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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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26 Apr 2023
HBS Working Knowledge

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

In a post-AI world, where an algorithm can draft marketing copy—or even pop songs and movie scripts—anything seems possible. HBS faculty members discuss how artificial intelligence could reshape how work gets done.

16 Mar 2023
HBS Alumni Programs

SVB Collapse: HBS Faculty Perspectives

HBS faculty address the causes of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, the implication for entrepreneurs and investors, the state of our financial system. (Login required)

Re: Robin Greenwood (George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research); Jeffrey J. Bussgang (Senior Lecturer of Business Administration); Samuel G. Hanson (William L. White Professor of Business Administration)

12 Jan 2023
Harvard Business Review

Managers, Stop Distracting Your Employees

Four strategies to keep you from unintentionally sabotaging your team’s productivity.

13 Dec 2022
HBS Alumni Programs

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.

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 Dec 2022
HBS Alumni Bulletin

The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

New institute will elevate the study of how to build a more inclusive economy

Re: Michael Chu (Senior Lecturer of Business Administration); Robin J. Ely (Diane Doerge Wilson 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); By: April White

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

29 Nov 2022
Wired

The Work-From-Anywhere War Is Beginning

Forget return-to-office mandates. The most sought-after talent want ultimate flexibility. Their bosses need to get on board.

Re: Prithwiraj Choudhury (Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration)

01 Nov 2022
HBR Ideacast

Let's Protect Our Frontline Workers from Rude Customers

Advice for managers to help employees cope with customers today - with stress, anger, and incivility seemingly on the rise.

31 Oct 2022
BBC News

The Rise of the ‘Chief Remote Officer'

While many firms have pivoted to hybrid or remote work in an ad-hoc way, others are creating a new role to oversee their workplace transformation.

Re: Tsedal Neeley (Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research)

01 Sep 2022
Washington Post

Bosses Say Remote Work Kills Culture. These Companies Disagree.

Some business leaders worry remote options could destroy their company culture. But companies that have operated remotely for years say culture doesn’t come from a physical office.

Re: Prithwiraj Choudhury (Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration)

01 Sep 2022
BBC

Why Some Employers Won’t Give In to Flexibility

More and more employees want autonomy at work – and it’s become a major factor in whether they quit. Why are some companies digging in their heels against it?

Re: Tsedal Neeley (Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research)

25 Aug 2022
HBS Alumni Bulletin

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

Collaborations leverage Harvard’s strengths and resources

Re: Himabindu Lakkaraju (Assistant Professor of Business Administration); Raffaella Sadun (Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration); Shai Benjamin Bernstein (Marvin Bower Associate Professor); Marco Iansiti (David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration); Scott Duke Kominers (Professor of Business Administration (Leave of Absence)); Marco Di Maggio (Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration); Seth Neel (Assistant Professor of Business Administration); Jorge Tamayo (Assistant Professor of Business Administration)

11 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

Keeping Hybrid Employees Engaged

How you can foster emotional connection, team bonding, and fun to compensate for the loss of proximity in the office.

01 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

As the World Shifts, So Should Leaders

Research shows that different eras call for different approaches.

Re: Nitin Nohria (Professor of Business Administration Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor)

28 Jun 2022
Harvard Business Review

Help Your Team (Actually) Work Smarter, Not Harder

Three strategies for managers.

27 Jun 2022
Harvard Business Review

Monitoring Employees Makes Them More Likely to Break Rules

Research: When workers know they’re being surveilled, they often feel less responsible for their own conduct.

23 Jun 2022
HBS Working Knowledge

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

Research shows how virtual interactions can provide a salve for isolation. What does this mean for remote and hybrid workplaces?

Re: Amit Goldenberg (Assistant Professor of Business Administration)

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)

18 May 2022
Harvard Business Review

Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

Research shows how seemingly innocuous checking accounts can become vehicles for financial distress.

17 May 2022
Harvard Business Review

How Government and Business Can Tackle Big Global Crises Together

A leading political scientist outlines the challenges we face and explains what we can do about them.