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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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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

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)

17 Feb 2022
HBS Working Knowledge

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

At a time when employees expect more from their jobs, companies should make space for individuality, Ranjay Gulati argues in this excerpt from his book, Deep Purpose.

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

15 Feb 2022
HBS Working Knowledge

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

The second half of your life could be better than the first. Really... How letting go of past glory can open the possibilities of life's "second curve."

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

14 Feb 2022
Wall Street Journal

Harvard Wants MBAs to Learn How to Be Happy at Work

To lead a happy team, you have to learn to be happy yourself, according to a Harvard Business School course that’s been popular in the pandemic.

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

12 Feb 2022
MarketWatch

If your job doesn’t give you purposeful work, you owe it to yourself to join the ‘Great Reshuffle’

Helping employees find purpose is Job No. 1 for employers to retain talent

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

07 Feb 2022
HBS Alumni Programs

Leading High-Performance Companies with Purpose

HBS professor Ranjay Gulati explores the power of purpose, an underutilized approach that can embed work and life with meaning and deliver impressive benefits for customers, suppliers, employees, and communities.

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

01 Feb 2022
Harvard Gazette

Want to be a good person? Stop trying so hard.

Social psychologist Dolly Chugh says being perfect is impossible and it’s more productive to opt for ‘goodish’

Re: Max H. Bazerman (Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration)

20 Jan 2022
HBS Working Knowledge

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

Many workers feel battered and wary after almost two years of COVID-19 instability. But it's not too late for managers to repair these relationships.

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

04 Jan 2022
Harvard Business Review

The Upside of Feeling Uncertain About Your Career

Turn your professional angst into a competitive advantage.