really Need the Office?" HBR editor Gretchen Gavett introduces the forced work-from-home experiment many are a part of in the wake of Covid-19....

The modern workplace may have made progress toward achieving work-life balance, but many issues remain. They include stress on the job, the underutilized...

When you’re stuck on a problem, it often helps to step back and look at the bigger picture. You see things differently and discover new solutions. What I ask participants in my Total Leadership program to do is take the “four-way view” – the interaction among work, home, community, and self – and come up […]

In 2018, Mellody Hobson, President of Ariel Investments, the largest minority-owned investment firm in the U.S., was considering how best to divide her...

Balancing professional and private lives continues to challenge single and committed partners alike. Professionals are expected to work long hours. It...

Stop juggling and start managing everything you need to do at home and at work. It used to be simple before kids: Say yes to everything, stay late, turn...

Su Yee Goh, a director in a Singapore office, considers a proposal by a pregnant female executive for an alternative work arrangement so that she could...

The business of surrogacy, a boutique practice with client costs upwards of $100,000, allowed couples and individuals from a variety of backgrounds, ages,...

This case illustrates the leadership and management challenges of starting a new firm based on a new business model and how success creates pressures...

This case pairing was designed for use in the Darden School's Global MBA for Executives program in the core Leadership and Organizations course and is...

Presents profiles written by six members of the HBS Class of 1976 from the 10th and 20th reunions. The six alumni represent a cross section of the class...

Get your best work done, no matter where you do it. Video calls from your couch. Project reports in a coffee shop. Presentations at your kitchen table....

As the Montgomery Bus Boycott starts, the young Martin Luther King Jr. faces challenges to his leadership goals, strategic vision, and personal and family...

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Very little has been written about women business leaders in the Middle East. Fatima Al Jaber is the Chief Operating Officer of a multibillion-dollar...

In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his...

Reviews the purposes and ingredients in the governance (or steering) of a family business system. Explores at a high level the governance of the family...

The dynamics of a work relationship between an entrepreneurial mother and her daughter are explored.

An intern has completed her summer internship as Brussels and Bradshaw (B&B), an investment bank in Toronto, Ontario. She now faces her final performance...

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In October 2005 Andrea Jung is coping with a 30% decline in Avon's stock price--the biggest test of her leadership since she became CEO in 2000.

Well-known film producer Peter Guber must decide whether to commit to a time-consuming personal project. He is about to sign a contract for a business...

Adam Root, for as long as he could remember, wanted to be a doctor like his father. As a single parent, his father raised four children. Root idolized...

It takes more than self-discipline to prevent burnout. You need to rely on others.

The pandemic has led to mental health declines, increased work demands, and feelings of loneliness. But the news isn't all bad.

Breaking up your day by going outside can boost your mood, brainpower, and creativity.

Don’t reserve your best business thinking for your career.

A research-based approach to building a positive outlook.

How to leave work at the door when you don’t leave the house.

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 five-step approach to identify and overcome unhealthy work habits.

Five strategies can help.

Evaluating the pros and cons