Stewart Friedman
- Emeritus Practice Professor of Management
- Director, Wharton Work/Life Integration Project and Founding Director, Wharton Leadership Program
Contact Information
- Primary Email:
friedman@wharton.upenn.edu - Office Phone:
(215) 898-8618
- office Address:
3031 SH-DH
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Research Interests: leadership development, work/life integration, dynamics of change
Links: CV, Total Leadership, Work and Life Podcast, HBR Digital Articles, LinkedIn, Twitter @StewFriedman, Work/Life Integration Project, MOOC: Leading the Life You Want
Overview
Stew Friedman is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been on the faculty since 1984 and since 2019 is emeritus. He worked for five years in the mental health field before earning his PhD from the University of Michigan. In 1991, as founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program (now called the McNulty Leadership Program), he initiated the School’s core leadership courses, including the Learning Teams. A few years later, he launched the Leadership Fellows. More recently, he cofounded Wharton’s P3: Purpose, Passion, Principles — a co-curricular experience run collaboratively by students, faculty, and administrators. He also founded Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project in 1991.
Friedman has been recognized by the biennial Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers repeatedly since 2011. He was honored with its 2015 Distinguished Achievement Award as the world’s #1 expert in talent management and was inducted in its Hall of Fame in 2023. He was listed among HR Magazine’s most influential thought leaders, chosen by Working Mother as one of America’s most influential men who have made life better for working parents, and presented with the Families and Work Institute’s Work Life Legacy Award.
While on leave from Wharton for two-and-a-half years, Friedman ran a 50-person department as the senior executive for leadership development at Ford Motor Company. In partnership with the CEO, he launched a corporate-wide portfolio of initiatives designed to transform Ford’s culture; 2500+ managers per year participated. Near the end of his tenure at Ford, an independent research group (ICEDR) said the Leadership Development Center was a “global benchmark” for companies striving to accelerate the growth of their people. At Ford, he created Total Leadership, which has been a popular Wharton course since 2001 and is used by individuals and companies worldwide, including as a primary intervention in a multi-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health on improving the careers and lives of women in medicine and by 135,000+ students in Friedman’s first MOOC on Coursera. Participants in this program complete an intensive series of challenging exercises that increase their leadership capacity, performance, and well-being in all parts of life, while working in peer-to-peer coaching relationships.
His research is widely cited, including among Harvard Business Review‘s “Ideas that Shaped Management,” and he has written two bestselling books, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (2008) and Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life (2014), now being taught as a MOOC on Coursera. His third Harvard Business Press book was Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life (2020). In 2024, Wharton School Press published a new edition of his landmark study of two generations of Wharton students, Baby Bust, 10th Anniversary Edition: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family. Work and Family – Allies or Enemies? (2000) was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the field’s best books. In Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide (1998) Stew edited the first collection of learning tools for building leadership skills for integrating work and life.
Winner of many teaching awards, he appears regularly in business media (The New York Times cited the “rock star adoration” he inspires in his students). Friedman serves on a number of boards and is an in-demand speaker, consultant, coach, workshop leader, public policy advisor (to the U.S. Departments of Labor and State, the United Nations, and two White House administrations), and advocate for family-supportive policies in the private sector. Follow on Twitter @StewFriedman and LinkedIn, read his 50+ digital articles HBR.org, and tune in to his podcast Work and Life with Stew Friedman (since 2014).
Research
Stewart Friedman, Baby Bust, 10th Anniversary Edition: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family (Philadelphia, PA: Wharton School Press, 2024)
Abstract: Ten years ago a groundbreaking cross-generational study revealed that greater freedom and new constraints were leading fewer young people to choose parenthood. In the intervening years, the decision to have a family has not gotten easier.
Description: Stew Friedman, founding director of The Wharton School's Work/Life Integration Project, studied two generations of Wharton college students as they graduated: Gen Xers in 1992 and Millennials in 2012. The cross-generational study produced a stark discovery—the rate of graduates who planned to have children had dropped by nearly half over those 20 years. While some might wonder what this privileged group can tell us about broader trends in the United States, Friedman argues that they were “the canaries in the coal mine. . . . if they could not see a way to make their careers and families work, how could those with fewer opportunities and resources square this circle?” In a new preface to this 10th anniversary edition of Baby Bust, Friedman observes that the birth rate in the United States has continued to decline in the years since. He offers new insights into why fewer people are choosing to have children, how the pandemic affected these trends, and what can be done about it. In this book, Friedman addresses: + How views about work and family have changed; + Why men and women have different reasons for opting out of parenthood; + How family has been redefined; + What choices we face in our social and educational policy; and + How organizations and individuals—especially men—can spur cultural change. In the debates on work and family, people of all generations are calling for a reasoned, thoughtful, research-driven contribution to the discussion. In Baby Bust, Friedman offers just that: an astute assessment of how far we have come and where we go from here.
Stewart Friedman and Alyssa Westring, Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life (: Harvard Business Press, 2020)
Liat Eldor, Alyssa Westring, Stewart Friedman (2019), The indirect effect of holistic career values on work engagement: a longitudinal study spanning two decades, Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 12 (), pp. 144-165. doi:10.1111/aphw.12177
Jeane Ann Grisso, Mary Dupuis Sammel, Arthur Rubenstein, Rebecca M. Speck, Emily F. Conant, Patricia Scott, Lucy Wolf Tuton, Alyssa Westring, Stewart Friedman, Stephanie Abbuhl (2017), A randomized controlled trial to improve the success of women assistant professors, Journal of Women's Health.
Stewart Friedman and Alyssa Westring (2015), Helping Fathers Flourish in All Parts of Their Lives, Flourishing in Life Work and Careers.
Stewart Friedman and Alyssa Westring (2015), Empowering individuals to integrate work and life: insights for management development, Journal of Management Development, 34 (3).
Stewart Friedman (2014), Implications of the Revolution in Work and Family, Reinventing the Company in the Digital Age.
Stewart Friedman, Leading The Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and LIfe (: Harvard Business Press, 2014)
Stewart Friedman (2014), Work + Home + Community + Self, Harvard Business Review.
Stewart Friedman, Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family (: Wharton School Press, 2013)
Teaching
All Courses
MGMT6710 - Executive Leadership
Despite the business world’s obsession with leadership, what it takes to be an effective leader is often not commonly understood nor commonly practiced. In this course, the focus is on growing the student's capacity as a leader. Students will learn practical and customized lessons about how to improve their performance and results at work. We use the evidence from the science of leadership and teams to understand the key tactics and principles that will enable students to better lead others as they strive to attain shared goals. We will cover topics such as leadership effectiveness, adaptive leadership, empowering leadership as well as how to motivate, inspire, and lead teams effectively (e.g., decision making, coordination, coaching). This course offers students the opportunity to learn and practice the skills needed to become better leaders, now and in the future.
MGMT8900 - Advanced Study-Ind
Awards and Honors
- Thinkers50 Hall of Fame, 2023
- Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2021-2022
- Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2017-2018
- William G. Whitney Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2017
- Thinkers50: The World’s Top 50 Business Thinkers, 2017
- HR Magazine Most Influential Thinkers, 2017
- William G. Whitney Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2016
- Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award for the World’s Top Thinker in the Field of Talent, 2015
- HR Magazine Most Influential Thinkers, 2015
- Axiom Business Book Award, 2015
- CEO Read Business Books Best Seller, 2014
- Wall Street Journal Business Books Best Seller, 2014
- HR Magazine Most Influential Thinkers, 2014
- Thinkers50: The World’s Top 50 Business Thinkers, 2013
- Families and Work Institute’s Work Life Legacy Award, 2013
- Top Professors on Twitter in Leadership, 2012
- Thinkers50: The World’s Top 50 Business Thinkers, 2011
- Excellence in Teaching Award: Core Curriculum, 2011
- TotalLeadership.org Named one of Forbes’ Top Websites for Women, 2010
- William G. Whitney Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2007
- MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 1996
- Outstanding Teaching Award, Undergraduate Evening School, 1993
- Outstanding Teaching Award, Undergraduate Division, 1990
In the News
- Glassdoor’s CEO refuses to work in front of his kids, and will head to his home office before he answers calls around them., Fortune - 11/29/2024 Description
More than 20 years ago Stewart D. Friedman, an organizational psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, conducted a search of 900 business professionals and their relationships with their children.
Of course, this was before social media, the iPhone, smartwatches, and—for many homes—WiFi.So, in 2018, in an article for the Harvard Business Review, the emeritus practice professor revisited his research to examine how it may have become even more relevant.
Friedman found that factors such as parents’ discretion over work, control over workload, and the psychological interference of employment in family life all correlated with children’s behavior.
“A father’s cognitive interference of work on family and relaxation time—that is, a father’s psychological availability, or presence, which is noticeably absent when he is on his digital device—was linked with children having emotional and behavioral problems,” Friedman wrote.
The findings went deeper when it came to mothers. The study found that working moms who had authority and discretion around work had mentally healthier children.
However, what she did in her free time at home also impacted her offspring: “Mothers spending time on themselves—on relaxation and self-care—and not so much on housework, was associated with positive outcomes for children.
“It’s not just a matter of mothers being at home versus at work, it’s what they do when they’re at home with their non-work time,” Friedman added.
- Wharton faculty on investment strategies, birth rates, and climate change, Penn Today - 08/07/2024
- The New Work-Life Balance: Don’t Have Kids, Bloomberg - 02/04/2024
- This is part of the recipe for a good retirement, MarketWatch - 01/05/2024
- Adulting 101: How to navigate big decisions when your parents disapprove., Washington Post - 08/03/2023
- Grandparents can’t solve America’s child-care crisis., Bloomberg - 06/01/2023
- How you feel about your job affects how well you parents your kids., Washington Post - 02/16/2023
- Working long hours doesn’t harm your kids, but this surprisingly small behavior does, according to Wharton research., Inc. - 02/01/2023 Description
A new study should reassure parents who work long hours (and worry those who are distracted at home).
- Work-life balance is a myth, Financial Times - 11/20/2022 Description
Combat burnout by conducting your own stakeholder assessment
- ‘Overwhelmed, fragile, exhausted’: A youth mental-health crisis is crushing working parents. Employers need to pay attention, Business Insider - 04/13/2022
- Hating hybrid work? Here’s how to make it less painful., The Washington Post - 04/13/2022
- How remote working could be changing children’s futures, BBC - 02/24/2022
- The best employees curse, slack off, and aren’t afraid to wear sweatpants, Business Insider - 02/10/2022
- Want to raise emotionally healthy kids? Research shows how you spend time together matters more than the number of hours, Inc. - 01/27/2021
- Work-life balance finally happened. Then they were called back to the office., Wall Street Journal - 01/01/2021
- In a pandemic, every day is bring-your-child-to-work day, Bloomberg - 11/05/2020
- At work while at home: The new paradigm, Washington Post - 10/14/2020
- How employers can fix remote work, Yahoo News - 09/25/2020
- Convenience or dystopia? Work-from-home blend is here to stay., Christian Science Monitor - 09/04/2020
- Forget work-life balance — it’s all about integration in the age of Covid-19, NextGov - 05/18/2020
- Be a Better Leader and Have a Richer Life, Lead from the Heart Podcast with Mark C. Crowley - 05/08/2020
- Successful leaders’ mantra in times of crisis is just what working parents need right now, Working Mother - 05/01/2020
- Skills for working at home with children during lockdown, People Management - 04/24/2020
- Wading Through the Imperfect Mess of Parenthood, HBR Anxious Achiever Podcast - 04/20/2020
- Be the coronavirus boss working parents need, Bloomberg - 04/20/2020
- Parenting Through The Pandemic, Eat Move Think podcast - 04/20/2020
- How Working Parents Can Support One Another, Harvard Business Review - 04/17/2020
- The new reality…juggling work, kids, household stuff, Today's Kids - 04/16/2020
- On-The-Job Training for Parent/Leaders, Forbes - 04/16/2020
- How Four-Way Wins Can Improve Your Parenting Leadership, Forbes - 04/14/2020
- Are You A Parent? Then (For Better Or Worse) You’re A Leader, Forbes - 04/11/2020
- Stew Friedman and Dave Asprey on “Parents Who Lead”, Instagram Live - 04/10/2020
- Parenting Through the New Norm: Tips for Connecting With Your Kids During Stressful Times, Bullet Proof Radio - 04/08/2020
- Now Is a Great Time to Check Your Gender Biases at Home, Medium - 04/07/2020
- Now’s the Time to Talk to Your Boss About Work-Life Balance, Yahoo News - 04/07/2020
- Working from home during the pandemic, WHYY Radio Times - 04/02/2020
- Helping Working Parents Face Their Leadership Challenge, Life Science Leader - 04/01/2020
- How Successful Leaders Manage Their Home Lives, Forbes - 03/31/2020
- Working Parents, Let Go of the Idea of Balance, Harvard Business Review - 03/31/2020
- Top 26 Podcasts You Can Listen to About Work, Life & Balance, Balance the Grid - 03/19/2020
- Coronavirus: 5 ways to work from home with your kids (and stay sane), World Economic Forum - 03/18/2020
- How to convince your boss to let you work remotely on a regular basis, Business Insider - 03/17/2020
- Coronavirus just dropped white-collar workers in the middle of America’s biggest accidental experiment, Business Insider - 03/16/2020
- What are the rules of social distancing?, VOX - 03/15/2020
- How to Parent With Purpose & Fuel Your Career, The Learning Leader with Ryan Hawk - 03/15/2020
- Life and Leadership, Voice of America Out of the Comfort Zone with Wanda Walllace - 03/13/2020
- The Leadership Challenge for Working Parents, Psychology Today - 03/13/2020
- Parents Who Lead, 3, 2, 1, iRelaunch - 03/13/2020
- The Infinite Mystery of Children Is a Wondrous, Ever-Bountiful Source of Happiness, Happier with Gretchen Rubin - 03/12/2020
- 3 Strategies for Talking to Your Children About What Matters Most, Next Big Idea Club - 03/10/2020
- How Working Parents Can Prepare for Coronavirus Closures, Harvard Business Review - 03/10/2020
- Working Parents are Leaders, Council on Contemporary Families - 03/10/2020
- Parents Who Lead: An Interview with Stew Friedman, Daily Dad Podcast - 03/10/2020
- How to Talk to Your Kids About Politics in a Time of Sharp Division, Working Mother - 03/10/2020
- Parents Who Lead, with Stew Friedman, Best of Both Worlds podcast with Laura Vanderkam - 03/10/2020
- Working Parents Should Stop Net-Work-ing and Start Net-Life-ing, Thrive Global - 03/10/2020
- Stew Friedman: Parents Who Lead at Work and Home, Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney Johnson - 03/10/2020
- Stew Friedman on the Urgency of Leadership in Parenting, Elevate Podcast with Bob Glazer - 03/10/2020
- Bring the science of leadership to the art of parenting, Penn Today - 03/10/2020
- A podcast for working parents who are trying to balance it all while caring for the people they love — including themselves, Care.com Equal Parts Podcast - 03/10/2020
- Parents Who Lead, Peter Bregman Leadership Podcast - 03/09/2020
- To raise children who are resilient and optimistic, parents can use discussing coronavirus as an opportunity. Here’s how to get started., Business Insider - 03/06/2020
- How Working Parents Can Regain Control Over Their Lives, Harvard Business Review - 03/05/2020
- Worrying About ‘Work-Life Balance’ Can Be a Trap. Here’s What to Try Instead, TIME - 02/20/2020
- How to Address Mental Health In the Workplace, Women's Day - 01/21/2020
- In 2020, parents weigh how to talk politics, Christian Science Monitor - 01/14/2020
- 10 Experts on How to Be More Successful in Your Career and Relationships, Men's Journal - 01/04/2020
- For richer, for poorer: the couples in business together, Financial Times - 03/13/2019
- Looking For a Richer Life? Go For Four-Way Wins, Forbes - 02/10/2019
- Life ‘Balance’ Is Really More About Harmony, Forbes - 02/07/2019
- Launching Junior Faculty into Fulfilling Careers, Penn Today - 01/20/2019
- How Our Careers Affect Our Children, Harvard Business Review - 11/14/2018
- How Peer Coaching Can Make Work Less Lonely, Harvard Business - 10/12/2018
- Total Leadership: Improving Performance in All Parts of Life, SHRM People + Strategy - 10/03/2018
- 2018 Best MBAs: Natalie Neilson Edwards, Wharton School, Poets and Quants - 05/06/2018
- The 13 Best Podcasts For Dads, Fatherly - 03/28/2018
- Total Leadership: CEO-READ Business Bestseller, CEO-READ - 02/01/2018
- 5 Thought Leaders to Follow in 2018, Inc - 01/04/2018
- Best Free MOOCs in Business, Poets and Quants - 11/28/2017
- How Entrepreneurs Can Build A Business And Life A Sustainable Life, Forbes - 10/22/2017
- The Favorite Professors of Executive MBAs, Poets and Quants - 08/18/2017
- Want To Become A Better Leader At Work? Try Spending Less Time In The Office, Forbes - 08/03/2017
- How to Grow Your Career (And Your Company’s Bottom Line), Forbes - 07/18/2017
- Earning Power: Growth in pay is slower for women than for men, even if they go to college, study finds, CNBC - 06/03/2017
- Survey: How bosses explain organizational changes matters, WHYY - 05/25/2017
- The academics who study the secrets of work, Financial Times - 05/24/2017
- How People Decide Whether to Have Children, The Atlantic - 05/22/2017
- Paternity leave goes mainstream: Fatherly ranks 50 best companies for new dads, CNBC - 05/03/2017
- Is job-sharing a cop-out or the way to avoid burnout?, MarketWatch - 04/08/2017
- Childbirth for women in their 30s at 50-year high, Philadelphia Inquirer - 03/20/2017
- Why It’s Important to Schedule More Downtime for Your Brain, Shape - 03/15/2017
- Work-Life Balance: How Employers Can Step Up, Forbes - 03/09/2017
- 11 Best Podcasts For Dads, Fatherly - 03/06/2017
- This former Wall Street wolf is turning trading algorithms into fine art, CNBC - 01/31/2017
- Theories for the digitally distracted generation, Financial Times - 12/05/2016
- The Unexpected Political Influence Your Boss Has On Your Vote, Fast Company - 11/04/2016
- Great Performers Make Their Personal Lives a Priority, Harvard Business Review - 10/06/2016
- What to Do If Your Parents Are Causing Your Career Angst, Harvard Business Review - 08/05/2016
- Stewart D. Friedman, el guru del sentido comun, El Pais - 06/06/2016
- Que Es El Exito, Actualidad Economica - 06/01/2016
- How to Break Your Addiction to Work, Harvard Business Review - 05/18/2016
- Stewart D. Friedman: “Las personas tienen que trabajar menos para ser mas productivas”, ABC Economica - 04/04/2016
- Stewart Friedman: Lideres completos, Executive Excellence - 03/31/2016
- Mark Zuckerberg announces two-month paternity leave, MSNBC - 11/24/2015
- 20 of the best books by the most influential thinkers in business, Business Insider - 11/13/2015
- How Sunday Night Became the New Monday Morning, Boston Globe - 10/26/2015
- Dads: We Want Work-Life Balance, Too, Forbes - 10/04/2015
- Law Firms Are Learning: Work-Life Balance Isn’t Just for Moms, The Atlantic - 09/24/2015
- Why Paid Leave Matters for the Future of Business, Harvard Business Review - 09/16/2015
- Business Lobby Might Be Last to Realize Paid Leave Law Makes Sense, Huffington Post - 09/16/2015
- Business School Professors to Congress: It’s Time for Paid Family Leave, CNN Money - 09/16/2015
- Business School Faculty Call for National Paid Family Leave, RH Reality Check - 09/16/2015
- Business School Professors Push for Paid Family and Sick Leave Legislation, Bloomberg - 09/15/2015
- Parents (and everyone) should get paid leave from work, say 200 business professors, Mashable - 09/15/2015
- Business School Professors Give National Paid Leave Policy a Top Grade, The Washington Post - 09/15/2015
- Movement aims to make work more family friendly, less ‘hostile’, CNBC - 09/11/2015
- Employees Tend Not to Use Generous Benefits, U.S. News and World Report - 09/04/2015
- Hey Male CEOs, It’s Your Turn to Take Parental Leave, WIRED - 09/03/2015
- Big Leaps for Parental Leave, if Workers Actually Take It, The New York Times - 09/01/2015
- Changing Demands On Employees In the Modern American Workplace, The Diane Rehm Show, NPR - 08/20/2015
- Work Policies May Be Kinder, But Brutal Competition Isn’t, The New York Times - 08/17/2015
- Paid parental leave should be U.S. law — not just a company perk, Fortune - 08/10/2015
- A gender-equality club, run by men, Washington Post - 08/10/2015
- Adobe is doubling its paid maternity leave following similar announcements from Netfix and Microsoft, Business Insider - 08/10/2015
- Wharton professor says Netflix’s new unlimited parental policy ‘rasies the bar’ for the business world, Business Insider - 08/06/2015
- More Than Their Mothers, Young Women Plan Career Pauses, The New York Times - 07/22/2015
- How to keep work from killing your vacation when you just can’t leave it all behind, Washington Post - 07/21/2015
- How to be a great boss — and leave on time, BBC - 07/07/2015
- A Wharton professor explains the secret to living the life you want, Business Insider - 05/20/2015
- Why more millennials are choosing to be childless, Christian Science Monitor - 04/29/2015
- How Fatherly plans to corner the market on millennial dads, Fortune - 04/08/2015
- How To Find a New Path When Your Career Stalls, LinkedIn - 04/02/2015
- When You Realize You’ll Never Get Your Dream Job, Harvard Business Review - 04/01/2015
- Career Planning: Experts’ Advice for the Second Machine Age, Financial Times - 03/30/2015
- Still Missing: Female Business Leaders, CNN Money - 03/24/2015
- Do You Have That All Important Stakeholder Mindset?, LinkedIn - 03/24/2015
- Bulletproof Yourself for Work and Life, LinkedIn - 03/17/2015
- How To Get Your Team to Coach Each Other, Harvard Business Review - 03/13/2015
- Why It’s Not Selfish to Take Care of Yourself, LinkedIn - 03/12/2015
- So What If You Are a Happy Workaholic?, LinkedIn - 03/04/2015
- Keep Your Home Life Sane When Work Gets Crazy, Harvard Business Review - 02/23/2015
- More Balanced Life Can Help You Work Better, Chicago Tribune - 02/16/2015
- Poverty of Imagination in Work/Life, LinkedIn - 02/09/2015
- Get More Done by Focusing Less on Work, Harvard Business Review - 02/05/2015
- The Year of the Dad, LinkedIn - 01/28/2015
- Essential MOOCs in Business, Poets and Quants - 01/26/2015
- How To Master Work-Life Integration, LifeHacker - 01/20/2015
- Work-Life Integration? Get Real., Hospitals & Health Networks - 01/13/2015
- Change Your Life, LinkedIn - 12/27/2014
- Business Book Ideas for Your Gift List, CBCNews - 12/21/2014
- Recommended Reading: Top 10 Creative Leadership Books of 2014, Forbes - 12/18/2014
- Slow Down to Speed Up in 5 Easy Steps, LinkedIn - 12/17/2014
- Eight Noteworthy Books of 2014, Forbes - 12/14/2014
- Please Everyone: Review of Total Leadership, Motley Fool Stock Advisor - 12/03/2014
- 5 Ways to Avoid Workplace Burnout, New York Post - 12/01/2014
- How MBAs Can Lead The Life They Want, Poets and Quants - 11/26/2014
- Work-Life Integration: The New Way To Balance Your Career And Home Life, Forbes - 11/19/2014
- How to Be Productive and Still Have a Fun Weekend, Entrepreneur - 11/14/2014
- CEO Read Business Books Best Seller List, CEO Read - 11/13/2014
- Paternity Leave Costing Fathers in Workplace, CBS This Morning - 11/10/2014
- Forget Work-Life Balance: Take a Cue From Sheryl Sandberg and Bruce Springsteen, The Business Journals - 11/06/2014
- 10 Tips and Quotes From the Best Leadership Books of the Year, Inc. - 11/06/2014
- The Worst Thing You Can Do in Your Career, LinkedIn - 10/29/2014
- How To Be A More Authentic and Confident Leader, Fast Company - 10/22/2014
- How Harmony Can Help Your Leadership Skills, The Engaging Brand - 10/21/2014
- If Monday Morning Feels So Bad, Here’s What You Can Do About It, MarketWatch - 10/20/2014
- 6 Tips For Better Work-Life Balance, Forbes - 10/20/2014
- Strive For Work-Life Harmony, Not Balance, Big Think - 10/16/2014
- Forget Balance! 5 Things You Can Do to Lead the Life You Want, Huffington Post - 10/16/2014
- Wall Street Journal Bestseller List, Wall Street Journal - 10/16/2014
- Lessons On Life And Harmony From Bruce Springsteen, Fast Company - 10/15/2014
- Why Great Leaders Are Made, Not Born, Inc. - 10/14/2014
- Many Want Work-Life Balance But Should Aim For Blend, Investors Business Daily - 10/13/2014
- Why You Shouldn’t Try to Balance Work and Life, Yahoo! Small Business Advisor - 10/13/2014
- Are you ‘Leading the Life You Want’?, Forbes - 10/13/2014
- Jack Covert Selects Leading The Life You Want, 800CEORead - 10/13/2014
- Leading The Life You Want, Psychology Today - 10/09/2014
- 4 Surprising Secrets to Work Life Balance, Inc. - 10/08/2014
- Book Review, Legends of Bruce Springsteen - 10/07/2014
- What Successful Work and Life Integration Looks Like, Harvard Business Review - 10/07/2014
- Is Your Life Out of Control? Try These Exercises, Globe and Mail - 10/03/2014
- Want to Pull Your Life Together, Forbes - 10/03/2014
- Why Work/Life Balance is Folly, Forbes - 10/02/2014
- 13 Recommended Readings for Creative Leaders This Fall, Forbes - 09/16/2014
- Work + Home + Community + Self, Harvard Business Review, September Issue - 08/12/2014
- Why a CEO quit the “best job I ever had”, CBS This Morning - 08/07/2014
- Does Corporate America Finally Get What Working Parents Need?, Harvard Business Review - 06/27/2014
- Let Your Employees Mix Business and Personal Time at Work, Entrepreneur - 06/04/2014
- Millennials plan to trade kids for careers — but it doesn’t have to be that way, Deseret News - 03/15/2014
- Is Work-Family Reaching a Tipping Point?, Harvard Business Review - 03/06/2014
- Reduce Stress By Pursuing Four-Way Wins, Harvard Business Review - 03/03/2014
- Banks Ease Work Conditions, Fox Business News - 01/17/2014
- On Wall Street, a Generation Gap on Work/Life Issues, New York times - 01/15/2014
- Millennials Want Children, But They’re Not Planning on Them, New York Times - 01/08/2014
- The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013, Harvard Business Review - 12/24/2013
- Bye bye, Baby, Washington Post - 11/29/2013
- The World’s Top 50 Business Thinkers, Thinkers50 - 11/11/2013
- 7 Policy Changes America Needs So People Can Work and Have Kids, Harvard Business Review - 11/11/2013
- The New Sexy: Millennial Egalitarian Men, Huffington Post - 11/07/2013
- Why Wharton Undergrads Are Saying ‘No’ To Having Kids, Forbes - 10/19/2013
- Baby Bust: Millennials’ View Of Family, Work, Friendship And Doing Well, Forbes - 10/05/2013
- Don’t Rule Out Having Children Because You Want to Have a Career, The Atlantic - 02/14/2013
- The World’s Top 50 Business Thinkers, The Thinkers50 - 11/14/2011
- Men Negotiating the Work-Life Balance, Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane - 08/03/2011
- Top 100 Websites For Women 2011, Forbes - 06/23/2011
- Stewart Friedman: El liderazgo y la felicidad tienen la misma receta, America Economia - 06/20/2011
- The Goal is Transformation, Penn Medicine - 01/03/2011
- Flex-Time Goes to the White House, ABC News - 04/07/2010
- Boost Resilience, Decrease Stress, and Improve your Performance, Harvard Business Ideacast - 09/03/2009
- Hot Ticket in B-School: Bringing Life Values to Corporate Ethics, The New York Times - 06/29/2008
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Knowledge at Wharton
- Integrating Work-life Harmony in Retirement | Stew Friedman, Knowledge at Wharton - 4/29/2025
- Baby Bust | Stewart Friedman, Knowledge at Wharton - 7/16/2024
- Cultivating a Healthy Work-life Integration Culture, Knowledge at Wharton - 5/7/2024
- Why Are Millennials Not Having Kids?, Knowledge at Wharton - 3/12/2024
- Become Happier in Work and Life: The Four-way View, Knowledge at Wharton - 5/20/2021
- What Parents Can Learn about Leadership, Knowledge at Wharton - 3/10/2020
- Living Longer, Saving Less: What it Will Mean for Retirement, Knowledge at Wharton - 7/22/2019
- Paid Family Leave: What’s the Right Model?, Knowledge at Wharton - 4/12/2019
- The Case for Phased Retirement, Knowledge at Wharton - 11/1/2016
- Better Pay or More Flexibility: It Doesn’t Have to Be a Trade-off, Knowledge at Wharton - 5/11/2016
Wharton Stories
- Why this Neurosurgeon Came to Wharton’s EMBA Program, Wharton Stories - 01/17/2022
- Race and Work 2020: Why Companies Should Look Beyond Traditional Diversity Training to Establish Lasting DEI Initiatives, Wharton Stories - 11/20/2020
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Why this Neurosurgeon Came to Wharton’s EMBA ProgramAs a professor and neurosurgeon, Dr. Dan Sciubba, WG’21, came to Wharton’s EMBA program because “the future of medicine requires leaders in healthcare and business.” He explained, “I was working at a leading academic healthcare institution and wanted to combine my knowledge and experience with business skills to take my…
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