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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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24 Mar 2022
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative

HBS OnBoard: Nonprofit Leadership Transitions

The board’s role is particularly critical during a leadership transition. Hear from our panel of alumni nonprofit leaders about their experiences navigating through transitions as nonprofit founders, CEOs, funders, and board members.

17 Mar 2022
HBS Clubs

Venture Capital & Angel Investing - What We Know and Still Need to Learn

Professor Josh Lerner moderates a discussion for the HBS Alumni Association of Boston and HBS Alumni Angels.

Re: John Reichenbach (MBA 1986); Jason Klein (MBA 1986); Josh Lerner (Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking)

09 Feb 2022
HBS Newsroom

A Conversation with Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft

HBS Dean Srikant Datar and Professor Debora Spar join Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO of Microsoft, for a conversation about the role of business in global society.

Re: Srikant M. Datar (George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean of the Faculty); Debora L. Spar (Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean, Business and Global Society Unit Head, General Management)

07 Feb 2022
HBS Alumni Programs

Leading High-Performance Companies with Purpose

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

Re: Ranjay Gulati (Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration)

15 Dec 2021
HBS OnBoard

HBS OnBoard: Effective Fundraising with Professor F. Warren McFarlan

How to build the skill of tactfully asking for funds and developing a strong plan for sustaining revenue, regardless of your organization’s size.

Re: F. Warren McFarlan (Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus)

15 Nov 2021
HBS Business & Environment Initiative

Climate Trailblazers

From the HBS Business and Environment Initiative's 2021 Climate Symposium, host Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) speaks with Kameale Terry, ChargerHelp!; Kwabena Osei-Sarpong, RIFE International; and Dom Lempereur, Blocpower.

Re: Jacqui Adams (MBA 1978)

11 Nov 2021
HBS Alumni Programs

Where Does Higher Education Go from Here?

In a virtual program from the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, Professor Emeritus William Sahlman explores the future of education with three expert guests..

Re: Natalie McCullough (MBA 2000)

28 Oct 2021
HBS Videos

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella on Flexible Work, the Metaverse, and the Power of Empathy

In episode 1 of the HBR video series “The New World of Work”, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses rapidly evolving trends in how we collaborate, especially in a hybrid world.

27 Sep 2021
Harvard Business Review

Christine vs. Work: How to Find a Mentor Who Can Accelerate Your Career

If you want a mentor, but aren’t sure where to start, we have a few tips that might help.

03 Sep 2021
The Conversation

Power for All: The Dynamics of Power

We all have access to power if we understand the dynamics of power.

Re: Julie Battilana (Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration)

16 Aug 2021
LinkedIn

Building Trust from the Inside Out

How to build, maintain, and strengthen trust within your organization.

Re: Sandra J. Sucher (MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice)

12 Jul 2021
Books @ Baker

Better, Simpler Strategy

Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee explained how companies can achieve better results by doing less and chasing fewer ideas—the ones that truly make a difference.

Re: Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration Unit Head, Strategy)

15 Jun 2021
HBS Executive Education

HBS OnBoard with Professor Rangan

A conversation with the CEO of BoardSource on the shift to purpose-driven leadership that looks to greater social impact goals.

13 Jun 2021
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative

Leading Systemic Change

Ford Foundation President Darren Walker discusses diversity, inclusion, and changing organizational culture with Professor Shawn Cole during the recent HBS Clubs-sponsored Nonprofit Boards Summit.

Re: Shawn A. Cole (John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration)

08 Jun 2021
HBR Ascend

How to Give Feedback — Especially When You’re Dreading it

Liane Davey, author of The Good Fight, offers tips on how to get better at tough conversations.

05 Jun 2021
HBS Alumni Programs

From Strength to Strength: Happiness and Success at Every Stage of Life

Professors Arthur Brooks and Len Schlesinger, creators of the popular HBS course Leadership & Happiness, share strategies for finding meaning, success, and happiness, and leveraging your unique strengths.

Re: Leonard A. Schlesinger (Baker Foundation Professor Chair, Practice Faculty); Arthur C. Brooks (Professor of Management Practice)

24 May 2021
HBS Digital Initiative

The Role Experiments Play in Addressing Discrimination

Professor Mike Luca discusses the role of platform design choices in establishing and/or reinforcing discrimination, and what the future could hold if organizations continue to pay attention to these issues.

Re: Michael Luca (Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration)

24 May 2021
HBR Ascend

How to Speak Up in Meetings

Justin Hale, host of “One Productive Minute” and speaking coach at VitalSmarts, offers guidance on how to make what should be simple, actually simple.

20 May 2021
The Atlantic

In Pursuit of Happiness

HBS Prof. Arthur Brooks will appear at a virtual forum hosted by The Atlantic that explores ways to build a more meaningful life. Brooks will speak at 11:00 am and close the forum at 3:30 pm with an interview of Deepak Chopra.

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

19 May 2021
HBR Ascend

You Need Tough Feedback—Here’s How to Get It

Octavia Goredema, career coach and founder of Twenty Ten Agency, has advice on how to manage professional feedback.