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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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Select a topic below to explore programs, content, and other resources available to HBS alumni throughout your career and life. Use the filters at left to narrow your selections.

13 Apr 2022
HBS Managing the Future of Work Project

The New Terms of the Talent Bargain

Micha Kaufman, founder and CEO of Fiverr, explains how businesses have gotten better at leveraging freelance professionals and highly skilled workers.

Re: Joseph B. Fuller (Professor of Management Practice)

12 Apr 2022
Harvard Business Review

We Need Better Carbon Accounting. Here’s How to Get There.

How an E-liability accounting system, based on well-established practices from inventory and cost accounting, can accurately measure GHG emissions across corporate supply chains.

Re: Robert S. Kaplan (Senior Fellow Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus)

07 Apr 2022
Harvard Business Review

The Science of Choking Under Pressure

What leaders can learn from elite athletes about performing in the biggest moments.

07 Apr 2022
Harvard Business Review

Change Is Hard. Here’s How to Make It Less Painful.

Four strategies to help you shift your mindset.

07 Apr 2022
HBR Ideacast

Find Joy in Any Job: Why Am I Unhappy at Work?

How to design your work to focus on what you love.

06 Apr 2022
Harvard Business Review

The “Great Resignation” Is a Misnomer

People aren’t just quitting their jobs — they’re aspiring to new ways of life.

06 Apr 2022
Harvard Business Review

5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership

Understanding why you’re in the room is more important than being the smartest one in it.

Re: Hubert Joly (Senior Lecturer of Business Administration)

05 Apr 2022
Harvard Business Review

3 Ways to Boost Retention Through Professional Development

Data suggests it’s one of the best ways to improve company culture

05 Apr 2022
HBR Ideacast

Working with Colleagues: Should You Collaborate or Compete?

A conversation with London Business School professor Randall Peterson about navigating coworker relationships.

05 Apr 2022
HBS Cold Call Podcast

Transforming Deloitte’s Approach to Consulting

What does it take to bring disruptive innovation to an established consulting firm?

05 Apr 2022
Harvard Business Review

How the Metaverse Could Change Work

It promises to bring new levels of social connectedness, mobility, and collaboration to a world of virtual work.

05 Apr 2022
Harvard Business Review

Onboarding Can Make or Break a New Hire’s Experience

Implementing a formal program could boost retention by up to 50%.

04 Apr 2022
HBR Women at Work

The Essentials: Retaining Talent

Questions, incentives, and data that’ll help you keep your team members from eyeing the door.

01 Apr 2022
Harvard Business Review

How Teams Are Retaining Employees Right Now

In the face of the Great Resignation, companies must invest in building strong relationships — or risk losing their best people.

31 Mar 2022
HBR Podcast

Coaching Real Leaders

Advice on walking a tightrope between addressing a superior’s microaggressions and making her team feel safe.

30 Mar 2022
HBS Managing the Future of Work Project

Working with Software Robots

How far up the white-collar value chain is automation pushing and what's the optimal mix of human and machine intelligence?

Re: William R. Kerr (Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration Unit Head, Entrepreneurial Management)

30 Mar 2022
Harvard Business Review

To Retain Employees, Support Their Passions Outside Work

Don’t just offer flexibility — empower people to use it.

30 Mar 2022
Harvard Business Review

Do Your AAPI Employees Feel Safe Coming Back to Work?

Racism against the Asian American Pacific Islander community is still on the rise in the U.S. Here’s how leaders can support their teams.

29 Mar 2022
HBS Working Knowledge

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

What makes a business resilient, agile, and enduring? A new book analyzes some of India's most successful companies.

Re: Tarun Khanna (Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor); Geoffrey G. Jones (Isidor Straus Professor of Business History)

29 Mar 2022
Climatewire

Michael Brune’s Next Battle: Clean up Bitcoin

What to do about the world’s dirtiest cryptocurrency.

Re: David B. Yoffie (Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration)