Work-life balance

Manage the competing demands of working motherhood. As a working mother, you often draw the short straw. You carry most of the burden of caregiving and...

You're only one person--but you're not alone. As a single parent, you know your life is different from the other working parents around you. With the...

In the spring of 2005, an exhausted Philip McCrea, president and CEO of software development company VitesseLearning, reflects on the demands of his successful...

All the advice you need to succeed as a first-time working parent. The year after having your first baby can be one of the most challenging and disorienting...

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Everything you need to have a successful career and be the dad you want to be. Finally, we've moved past the days when providing for your family meant...

Build your careers, your family, and your life--together. When you're part of a two-career family, you manage the competing demands of your careers, child-rearing,...

This case describes the rise of Dwight (Ike) Eisenhower from a small town in Kansas to the pinnacle of power on the world stage. During his life, Eisenhower...

Stop searching for purpose. Build it. We're living through a crisis of purpose. Surveys indicate that people are feeling less connected to the meaning...

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...

Lead your hybrid team to success. The strictly nine-to-five office routine no longer exists, and you may be managing a team that works in several different...

Inspiring conversations, advancing together. The HBR Women at Work series spotlights the real challenges and opportunities women experience throughout...

Build a mentally healthy workplace. Mental health is just as important as physical health. Yet being honest about depression, anxiety, and other psychological...

"Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" traces the history of women in management from the early 20th to early 21st century through analysis...

World-renowned researcher and "New York Times" bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we're at our best--both at work and in life....

Executive Chris Ernst uses a unique personal strategy to define his six life roles (spiritual explorer, natural being, development pioneer, global/local...

How to be human at work. HBR's Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of...

I'm not here to make work friends. Or am I? Managers, peers, work friends, mentors, frenemies, annoying people, romantic interests, your boss's boss,...

Why it's different from other flex time arrangements.

If you don't, you're leaving money (and your health) on the table.

The difference between living life and leading life is more than just semantics.

Netflix showed that it just takes trust.

Mo Gawdat, founder of One Billion Happy and former Chief Business Officer at Google’s X, spent years working in technological innovation. At Google’s so-called “dream factory,” he learned how to operationalize moonshot ventures aiming to solve some of the world’s hardest problems. But then a personal tragedy — the loss of his son — set him on a new path. Gawdat launched a startup with the moonshot goal of helping one billion people find happiness. Gawdat is also the author of “Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy.”

Good news for women in jobs that demand supersized time commitments.

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Don't let it burn you out.

Research makes a new case for using your paid time off.

Know what you’re entitled to — and what to plan for.