Working lives are getting longer. How we build careers, organise work and support people throughout their working lives needs to change.
Led by Academic Co-Directors Professor Lynda Gratton and Professor Herminia Ibarra, the SARI Institute at London Business School conducts and supports research on work, careers and longevity—and brings its findings to wider audiences to inform individual choices, organisational practice and public policy.
Research that operates at three levels
Most research focuses on one part of the picture. The SARI Institute considers all three together, in a single, integrated view.
Work
Understanding how work is changing and how that affects people and organisations.
Careers
Navigating non-linear careers across working lives that may span six decades.
Organisations
Redesigning talent systems for a workforce whose careers no longer follow the old script.
Latest insights
In the news
The Times
Forget the career ladder — modern work is a weave, writes Professor Lynda Gratton, author of Living the 100-Year Life. With AI and economic uncertainty changing working lives, taking stock of skills, relationships and priorities can be as valuable as moving up, she asserts.
SARI Institute news
LBS launches SARI Foundation Institute for Work, Careers and Longevity dedicated to the organisational, institutional and career implications of longer working lives
Forbes
Surviving involuntary job loss demands psychological reconstruction. Professor Herminia Ibarra identifies three key steps: resisting the harsh first story we tell ourselves in shock; seeking out others to make sense of what happened; and actively authoring a new identity through experimentation and forward momentum.
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