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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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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.

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.

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.

28 Mar 2022
Wired

The Supply Chain Crisis Is About to Get a Lot Worse

A seemingly endless supply chain crunch has fueled interest in tech that promises to track problems or predict where new ones might occur.

Re: Willy C. Shih (Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration)

23 Feb 2022
HBS Managing the Future of Work Project

Rethinking Low-Wage Work

What's the business case for upgrading low-wage, high-turnover jobs? HBS professors Joe Fuller and Bill Kerr to unpack the recent report "Building From the Bottom Up."

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

03 Feb 2022
Harvard Business Review

3 Tensions Leaders Need to Manage in the Hybrid Workplace

Building an inclusive culture is a balancing act.

24 Jan 2022
Harvard Business Review

Building a Globally Diverse Team Is Actually Getting Easier

Five ways leaders can identify and recruit international talent.

11 Jan 2022
HBS Cold Call Podcast

Can Entrepreneurs and Governments Team Up to Solve Big Problems?

This episode of Cold Call discusses a case involving Shield AI with the case author, Mitch Weiss, and the case protagonist.

Re: Brandon Tseng (MBA 2017); Mitchell B. Weiss (Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice)

15 Dec 2021
HBS Managing the Future of Work Project

How Can HR Reinvent Itself?

How well is HR heeding its own advice to workers? Society for Human Resource Management CEO Johnny C. Taylor Jr. discusses the importance of workplace culture, reskilling, and expanding the talent pool.

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

01 Dec 2021
HBS Managing the Future of Work Project

Humanizing the Profit Motive

Can businesses afford to see employees in terms other than unit labor cost? How do you factor the Golden Rule into a profit and loss statement?

Re: Hubert Joly (Senior Lecturer of Business Administration)

29 Nov 2021
HBS Working Knowledge

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

Working late again? Research shows how incentive pay encourages workers to think of downtime as wasted time.

Re: Ashley V. Whillans (Assistant Professor of Business Administration)

17 Nov 2021
HBS Managing the Future of Work Project

Why Inclusion Benefits the Economy and Economics

Economist Lisa Cook discusses her pioneering work on the cost of exclusion—the economic consequences of innovation lost due to racism and sexism.

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

15 Nov 2021
Harvard Business Review

6 Strategies to Boost Retention Through the Great Resignation

Are you giving people a good reason to stay?

12 Nov 2021
Harvard Business Review

The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload

What will it take for us to break free from our collective addiction to meetings?

Re: Ashley V. Whillans (Assistant Professor of Business Administration)

04 Nov 2021
Harvard Business Review

Using Design Thinking to Improve Worker Safety in Manufacturing

One firm in India wanted to understand what leads workers to make unsafe choices, and why unsafe conditions go unreported.

01 Nov 2021
Fast Company

Arrogant Leaders Continue to Rise. Here’s How to Deal with One.

The more deluded people are about their own talents, the easier it is for them to fool others into thinking they are more capable than they are actually.

Re: Amy C. Edmondson (Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management)

01 Nov 2021
Fast Company

To Stem the Great Resignation, Employers Need to Bolster Mental Health Offerings

4 ways leaders can create cultures of wellness that will help employees and strengthen the workplace.

Re: Keith Ferrazzi (MBA 1992)

30 Oct 2021
Wall Street Journal

How Men and Women Treat Deadlines in the Workplace Differently

Women are less likely to ask for extensions. That hurts women—and the companies they work for.

Re: Ashley V. Whillans (Assistant Professor of Business Administration)

29 Oct 2021
Harvard Business Review

Forget Flexibility. Your Employees Want Autonomy.

People want to make their own decisions about when and where they work, according to survey data.