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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.

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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23 Sep 2022
Harvard Business Review

Stop Feeling Guilty About Delegating

Trying to do everything yourself is bad for both you and your team.

22 Sep 2022
Harvard Business Review

4 Tactics that Backfire When Dealing with a Difficult Colleague

Suppressing your emotions doesn’t work. Neither does starting a flame war.

09 Sep 2022
Harvard Business Review

Family Businesses Have a Talent-Acquisition Advantage

Here's how to leverage the cultural values and integrity inherent to family businesses to help attract and retain talent.

08 Sep 2022
HBS Online

Two Methods for Democratizing Power

As a leader, you have the ability to foster power throughout your organization. Here’s a primer on what it means, why it’s beneficial, and two methods for taking actionable next steps.

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

01 Sep 2022
HBR Ideacast

Work-Life Supports That Truly Help Your Organization

Having strong, thoughtful policies around flexibility, time off, and dependent care can pay off for companies.

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)

31 Aug 2022
HBS Managing the Future of Work Project

The Evolving Language of Skills

As work is recast in terms of skills and credentials, is the labor market awash in too much information? Credly's founder and CEO argues that more detail can benefit both workers and employers.

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

30 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

Should You Tell a Prospective Employer About Your Caregiving Responsibilities?

How to avoid derailing your career prospects.

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

17 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

Keeping Your Team Motivated When the Company Is Struggling

Don’t pretend you have all the answers. Do be prepared to deal with the messy emotions people may be experiencing.

16 Aug 2022
HBR Ideacast

Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Coworkers

A conversation about practical ways to handle negative relationships with people at work.

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.

10 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

Stop Offering Career Ladders. Start Offering Career Portfolios.

Here’s how to get started enabling and encouraging career portfolios within your organization.

10 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

Four Ways to Communicate with More Empathy

The most effective leadership communications deliver attention, acknowledge distress, demonstrate care, and take appropriate action.

09 Aug 2022
HBS Online

4 Strategies for Shifting the Power Balance in Your Business

If you want to gain power to make an impact, here’s everything you need to know about how to shift your business’s balance of power.

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

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)

29 Jul 2022
HBS Working Knowledge

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

Women in senior management have more negotiation power than they think in today's labor market, says research by HBS professors Paul Healy and Boris Groysberg. Is it time for more women to seek better opportunities and bigger pay?

Re: Boris Groysberg (Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration); Paul M. Healy (James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research)

29 Jul 2022
Harvard Business Review

Closing the Gap Between Digital Marketing Spending and Performance

How marketers can maximize returns.

27 Jul 2022
Harvard Business Review

How Well Does Your Company Use Analytics?

A framework to identify your strengths and weaknesses.

27 Jul 2022
Harvard Business Review

Navigating Peer Relationships While Climbing the Ladder

The higher you rise, the more complex these relationships become.