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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.

The Power of 'Patient Capital': Long-Term Investing in a Short-Term World

On Nov. 10, professors Victoria Ivashina and Joshua D. Lerner will discuss the hurdles facing long-term investors who aim to tackle the world’s most difficult problems, such as climate change, human health, and decaying infrastructure.

Your Whole Self

Executive coach Amy Jen Su (MBA 1997) plots a holistic path to being the leader you want to be.

Leading with Agility in a Time of Colliding Pandemics

Professor Linda Hill explores how to address today’s challenges and prepare your organization for the post-COVID-19 era.

Keep Learning with Alumni Virtual Programs

Expand your knowledge and skills with online programs led by HBS faculty and other subject experts. View our upcoming sessions, or click the Past Programs link to find videos from recent virtual programs.

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18 Nov 2020
HBS Programs

Books@Baker: Joseph Badaracco

Step Back: How to Bring the Art of Reflection into Your Busy Life

22 Oct 2020
Harvard Business Review

“Serious” Leaders Need Self-Care, Too

It’s not just a bunch of hippy-dippy nonsense.

20 Oct 2020
Harvard Business Review

Steps to Get Out of Your Own Way

These research-based tips will help you slow down, fight the fog, and improve both your home life and work life.

19 Oct 2020
Harvard Business Review

Today’s Leaders Need Vulnerability, Not Bravado

Here's how to cultivate it.

Re: Amy C. Edmondson (Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management)

19 Oct 2020
HBR Podcast

Why Learning to Label Your Feelings Makes You a Better Leader

The importance of understanding your emotions at work.

13 Oct 2020
HBS Programs

Virtual Books@Baker with Ashley Whillans

How can we escape the time traps that can consume our days and make us miserable?

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

13 Oct 2020
Harvard Business Review

A Framework for Leaders Facing Difficult Decisions

Five sets of questions to help guide you.

08 Oct 2020
HBS Working Knowledge

Keep Your Weary Workeres Engaged and Motivated

Humans are motivated by four drives: acquire, bond, comprehend, and defend. How managers can use all four to keep employees engaged.

Re: Boris Groysberg (Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration)

07 Oct 2020
Harvard Crimson

'Time Affluence' and Happiness

Research shows those who value time over money tend to be happier, more civically engaged, and more inclined to pursue activities they are passionate about.

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

07 Oct 2020
Harvard Business Review

Women’s Career Trajectories Can Be a Model for an Aging Workforce

Business leaders need to create more flexible systems for all employees so that people can work where and when they want, and so they can craft the path that works best for them across decades.

Re: Jane Fraser (MBA 1994)

03 Oct 2020
HBS Alumni Programs

Managing Happiness (Even in a Pandemic)

Professors Len Schlesinger and Arthur Brooks focus on the role of happiness in our lives in general, and how the current crisis is leading us to ask new questions.

Re: Arthur C. Brooks (Arthur C. Patterson Faculty Fellow); Leonard A. Schlesinger (Baker Foundation Professor Chair, Practice Faculty)

28 Sep 2020
Harvard Business Review

Preventing Burnout Is About Empathetic Leadership

Helping your team members avoid burnout requires stepping outside of your own needs, assessing and removing bias and privilege, actively listening to your people, and then taking action.

26 Sep 2020
Entrepreneur

Here Is What 10 Happiness World Leaders Have to Share about Happiness

Business leaders, entrepreneurs, and startup founders need to look after happiness in their organizations as research consistently shows that happy people are more motivated.

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

25 Sep 2020
The Harvard Gazette

Disruption of Work Relationships Adds to Mental-Health Concerns During Pandemic

Study says these ties have more weight because we are less interconnected these days.

24 Sep 2020
Harvard Business Review

Gravitas Is a Quality You Can Develop

The key to developing your gravitas while being true to yourself is understanding that your real self can change as you build a deeper set of meaningful, trusted connections with other people.

21 Sep 2020
Harvard Business Review

Make Mental Health Your #1 Priority

How to keep the stress and anxiety in your day-to-day life from spilling over into your workplace.

15 Sep 2020
HBR Podcast

Is Happiness at Work Really Attainable?

HBS professor Francesca Gino and Henco Logistics founder Simón Cohen discuss whether focusing on employee happiness at work can drive success.

Re: Francesca Gino (Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration Unit Head, Negotiation, Organizations & Markets)

14 Sep 2020
Apple Podcasts

The Falling Tides of Life

In this episode of The Art of Happiness podcast, HBS senior fellow Arthur Brooks discusses the psychology behind why transitions can be so uncomfortable and why our natural reaction is to resist change.

Re: Arthur C. Brooks (Arthur C. Patterson Faculty Fellow)

14 Sep 2020
Harvard Business Review

5 Ways Organizations Can Get the Most Out of an Executive Coach

Once you’ve retained a coach to work with members of your senior team, what can you do to help people get the most out of the experience?

09 Sep 2020
Harvard Business Review

Remote Workd Doesn't Have to Mean All-Day Video Calls

A recent study explores what it might look like if companies were to break their employees’ chronological chains as well as their ties to the physical workplace.