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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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01 Dec 2022
HBS Alumni Bulletin

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Institute to amplify the work of the Business and Environment Initiative

Re: Michael W. Toffel (Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management); George Serafeim (Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration); Peter Tufano (Baker Foundation Professor); Rebecca M. Henderson (John and Natty McArthur University Professor (Leave of Absence)); Shirley Lu (Assistant Professor of Business Administration); By: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2022
HBS Alumni Bulletin

Contributing to a Better Future

HBS institute furthers the study of business’s role in confronting societal challenges

Re: Drew Keller (MBA 2022); Debora L. Spar (Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean, Business and Global Society Unit Head, General Management); By: April White

16 Nov 2022
HBS Climate Rising Podcast

US DOE’s Jigar Shah & the State of Carbon Removal

Director of the Loans Program Office shares some of the technical and finance challenges and opportunities of carbon removal solutions.

Re: Michael W. Toffel (Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management)

09 Nov 2022
Harvard Business Review

From Droughts to Floods, Water Risk Is an Urgent Business Issue

New regulations are forcing companies to confront the issue.

02 Nov 2022
HBS Climate Rising Podcast

McKinsey's Climate Consulting

How the company works with its clients to address climate risk and find opportunities through its pillars of net-zero strategy, green business building, decarbonization transformation, net-zero financial institutions, and sustainable investing.

Re: Michael W. Toffel (Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management)

26 Oct 2022
Harvard Business Review

Climate Risk Is Growing. Is Your Company Prepared?

Four steps for protecting your property - prioritize, transfer, avoid, or minimize - before the next “big one” hits.

Re: John D. Macomber (Senior Lecturer of Business Administration)

16 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

As Climate Risk Grows, So Will Costs for Small Businesses

Lessons in risk management based on research on Texas businesses affected by Hurricane Harvey.

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
HBS Climate Rising Podcast

How Ceres Supports Corporate Boards to Accelerate Climate Action

Learn how Ceres works with corporate boards to facilitate systemic change in private sector climate action, including why boards are a critical part of the equation.

Re: Michael W. Toffel (Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management)

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

It’s Time to Invest in Climate Adaptation

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

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

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)

01 Jun 2022
HBS Alumni Bulletin

Making It Count

How new accounting methodologies could usher in a new era of impact transparency—and with it a paradigm shift for capitalism

Re: Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969); George Serafeim (Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration); By: Jen McFarland Flint

18 May 2022
Harvard Business Review

Hydrogen’s Role in Decarbonization (with Electric Hydrogen CEO Raffi Garabedian)

This episode explores the market opportunity and roadmap to wide adoption of “green hydrogen.”

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)

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)

09 Mar 2022
HBS Climate Rising Podcast

The Aspen Institute’s Shipping Decarbonization Initiative

Director Ingrid Irigoyen discusses the importance of decarbonizing global maritime shipping, and the opportunities and challenges.

22 Feb 2022
HBS Alumni Bulletin

New Urban Order

Looking into the not-too-distant future of tomorrow’s sustainable cities

Re: Cheng Lu (MBA 2010); Raphael Carty (MBA 1983); Molly Middaugh (MBA 2018); Frank Yang (MBA 2006); Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986); Judy Judson (MBA 2000); Worthing Jackman (MBA 1991); Barbara Littlefield (MBA 1988); By: Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by Kathleen Fu

09 Feb 2022
HBS Climate Rising Podcast

How BlocPower is Decarbonizing Buildings

Donnel Baird, founder and CEO of BlocPower, a climate tech startup, describes why decarbonizing the buildings sector in Ithaca, NY, and beyond is both a challenge and an opportunity.