Our Culture and Benefits

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Where business meets personal

From learners and leaders, to runners and readers, to bird watchers, gardeners, knitters, and proud parents (of two- and four-legged children), you’ll find more than colleagues at AA&D. Discover a virtual and in-person community complete with a community recipe site, softball, pets (and pets and pets), and legendary Halloween celebrations!

At AA&D, we...

...learn together:

  • Multifaceted onboarding to help you launch.
  • Intentional focus on career development ensures you have the resources to thrive.
  • Robust learning programs devoted to developing your professional skills and competencies.

...have fun together: 

  • Don your scariest, silliest, or most clever costume for HallowAAD (our annual department-wide Halloween celebration).
  • Gather your favorite recipes to share in our staff cookbook.
  • Need another excuse to don your favorite top hat or fascinator? We love to celebrate our graduating colleagues at our GrAADuation Celebration.

...recognize each other:

  • We know a “thank you” or a “great job” can go a long way, and we make it fun and easy to recognize colleagues at all levels.
  • Through both monthly and annual AA&D staff recognition, we love to highlight and celebrate our colleagues' contributions to a better AA&D. 

...work together:

  • We leverage Wiley's Everything DiSC® behavioral assessment and tools to help staff across levels, roles, and departments to collaborate and communicate effectively together.
  • We communicate from the top down and bottom up. With biweekly all-staff meetings hosted by our VP, continual opportunities to provide staff feedback, and a robust department intranet, you’ll never be out of the loop.

...are our authentic, whole, messy, talented, fun, interesting, curious selves:

  • Our flexible work environment will give you the tools to help make work fit in the context of your life—and we know that might look a little different for every role and every person.
  • If caregiving is part of that balancing act for you, you’ll find a community of colleagues and a wealth of resources here.
  • Got a talent? We would love to have you sing with our AA&D choir or take a few pitches with our (reigning champion) softball team!
  • Not one for the stage or the field? We have colleagues connecting on good reads, challenging runs, gardening, knitting, bird-watching, whatever adorable things our pets are doing right now, and more.

By the way, in addition to all the benefits of being part of AA&D’s joyful, thoughtful, and inclusive culture, Harvard has some pretty great employee benefits as well! Comprehensive health care, a generous 401(k) plan, flexible spending accounts for medical and child care, seriously discounted T passes, and so much more are available to all full-time employees. 

Learn More About Harvard’s Benefits