Alison Beard is an executive editor at Harvard Business Review and previously worked as a reporter and editor at the Financial Times. A mom of two, she tries—and sometimes succeeds—to apply management best practices to her household.
Amanda Kersey is a senior editor and producer at Harvard Business Review. She previously led HBR’s Women at Work podcast, from its beginning in 2018 to its end in 2025. Before that, she produced the HBR IdeaCast and worked in public media.
