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When Should You Tell Your Boss You're Pregnant?

Harvard Business Review

An interview with Tiziana Casciaro and Lotte Bailyn on the HBR case study When to Make Private News Public. Tiziana is an assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Rotman School of Management and Lotte is the author of Breaking the Mold: Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives.

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How to Manage Your Star Employee

Harvard Business Review

Group dynamics are another concern when you have a standout performer on your team, says Mary Shapiro, who teaches organizational behavior at Simmons College and wrote the HBR Guide to Leading Teams. Case Study #1: Encourage your star to seek out learning opportunities both inside and outside your organization.

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How to Negotiate Your Parental Leave

Harvard Business Review

Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School of Public Policy and Tepper School of Business and author of I-Deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Workers Bargain for Themselves. Case study #1 — Lead the way. Case study #2 — To get what you want, you have to ask.

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