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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.

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

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.

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)

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)

02 Oct 2020
Harvard ManageMentor

Career Planning with Harvard ManageMentor

From interviewing tactics to preparing for a job relocation, HMM has articles and resources to help you navigate your next career move.

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.

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.

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)

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.

08 Sep 2020
Harvard Business Review

How to Identify a Family-Friendly Employer

Learning how a company has supported other parents will help you understand if its actions and culture align with what you want and need.

01 Sep 2020
Harvard Business Review

When Your Boss Doesn't Respect Your Family Commitments

How should you handle a boss who refuses to acknowledge the other demands on your time?

13 Aug 2020
HBS Working Knowledge

How to Support COVID-Weary Employees

Six solutions to ease the stress many employees are experiencing in the new workplace.

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

26 Jun 2020
Harvard Business Review

How Different Personality Types Cope with an Always-On Culture

Looking at the four strategies in light of personality type can help you identify how to use them most effectively to reduce the negative effects of being always on.

By: John Hackston

25 Jun 2020
Harvard Business Review

Lessons from a Working Mom on “Doing It All”

The difference between going to bed feeling content or disappointed at the end of the day has a lot to do with the expectations we set for ourselves.

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

24 Jun 2020
Harvard Business Review

How to Overcome Your Fear of Making Mistakes

No one can reduce mistakes to zero, but you can learn to harness your drive to prevent them and channel it into better decision making.

15 Jun 2020
HBR Women at Work

Unpause Yourself

Despite the pandemic, there are steps you can take to get where you want to be, whether that’s restarting a career move, protecting a job you love, or finding a new one.

Re: Kathleen L. McGinn (Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Strategy and Recruiting)

10 Jun 2020
HBS Career Programs

Join a Virtual Job Search Team

Work with a small group of fellow alumni, led by a career coach, to complete self-assessments, update your collateral, and identify networks to pursue as you take your next step.