How to Have a Relationship and a Career

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🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Jennifer Petriglieri, associate professor at INSEAD, studied more than 100 couples where both partners have big professional goals. She finds that being successful in your careers and your relationship involves planning, mapping, and ongoing communication. She also identifies different models for managing dual-career relationships and explains the traps that couples typically encounter. Petriglieri is the author of the book “Couples That Work: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work.”

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0:00.0	How do you navigate gender in your workplace?
0:04.0	HBR's fan favorite podcast Women at Work is back with personal stories, the newest research,
0:09.2	and practical advice on navigating disability, career failures, and joining a board.
0:14.0	Listen for free to H-BRA's women at work wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR IDEAcast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickish. It was New Year's Day 2005. Jennifer Heard and Jan Piero Petrigliari were
0:50.3	sputtering around Sicily on an old Vespa.
0:54.0	They were dating.
0:55.0	This was a visit to his home.
0:57.0	And at one stop, they opened a bottle of wine by the harbor,
1:01.5	and then quite unexpectedly, and maybe as it turned out
1:04.5	serendipitously drew up a contract. Not very romantic you might say after tooling
1:11.6	around the island but for them it was an act of creation
1:15.1	it gave contours suddenly to their common unknown and they each finished
1:20.0	sentences like what I want is what I'm willing to give is, what scares me is. And then
1:28.7	they read them out loud to each other. So without this relationship contract, would they have married, would they be working at the same business school now? Would they have children? We'll never know for sure. But Jennifer believes that this off-the-cuff experiment
1:44.3	set the stage for the inevitable choices and consequences to come. The give and take,
1:49.0	the common pursuit of a couple, each of them after their own ambitious career dreams as well as a life together.
1:56.3	So recently, Jennifer has researched similar professional couples and today in front of a live audience
2:01.6	at the Kympton Kimpton 90 Hotel in Boston.
2:04.8	She's here to tell how these couples work together
2:07.1	to tackle and resolve the challenges
2:08.9	they face throughout their lives together.
2:11.8	Jennifer Petrigleria is an associate professor at Inciad
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