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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.

Balancing Profitability and Social Accountability

Professors Debora Spar and George Serafeim discuss ways to develop an action plan to drive and measure performance improvement on key environmental and social issues.

Big Ideas from Klarman Hall

Watch recent videos featuring HBS faculty members, alumni, and other subject experts addressing timely topics on business and society, recorded live in Klarman Hall. Includes presentations from the 2022 Fall Reunions and other events.

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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01 Dec 2023
HBS Alumni Bulletin

Rounding the Bend

New technologies offer new hope for a circular economy in the apparel industry

Re: Emily Bolon (MBA 2007); James Reinhart (MBA 2009); Christopher Homer (MBA 2009); Maria McClay (MBA 2006); By: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2023
HBS Alumni Bulletin

Research Brief: Staying in the Game

Re: Benjamin Iverson (PHDBE 2013); Shai Benjamin Bernstein (MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration); Emanuele Colonnelli (Visiting Associate Professor of Business Administration); By: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2023
HBS Alumni Bulletin

The Exchange: Help Wanted

Why it’s so hard to screen for soft skills—and why they’re the most critical skill in the C-suite today

Re: Joseph B. Fuller (Professor of Management Practice); Raffaella Sadun (Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for HBS Publishing)

13 Nov 2023
HBR Women at Work

So Many Feelings. Too Many?

How to share with purpose, recover from an outburst, set boundaries, and provide solace.

13 Nov 2023
HBR

4 Strategies to Cultivate an Authentic Corporate Purpose

This article introduces four pivotal strategies to help businesses achieve a transcendent purpose, ensuring a cohesive blend of profitability and genuine societal impact.

09 Nov 2023
HBS Online

How to Get Employee Buy-In to Execute Your Strategic Initiatives

Successfully executing strategic initiatives requires employee buy-in. Here’s why it’s important and how to get it.

07 Nov 2023
MIT Sloan Management Review

Marketing with Generative AI: Harvard Business School’s Ayelet Israeli

A new study looks at generative AI’s potential as a substitute for human participants in marketing studies and focus groups.

Re: Ayelet Israeli (Marvin Bower Associate Professor)

06 Nov 2023
HBS Working Knowledge

Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better

Research by Alison Wood Brooks, Hanne Collins, and colleagues reveals just how prone the mind is to wandering, and sheds light on ways to stay tuned in to the conversation.

Re: Alison Wood Brooks (O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration)

01 Nov 2023
HBS Managing the Future of Work Project

Deloitte's Dan Helfrich on Consulting in the Post-Covid, AI-inflected New Normal

How do a culture of open debate and prioritizing work-life balance help the firm navigate change while advising others on how to do the same?

Re: William R. Kerr (Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research)

23 Oct 2023
HBR Ascend

Values, Passion, or Purpose — Which Should Guide Your Career?

When it comes to developing your career, you’ve heard the advice: Define your values, follow your passion, and find your purpose. But what do these concepts actually mean, and how can you use them to move forward in your career?

20 Oct 2023
HBR

How ENGOs Can Support Corporate Climate Change Efforts

Five ways companies can engage with ENGOs to work on their climate change efforts, as well as some pitfalls to avoid

17 Oct 2023
HBR Ideacast

Tools for Managers to Help Employees with Their Mental Health Challenges

A conversation with a psychologist and a management professor on helping workers address anxiety or depression.

16 Oct 2023
HBS Working Knowledge

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

Case studies by Linda Hill offer an inside look at how Delta CEO Ed Bastian is creating a more equitable company and a stronger talent pipeline.

Re: Linda A. Hill (Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration)

04 Oct 2023
HBR

A Tool to Help Boards Measure Cyber Resilience

To properly mitigate cyber risk, company leaders must have rock-solid plans in place to respond and recover quickly so even in the face of a cyber attack, the company continues to operate.

03 Oct 2023
HBS Working Knowledge

Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?

There's so much to learn from failure, potentially more than success, argues Amy Edmondson in a new book. James Heskett asks whether the study of leadership should involve more emphasis on learning from failure?

25 Sep 2023
Harvard Business Review

How to Evaluate a Job Candidate’s Critical Thinking Skills in an Interview

Hiring managers can apply the Socratic method to create a different dialogue with candidates in a modern-day organization.

19 Sep 2023
HBR Ideacast

How Companies Can Recommit to Their DEI Goals

A conversation with Darden’s Laura Morgan Roberts on why giving workers agency matters to your organization.

13 Sep 2023
HBS Climate Rising Podcast

How Arcos Dorados is Addressing Climate Change in Latin America

How the largest McDonald’s franchise in the world designs and implements climate solutions

12 Sep 2023
HBS Working Knowledge

Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You

In the book Build the Life You Want, Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey offer high achievers a guide to becoming better leaders—of their lives.

Re: Arthur C. Brooks (Professor of Management Practice)

06 Sep 2023
HBR Ascend

3 Mistakes First-Time Managers Make with Digital Transformation

Whether you work in customer-facing roles, manage production lines or back-end work, here are three digital traps that are easy to fall into and how to navigate them.