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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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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.

31 Mar 2022
HBR Podcast

Coaching Real Leaders

Advice on walking a tightrope between addressing a superior’s microaggressions and making her team feel safe.

24 Mar 2022
Harvard Business Review

Women Face a Double Disadvantage in the Hybrid Workplace

It can exacerbate existing inequities — and create new ones.

08 Mar 2022
Newsweek

Gender Equity at Work Advances at 'Glacial Pace,' New Harvard Survey Shows

How women who have made it through the gauntlet of gender bias, subtle discrimination, and stereotypic assumptions about their capabilities assess the phenomena that disadvantage them and their peers.

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

02 Mar 2022
Harvard Business Review

How Bias Against Women Persists in Female-Dominated Workplaces

A look inside the ongoing barriers women face in law, health care, faith-based nonprofits, and higher education.

01 Mar 2022
Fortune

4 Warning Signs of a Psychologically Unsafe Culture for Women of Color

Without psychological safety, even knowledgeable and well-meaning people cannot contribute at the critical moments that they are needed, because they’re reluctant to be wrong, stand out, or upset their manager.

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

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)

31 Jan 2022
Harvard Business Review

The “Angry Black Woman” Stereotype at Work

Researchers explore where it came from, why it’s so destructive, and how to dismantle it.

19 Jan 2022
Harvard Business Review

How Women Can Get Comfortable “Playing Politics” at Work

Five key mindset shifts to make it empowering instead of icky.

22 Dec 2021
Harvard Business Review

When People Assume You’re Not In Charge Because You’re a Woman

While the real issue of role incredulity is systemic, there are steps organizational leaders, workplace allies, and women themselves can take to prevent and correct it.

01 Dec 2021
HBS Alumni Programs

Leading a Glass-Shattering Organization

HBS Gender Initiative Director Colleen Ammerman and Professor Boris Groysberg break apart myths about why gender inequality persists and what can be done about it.

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

22 Nov 2021
HBR Women at Work

Becoming a Leader When Everything Is Shifting

Don’t let remote work dissuade you from taking on that leadership role: The levers haven’t changed.

04 Nov 2021
Harvard Business Review

Navigating Work While Undergoing Fertility Treatments

Guidance on several challenges, including managing appointments and whether to tell your boss.

30 Oct 2021
Wall Street Journal

How Men and Women Treat Deadlines in the Workplace Differently

Women are less likely to ask for extensions. That hurts women—and the companies they work for.

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

22 Oct 2021
Harvard Business Review

Women Do More to Fight Burnout — and It’s Burning Them Out

Three strategies to help companies break this vicious cycle.

01 Sep 2021
HBS Working Knowledge

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

Gender bias often taints performance reviews, but applying three principles can help women gain meaningful insights.

Re: Francesca Gino (Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration)

02 Aug 2021
Harvard Business Review

Black Women Aren’t Paid Fairly – And It Starts as Early as Age 16

Here are four steps to take if you suspect you’re not being paid fairly.

14 Jul 2021
Harvard Business Review

End Imposter Syndrome in Your Workplace

Leaders who want women to lend their full talents and expertise must examine the culture at work — not question women's confidence at work.

23 Jun 2021
HBS Working Knowledge

One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

Early feedback is essential to launching new products, but women entrepreneurs are more likely to receive input from men.

22 Jun 2021
HBS Clubs

Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada

Club panel discussion explores ways to counteract in business impact of the pandemic

Re: Heather Stark (MBA 1999); Jen Koss (MBA 2008)