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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.

Balancing Profitability and Social Accountability

Professors Debora Spar and George Serafeim discuss ways to develop an action plan to drive and measure performance improvement on key environmental and social issues.

Big Ideas from Klarman Hall

Watch recent videos featuring HBS faculty members, alumni, and other subject experts addressing timely topics on business and society, recorded live in Klarman Hall. Includes presentations from the 2022 Fall Reunions and other events.

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 Feb 2023
Harvard Business Review

For Female Founders, Fundraising Only from Female VCs Comes at a Cost

New research suggests that exclusive support from female investors may be a mixed blessing because it can make it harder to raise additional rounds of financing.

08 Dec 2022
Harvard Business Review

Choose Courage Over Confidence

Self-doubt is a pervasive and often paralyzing concern, particularly for women. Here are three strategies to help you combat it.

07 Nov 2022
HBS Deep Purpose

Mumzworld Founder Mona Ataya: Empowering Women in the Middle East

Company founder explains the critical importance of finding talent that aligns with your values to maximize a company’s social and financial performance.

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

10 Oct 2022
HBR Women at Work

Amy Gallo offers advice on how to turn things around with a difficult colleague.

16 Sep 2022
Harvard Business Review

3 Workplace Biases that Derail Mid-Career Women

After speaking to 100 senior women executives, the authors identified three distinct kinds of bias and discrimination faced by mid-career women and offer recommendations for overcoming them.

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

29 Jul 2022
HBS Working Knowledge

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

Women in senior management have more negotiation power than they think in today's labor market, says research by HBS professors Paul Healy and Boris Groysberg. Is it time for more women to seek better opportunities and bigger pay?

Re: Boris Groysberg (Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration); Paul M. Healy (James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research)

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)