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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.

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  • 14 Dec 2022
  • Harvard Business Review
4 Strategies to Secure a Corporate Board Seat
Recruiters and boards tend to look for C-suite candidates who resemble current and past directors. For underrepresented candidates, this presents challenges, and opportunities.
  • 14 Dec 2022
  • Financial Times
How to Pay Executives in the Age of Stakeholder Capitalism
Soaring executive pay is prompting resistance from those who believe business should play a role in shaping a fairer, more equitable society.
Re: Lynn S. Paine (Baker Foundation Professor John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita)
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  • 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)
  • 25 Nov 2022
  • Harvard Business Review
How Companies Can Partner with Nonprofits
Done well, these partnerships can boost growth, shareholder value, and societal impact.
  • 25 Nov 2022
  • Harvard Business Review
Does Your Board Need an Executive Chair?
Three questions to ask before appointing one.
  • 14 Nov 2022
  • Harvard Business Review
Startups Need an ESG Strategy
Be aware of the material risks and opportunities in your industry, which is essentially what a careful ESG strategy provides.
  • 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
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • 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.
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  • 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)
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  • 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))
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