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- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
contractors they can work 20 hours per week and still get paid for 40. “Work is not the only thing on people’s minds right now. Their families, their bills, childcare and school closures, the economy we are all trying to manage a lot,”...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
choices, be efficient, spend a lot of money on childcare (pre Covid...) and set up a lot of help, and sadly, deprioritize sleep and exercise. Funny HBS moment: In class one afternoon I was in pain from contractions, they were not real...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
admission to HBS for two years while she worked in human resources for General Electric. She eventually matriculated at HBS, deftly juggling classes and childcare for her two young children. Fudge has spent a significant amount of time...
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Andrea Kimmel
banking prior to HBS and then led to consumer and retail brand marketing and finally to the start-up she began in the childcare industry in 2011 which she has grown to 2 locations and soon to be a franchise. Work Experience: Deutsche...
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- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
fewer hours working on research. Another 27 percent reported no change and 18 percent said they were working more. The hidden effects of childcare So “‘shelter at home’ is not the same as ‘work from home,’” the researchers write. They...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
center-based, on-demand childcare company, was in search of unique funding models to fuel its expansion beyond two existing locations. Too small for private equity, in a sector that doesn’t attract VCs, and without enough of a track...
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- 11 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact
EquaLife Group, a start-up dedicated to “building and creating consumer-related businesses” in Africa. Five employees work at the holding group level; an additional fifteen run its leading current venture, Little Steps Childcare Centers....
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Entrepreneurship
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed with its planned U.S. expansion. Kids & Company already has five...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
do things better on the other side. In our sector, particularly on the early childcare side, the crisis is showing how essential those programs are—not only for child development, but also for families to be able to work. I can envision...
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Susan Young
- 04 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Motherhood and the MBA
in Boston? Boston has some of the highest childcare costs in the country. Wait lists for daycare can be over a year-long. It is imperative that you look into daycare as soon as you are even considering coming to HBS (especially if...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
son's childcare - all while launching a new company!" After graduation, Small plans to move into another family-related field: health care. "It's a complicated industry that increasingly appreciates a business perspective," she says. She...
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Linda Goodspeed
- Profile
John Speer
and Wolfgang (1). With the kids’ enrollment at the HBS childcare facility on Soldiers Field Park, “it feels like all three of us attend Harvard,” John says. “They’re in preschool just 200 yards from my classroom. It’s fantastic. We all...
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- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
In the Business of Flexibility
level of talent within their budget. The firm is simultaneously mobilizing a part of the workforce—those with a need or a desire for flexible arrangements due to childcare responsibilities or other factors—that might otherwise be left on...
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Being a Student Mom at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
time to start talking about how childcare is an economic issue. The No. 1 reason why women are either downshifting their careers or not returning to the workforce is because childcare is either too expensive...
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Financial Aid - HBS Fund Investors Society 2021 Report
new scholarships in 2020 in response to the evolving needs of students. A COVID Hardship Fund helped students whose financial circumstances were negatively affected by the pandemic, and a Childcare Scholarship was piloted to help families...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
can’t solve this problem, she says, adding that some public policy initiatives need to be implemented, along with paid childcare and more flexible workplaces. Ackerley is passionate about closing the gender pension gap and furthering...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Business School Case 918-007 Increasing Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: The United Kingdom in 2011 (B) No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/918007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-075 Poppy: A Modern Village for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
Lynda Clarizio Every woman who works and has a life confronts unique challenges, from finding reliable and caring childcare to making time to nurture the relationship with their spouse or partner to fighting their own guilt and...
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by Wendy Guild
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
Miwa Seki (left) and Yumiko Murakami Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui shared the same birthday month and year, so they started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic: The women had...
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