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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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09 Sep 2022
Harvard Business Review

How Founders Self-Destruct Under Pressure

Many leaders’ coping mechanisms can seriously backfire.

09 Sep 2022
Harvard Business Review

Family Businesses Have a Talent-Acquisition Advantage

Here's how to leverage the cultural values and integrity inherent to family businesses to help attract and retain talent.

08 Sep 2022
HBS Working Knowledge

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time to Lead. Are You Ready?

Generation X and Millennials have the opportunity to bring more collaboration and purpose to business.

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.

08 Sep 2022
HBS Online

Two Methods for Democratizing Power

As a leader, you have the ability to foster power throughout your organization. Here’s a primer on what it means, why it’s beneficial, and two methods for taking actionable next steps.

Re: Julie Battilana (Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration)

07 Sep 2022
Harvard Business Review

The Costs of Being a Perfectionist Manager

Managing your high expectations can actually improve your team’s performance.

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.

01 Sep 2022
Amazing Business Radio Podcast

Selling with Service

How sales and customer service is changing and how organizations, from the frontlines to the C-suite, can adapt.

Re: Frank V. Cespedes (MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration)

01 Sep 2022
Washington Post

Bosses Say Remote Work Kills Culture. These Companies Disagree.

Some business leaders worry remote options could destroy their company culture. But companies that have operated remotely for years say culture doesn’t come from a physical office.

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

01 Sep 2022
BBC

Why Some Employers Won’t Give In to Flexibility

More and more employees want autonomy at work – and it’s become a major factor in whether they quit. Why are some companies digging in their heels against it?

Re: Tsedal Neeley (Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research)

31 Aug 2022
HBS Managing the Future of Work Project

The Evolving Language of Skills

As work is recast in terms of skills and credentials, is the labor market awash in too much information? Credly's founder and CEO argues that more detail can benefit both workers and employers.

Re: Joseph B. Fuller (Professor of Management Practice)

31 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

Leading with Confidence in Uncertain Times

If you are looking for ideas to manage the uncertain future, here are 5 tools for thinking through uncertainty and using it to plan and make decisions.

Re: Max H. Bazerman (Jesse Isidor Straus 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)

17 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

Keeping Your Team Motivated When the Company Is Struggling

Don’t pretend you have all the answers. Do be prepared to deal with the messy emotions people may be experiencing.

16 Aug 2022
HBR Ideacast

Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Coworkers

A conversation about practical ways to handle negative relationships with people at work.

16 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

As Climate Risk Grows, So Will Costs for Small Businesses

Lessons in risk management based on research on Texas businesses affected by Hurricane Harvey.

16 Aug 2022
HBS Working Knowledge

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

With the specter of recession looming, many worried founders and executives are aggressively shoring up cash. But shrewd entrepreneurs are using these six tactics instead to gain advantage.

Re: Jeffrey J. Bussgang (Senior Lecturer of Business Administration)

11 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

Keeping Hybrid Employees Engaged

How you can foster emotional connection, team bonding, and fun to compensate for the loss of proximity in the office.

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
Harvard Business Review

Stop Offering Career Ladders. Start Offering Career Portfolios.

Here’s how to get started enabling and encouraging career portfolios within your organization.