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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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18 Jun 2022
Live from Klarman Hall

Using Our Business Leadership to Advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Moderated by Karen Stanley (MBA 1991) and Archie Jones (MBA 1998). Panelists discuss using business leadership to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in business and in society.

Re: Susan Harmeling (MBA 1991); Charles Henderson (MBA 1991); Nina Henderson Moore (MBA 1991); Lewis Long (MBA 1991); Jeff Perry (MBA 1991)

17 Jun 2022
Live from Klarman Hall

Accounting for Change – A Conversation with Professor George Serafeim

Professor Debora Spar interviews Professor George Serafeim about the role that measurement and the construction of a new global accountability infrastructure play in changing the world in areas such as decarbonization and commitment to social justice

Re: George Serafeim (Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration); Debora L. Spar (Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean, Business and Global Society Unit Head, General Management)

17 Jun 2022
Live from Klarman Hall

From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

Effectiveness and wellbeing at all stages of life comes not from holding on to past achievements, but from cultivating new habits and a different understanding of success and fulfillment

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

10 Jun 2022
Live from Klarman Hall

Managing in Turbulence

Professor Dutch Leonard considers the implications of living in a permanent state of elevated turbulence, and looks at ideas about how firms can operate more effectively in the increasingly volatile world we all inhabit

Re: Dutch Leonard (George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Management Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration)

10 Jun 2022
Live from Klarman Hall

Building an AI-First Biotech Company

Professor Karim Lakhani and Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) discuss building an AI-First Biotech company—how to leverage artificial intelligence and other digital resources to speed operations, manage processes, and ensure quality

Re: Stefan Bancel (MBA 2000); Karim R. Lakhani (Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration)

10 Jun 2022
Live from Klarman Hall

Competing in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) challenges the very concept of how a company is put together. Reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning.

Re: Karim R. Lakhani (Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration)

07 Jun 2022
Live from Klarman Hall

Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies

A compelling reassessment of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms get purpose right

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

03 Jun 2022
Live from Klarman Hall

Managing a Polarized Workforce

How leaders can approach disagreements productively and help employees at all levels do so

Re: Francesca Gino (Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration)

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)