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Women at Work

We Answer Questions from Early Career Listeners

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Women, Business, Gender, Progress, Careers, Harvard, Business/management, Equality, Resources, Management, Workplace, Hbr, Human, Business/entrepreneurship, Business/careers, Entrepreneurship

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

We talk through questions from listeners seeking advice on the challenges they’re facing early in their career — from being excluded from meetings to how to be more assertive.

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0:00.0

Harvard Business School Executive Education develops leaders who make a difference in the world.

0:06.0

In their programs, experience the power of fresh perspectives and connect with a world of new ideas.

0:13.0

Learn more at HBS. Me slash work.

0:17.0

That's HBS. M.E. slash work. business review. And in this episode we're going to do something a little bit different. We hear

0:35.9

a lot from our listeners and many of them are early in their careers. They regularly email

0:42.2

us with questions about workplace issues that they're dealing with.

0:48.0

So we wanted to pull in our friend Paige Cohen who oversees Ascend for HBR and who regularly deals with stuff like this.

0:59.5

So Paige, welcome.

1:01.5

Thank you, Amy. It's so great to be here.

1:04.0

Tell us a little about a send.

1:06.0

So yeah, a send is a sub-brand that we've recently launched and it lives under Harvard Business Review,

1:12.0

but like you said, it's really more about offering work and life advice to young people around the world.

1:18.0

So that could be someone who's just graduating and doesn't know what they want to do or is looking for a

1:24.9

device on how to land a first job. It could be someone who's just trying to

1:29.0

navigate their early career or even a first-time manager. And it's sort of similar to what we do on women at work because you guys take on really thorny questions too.

1:39.0

Yeah, exactly.

1:40.0

And it's focused on giving that same kind of quality practical advice.

1:44.4

And like women at work, we're focused on building a community and elevating people's stories.

1:49.6

So we try to feature voices that are just inclusive and share important perspectives that people can relate to and learn from right now.

1:58.0

Yeah.

1:59.0

Paige, let's get into some of the questions that have come into us at women at work that I think you would

2:04.4

be particularly qualified to help us think through.

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