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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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08 Sep 2022
Harvard Business Review

Your Family Business Needs a Board

A guide to what it should do — and who should be on it.

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)

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

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

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.

29 Apr 2022
Harvard Business Review

How Business Coalitions Can Have a Strong Local Impact

CEOs of local businesses are teaming up with community leaders to bring about change that is good for everybody in the region.

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.

01 Mar 2022
The Business of Giving

The Importance of the Governance Committee to a Successful Development Program

How to create a sustainable revenue model for nonprofit organizations so they can best fulfill their missions.

Re: F. Warren McFarlan (Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus)

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)

28 Jan 2022
HBS Career Programs

New Resources for Board Membership

Are you’re looking to join your first board, find new board roles, increase your impact as a board member, or find qualified, diverse candidates for your board seats? Visit our new Being on Boards site for tips, tactics, and more.

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 Chair, MBA Required Curriculum)

10 Jan 2022
HBS Working Knowledge

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

The success of open source software offers an innovative—and unexpected—roadmap for social good.

05 Jan 2022
HBS Climate Rising Podcast

Can Capitalism Address Climate Change?

HBS Professor Rebecca Henderson talks through her efforts to reconcile the climate crisis with her faith in the ingenuity of capitalism.

Re: Rebecca M. Henderson (John and Natty McArthur University Professor (Leave of Absence))

31 Dec 2021
HBS Executive Education

Programs on Board Leadership

HBS Executive Education offers a wide range of programs for current and prospective board members, covering leadership, diversity, governance, nonprofits, and more.

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)

19 Nov 2021
Harvard Business Review

Aiming for Sustainability Isn’t Good Enough—The Goal Is Much Higher

Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever, challenges business leaders to ask themselves if they care about the world’s problems.

07 Sep 2021
HBS Alumni Bulletin

Funding His Purpose

Leonardo Letelier left a consulting career to help mission-driven nonprofit and for-profit organizations in Brazil access the financing they need to flourish

Re: Leo Letelier Pimstein (MBA 2002)

31 Aug 2021
Directorship

How Boards Can Help Build Trusted Companies

Moving from theory to action on the principle of stakeholder capitalism represents the foundation of trust against which companies and their boards are judged.

Re: Sandra J. Sucher (MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice)

31 Aug 2021
Harvard Business Review

Boards Need Real Diversity, Not Tokenism

Nasdaq’s new diversity requirements are a bare minimum. To make real progress, boards have to go further.