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HBS for Life

As a lifelong member of the HBS community, you have access to insights, training, expertise, and support from faculty and fellow alumni that will help you navigate opportunities and challenges throughout your life and journey.

Leading High-Performance Companies with Purpose

Professor Ranjay Gulati explores the power of purpose, an approach that can embed work and life with meaning and deliver impressive benefits for customers, suppliers, employees, and communities.

Free Business Lessons from HBS Online

Gain actionable skills and insights through interactive business lessons from leading HBS faculty and industry experts on topic such as leading organizations, managing risk, pricing, and negotiations.

Career Coaching for You, for Free

An HBS career coach can guide your career development and job search process through six free coaching sessions per year, including self-assessment, interviewing prep, and offer negotiation tips.

Keep Learning with Alumni Virtual Programs

Expand your knowledge and skills with online programs led by HBS faculty and other subject experts. View videos of recent sessions from Alumni Programs, HBS Clubs, HBS Initiatives, and other partners.

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11 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

Keeping Hybrid Employees Engaged

How you can foster emotional connection, team bonding, and fun to compensate for the loss of proximity in the office.

11 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

Why Companies Aren't Living Up to Their Climate Pledges

With many organizations struggling to deliver on their climate commitments, here are five remedies to get back on track.

10 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

Stop Offering Career Ladders. Start Offering Career Portfolios.

Here’s how to get started enabling and encouraging career portfolios within your organization.

10 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

Four Ways to Communicate with More Empathy

The most effective leadership communications deliver attention, acknowledge distress, demonstrate care, and take appropriate action.

09 Aug 2022
HBS Cold Call Podcast

A Lesson from Google: Can AI Bias be Monitored Internally?

A star AI researcher was forced out of Google when she raised concerns about bias in the company’s large language models. Now tech companies must rethink their AI ethics.

Re: Tsedal Neeley (Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research)

09 Aug 2022
HBS Online

4 Strategies for Shifting the Power Balance in Your Business

If you want to gain power to make an impact, here’s everything you need to know about how to shift your business’s balance of power.

Re: Nitin Nohria (Professor of Business Administration Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor (Leave of Absence))

08 Aug 2022
HBR Ideacast

Decisions Don’t Have to Be Either-Or

A conversation about approaching difficult choices differently.

03 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

How to Answer “Why Do You Want to Work Here?”

Three strategies for answering this common - and tricky - interview question, plus sample answers for you to use as a guide.

02 Aug 2022
HBS Working Knowledge

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

Businesses don't need to sacrifice the bottom line to support the planet. In the book Purpose and Profit, Professor George Serafeim offers a roadmap for companies ready to embrace their role as societal change agents.

Re: George Serafeim (Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration)

01 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

As the World Shifts, So Should Leaders

Research shows that different eras call for different approaches.

Re: Nitin Nohria (Professor of Business Administration Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor (Leave of Absence))

01 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

It’s Time to Invest in Climate Adaptation

We need measures to help people, animals, and plants survive the climate crisis.

29 Jul 2022
HBS Working Knowledge

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

Women in senior management have more negotiation power than they think in today's labor market, says research by HBS professors Paul Healy and Boris Groysberg. Is it time for more women to seek better opportunities and bigger pay?

Re: Boris Groysberg (Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration); Paul M. Healy (James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research)

29 Jul 2022
Harvard Business Review

Closing the Gap Between Digital Marketing Spending and Performance

How marketers can maximize returns.

27 Jul 2022
Harvard Business Review

How Well Does Your Company Use Analytics?

A framework to identify your strengths and weaknesses.

27 Jul 2022
Harvard Business Review

ESG Reports Aren’t a Replacement for Real Sustainability

Five strategies for embedding sustainability into your business — and making it a competitive advantage

27 Jul 2022
Harvard Business Review

Navigating Peer Relationships While Climbing the Ladder

The higher you rise, the more complex these relationships become.

20 Jul 2022
Harvard Business Review

3 Ways Companies Make Work Purposeful

Retaining employees starts with keeping them engaged.

11 Jul 2022
Harvard Business Review

Build Learning into Your Employees’ Workflow

Five tactical, research-backed strategies to help companies ensure that learners retain and apply new skills and concepts in their day-to-day tasks.

28 Jun 2022
HBS Cold Call Podcast

Scaling a Fintech Startup for the Greater Good

HBS Assistant Professor Emily Williams discusses how two cofounders decided how to allocate resources and scale their business in the case “Esusu: Solving Homelessness Backwards.”

Re: Emily Williams (Assistant Professor of Business Administration)

28 Jun 2022
Harvard Business Review

Two Questions to Ask Before Setting Your Strategy

First: Is there a problem to be solved?