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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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10 Jan 2023
HBR Ideacast

Work Insights from the World’s Longest Happiness Study

A conversation with Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger about what makes us happy in the long term.

09 Jan 2023
Financial Times

The Pursuit of Profit with Purpose Requires Patience

The way in which your career aligns with your values may well be a process of evolution.

Re: George Serafeim (Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration)

02 Jan 2023
Aspen Institute

What if Wanting Less Gets You More?

Most of us know where to find quick hits of pleasure and enjoyment. But what about satisfaction that lasts for years, or decades, or a lifetime? Professor Arthur Brooks has some thoughts.

Re: Arthur C. Brooks (Professor of Management Practice)

08 Dec 2022
Harvard Business Review

Are You Too Emotionally Invested in Your Job?

Four red flags to watch out for.

29 Nov 2022
Bloomberg

Here are the Five Benefits US Employees Want Most

In the ongoing war for talent, these perks will be even more important in 2023.

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

24 Oct 2022
The Atlantic

How to Spend Time on What You Value

We use our time to race against the clock of productivity—which may be the one thing that holds us back from enjoying the free time we crave.

Re: Arthur C. Brooks (Professor of Management Practice); Ashley V. Whillans (Assistant Professor of Business Administration)

10 Oct 2022
HBR Podcast

How Do I Get Promoted Without a Clear Career Path?

A leader learns how to advocate for himself to reach his long-term career goals.

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.

31 Aug 2022
Thrive

How to Reclaim Your Time and Happiness

A look at scientific-backed tools to achieve time affluence and increase life satisfaction.

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

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)

27 Jul 2022
Harvard Business Review

Navigating Peer Relationships While Climbing the Ladder

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

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)

17 Jun 2022
Live from Klarman Hall

From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

Effectiveness and wellbeing at all stages of life comes not from holding on to past achievements, but from cultivating new habits and a different understanding of success and fulfillment

Re: Arthur C. Brooks (Professor of Management Practice)

07 Jun 2022
Live from Klarman Hall

Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies

A compelling reassessment of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms get purpose right

Re: Ranjay Gulati (Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration)

01 Jun 2022
HBS Alumni Bulletin

Blissful Thinking

Happiness research is all the rage. How understanding the origins of joy can improve the way we lead organizations—and our personal lives

Re: Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007); Arthur C. Brooks (Professor of Management Practice); Leonard A. Schlesinger (Baker Foundation Professor Chair, Practice Faculty); By: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

17 May 2022
Harvard Business Review

3 Strategies for Managing an Understaffed Team

Amid the Great Resignation’s persistent talent shortage, many managers are finding that their usual go-to solutions aren’t enough.

07 Apr 2022
Harvard Business Review

The Science of Choking Under Pressure

What leaders can learn from elite athletes about performing in the biggest moments.

07 Apr 2022
HBR Ideacast

Find Joy in Any Job: Why Am I Unhappy at Work?

How to design your work to focus on what you love.

06 Apr 2022
Harvard Business Review

The “Great Resignation” Is a Misnomer

People aren’t just quitting their jobs — they’re aspiring to new ways of life.

06 Apr 2022
Harvard Business Review

5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership

Understanding why you’re in the room is more important than being the smartest one in it.

Re: Hubert Joly (Senior Lecturer of Business Administration)