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
Khaleej Times
Professor Lynda Gratton, author of Living the 100-Year Life, reveals what it takes to lead a centenarian life... comfortably. She discusses the inadequacy of the old idea of a career with a clear upward path. A longer working life will also include learning, sideways moves, care, renewal, experimentation and sometimes a deliberate reduction in intensity. These are not failures of ambition; they may sustain capability and engagement across decades.
The Wall Street Journal
Professors Lynda Gratton and Herminia Ibarra talk to The WSJ about how people having to prepare—mentally and financially—to work well into their 70s and 80s requires a new plan. They share their thoughts on how to plan for a career that could easily last 60 years.
Forbes
In an interview with Alli Kushner, Professor Herminia Ibarra reveals that modern work environments have largely replaced traditional, single-employer career ladders with nonlinear transitions and changing seasons. The idea of careers running in seasons offers a sneak preview into Professor Ibarra's forthcoming new book 'The Bonus Years: Reinventing Our Longer Work Lives', out January 2027, which looks at workers over 50, a group living and working longer than any generation before it.
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