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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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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)

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.

24 Mar 2022
Harvard Business Review

To Better Support Working Parents, Talk to Them

A guide to the conversations that leaders, managers, and parents need to be having right now.

24 Mar 2022
Harvard Business Review

Women Face a Double Disadvantage in the Hybrid Workplace

It can exacerbate existing inequities — and create new ones.

23 Feb 2022
The Daily Stoic

Arthur Brooks on the Keys to Finding Happiness | How To Own Things

Prof. Brooks explains how to manage your wants to increase your happiness, why good habits and systems are the actual keys to a happy life, and more.

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

22 Feb 2022
Harvard Business Review

To Reach Your Goals, Embrace Self-Compassion

Four strategies to help you let go of paralyzing perfectionism and move forward.

22 Feb 2022
HBS Alumni Bulletin

Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy

Re: Sadiq Gillani (MBA 2006); By: April White

21 Feb 2022
HBR Women at Work

Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson on Starting and Scaling a Small Business

Hard-won lessons from their longtime business partnership.

Re: Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)