• The Center continued The New Dad Study with a second report, a qualitative study of nearly 1,000 fathers entitled The New Dad: Caring Committed and Conflicted.
• The Center welcomed Executive-in-Residence Lauren Stiller Rikleen who authored the Executive Briefing Creating Tomorrow’s Leaders:  the Expanding Roles of Millennials in the Workplace and was influential in the development of our new Executive Education workshops.
• The Center began a relationship with Fox 25 News Boston to offer information and advice on current topics related to work and life in the Work-Life Wednesday Series.
• The Center worked with MetLife to study global financial wellness, releasing a report entitled The MetLife Study of Financial Wellness Across the Globe.

• The Center celebrated its 20th Anniversary with a day long conference at Boston College and a Gala celebration at the Boston College Club. Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston declared September 30, 2010 to be the Boston College Center for Work & Family Day. 
• The New Dad: Exploring Fatherhood Within a Career Context is completed by Executive Director Brad Harrington, Senior Research Associate Fred Van Deusen, and Professor Jamie Ladge of Northeastern University. The study explored the experiences of more than thirty first-time fathers in dual career couples.

2009

• The Center holds its first Joint Roundtable Meeting in May in Washington D.C. for members of both CWF's Global and National Roundtables. The meeting features speakers on a wide-range of topics including panels on women's advancement and employees with disabilities, the Director of Georgetown's Flexibility 2010 initiative, and the chief economist from the Obama Administration's Working Families Taskforce.
• Center Director Brad Harrington is invited to contribute the chapter on women in business to the upcoming report A Woman's Nation, co-edited by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress. The report and forthcoming book will provide a comprehensive overview of the state of women in America and will feature some of the country's leading authorities on women's issues and public policy.
• The Center initiaties a qualitative study and completes the pilot study on fatherhood, careers, and parental identity.

2008

• Center Director Brad Harrington authors and the Center publishes The Work-Life Evolution Study, which provides a comprehensive look at the trends that are impacting workforce management and factors that will facilitate effective organizational transformation to a more flexible workplace culture.
• The Center holds the second highly successful Global Workforce Roundtable Summit in Shanghai, China. The meeting receives extremely high praise for bringing together an outstanding group of world-class academics and employers from 14 countries in a lively exchange focused on the challenges of talent management in the highly competitive and fast growing Asian region.
• The Center produces two reports on international work-life issues: Flexible Work Arrangements in Asia and Work-Life in China.
• In collaboration with the Institute for Workplace Innovation at the University of Kentucky and with funding provided by The Center on Aging & Work, the Sloan Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the Center publishes The Citisales Study. This study provides an in-depth look at the retail sector and the impact of flexible workplace cultures on older workers and low-wage workers. Principal authors are CWF Research Director Jackie James and Prof. Jennifer Swanberg of the University of Kentucky.

2007

• Center Director Brad Harrington publishes Career-Management & Work-Life Integration: Using Self-Assessment to Navigate Contemporary Careers (Sage, 2007). The book was co-authored with Professor Douglas T. Hall of Boston University, one of the country's pre-eminent career scholars, and it provides the reader with a step-by-step guide to managing careers in today's highly dynamic and complex labor market.
• The Center releases Overcoming the Implementation Gap: How 20 Leading Companies Are Making Flexibility Work. This report of organizational best practices covers an extremely broad range of approaches to flexibility and provided a roadmap of how to implement flexible work arrangements successfully in organizations.
• Center Director Brad Harrington joins the advisory board of the International Centre of Work and Family at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. IESE is Spain's top business school and is ranked in the top ten business schools in Europe.
• The Center awareded its first CWF Fellowship to a deserving doctoral student from the Organization Studies department of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Prof. Jamie Ladge, now an assistant professor at Northeastern University, is named the first recipient.

• 2005 was an exciting year marked by the establishment of several new ventures and partnerships. These initiatives have ensured that the Center is at the forefront in the discourse on three important issues: the impact of globalization on the workforce, the changing employment contract and approaches to workforce management, and the needs and issues facing older workers.
• The Executive Briefing Series included two new publications The Next Step: Exploring Dynamic Workforce Trends and Business or Busyness: Strategies for Managing Workload.

• The Center launches a unique Executive Briefing Series to address topical and strategic issues of particular relevance to the current business climate. Issues in the 2004 series include: Creating a Culture of Flexibility, The Aging Workforce, and Paternity Leave.
• The Center publishes a groundbreaking study, Increasing the Visibility of the Invisible Workforce: Model Programs and Policies for Hourly and Lower Wage Employees, to highlight model programs and best practices for lower wage earners in corporations.

• The Center releases Women at Midlife and Beyond: A Glimpse into the Future, which presents findings from a three-year study that focused on understanding the special issues and challenges pertaining to career and balancing work and family faced by women age 35 and older.
• In partnership with Families and Work Institute and Catalyst, the Center publishes Leaders in a Global Economy: A Study of Executive Women and Men. The study is the largest cross-organizational research done on career and work-life issues of top management in major corporations and is a first of its kind collaboration between three leading research organizations.
• The first graduates complete the Boston College Work/Life Certificate Program. The certificate program is the result of a collaboration with the Alliance for Work/Life Progress (AWLP) to enhance the skills of those who are responsible for driving work/life in organizations.

• With support from the Dow Chemical Company, the Center publishes a  report which explore the many facets of telecommuting, Bringing Work Home: Advantages and Challenges of Telecommuting. This study looks at the many dimensions of telecommuting and provides a "how-to" guide for organizations interested in implemting this flexible work arrangement.

• With the support of nine corporate sponsors, the Center launches the Standards of Excellence in Work/Life Integration Project to provide standards for measuring the effectiveness of organizational work/life initiatives
• Prof. Brad Harrington named Executive Director of the Center. Harrington was a former executive in Human Resources and organization development at Hewlett Packard for 20 years.

• 10th Anniversary Year for the Center. A 10th Anniversary Celebration is held in Boston in October of 2000 to mark the anniversary.
• Appointment of Prof. Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes of the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work as a Roundtable Fellow
• The Center publishes the research report, Measuring the Impact of Workplace Flexibility, which presents the findings of the National Work/Life Measurement Project
• In partnership with the Center for Families at Purdue University, the Center launches the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award recognizing the most rigorous and impactful research published in the work-life field. The Kanter Award involves more than two dozen leading academics who review forty leading management, behavioral, and social science journals that publish the top level research in the field.

• The Center, in collaboration with the Alliance of Work/Life Professionals, announces the new Work/Life Certificate Program
• With support from Motorola, KPMG, and the Union Carbide Foundation, the Center publishes the Metrics Manual: Ten Approaches to Measuring Work/Life Initiatives

• National Work/Life Measurement Project launched with the support of Amway, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Honeywell, Kraft Foods, Lucent Technologies, and Motorola
• In collaboration with the Center for Corporate Community Relations, the Center publishes Enhancing Strategic Value: Becoming a Company of Choice

• Center for Work & Family moves from the Boston University School of Social Work to the Carroll School of Management at Boston College
• With the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Center creates the Sloan Work Family Researchers Electronic Network to increase interest in work and family research
• Center partners with the National Adoption Center on the National Study of Adoption Benefits
• Appointment of Prof. Shelley MacDermid of Purdue University as a Roundtable Fellow

• With funding from the BlueCross and BlueShield of MA, NEWFA and One Small Step pilot the BalanceSheets Series
• The Center partners with BusinessWeek Magazine on the Best Companies for Work & Family ranking
• Sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company, the Center publishes A Catalyst for Educational Change to promote the involvement of working parents in their children's education

• Work & Family Roundtable develops the Principles of Excellence for the work/life field

• With funding from the Union Carbide Foundation, the Center pilots the Policy Paper Series
• Appointment of Phil Mirvis as a Roundtable Fellow

• Introduction of first Roundtable Fellows- Prof. Sharon Lobel of Seattle University and Kathleen Christensen, now Program Director for Work and Family at the Sloan Foundation.

• New England Work & Family Association (NEWFA) is established to help employers understand and address the complex work/life challenges facing today's workforce Initiation of Corporate Culture Scan research

• Home and On Your Own; with funding from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Center initiates a workplace education program for latchkey families

• The Center on Work & Family founded at Boston University by Professor Brad Googins
• Work & Family Roundtable established to provide leadership to shape corporate and public responses to the demands of work, home and community in order to enhance employee effectiveness