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  • 2013
  • Article

Boston Marathon Bombing Response

By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
Authors Herman B ‘Dutch’ Leonard and Arnold M Howitt say that 12 to 15 years prior, Boston would not have handled the Marathon bombings as effectively as it did in April 2013 in regard to internal institutional preparedness and ability to integrate effort among... View Details
Keywords: Boston Marathon Bombing; Disaster Response; Emergency Preparedness; Crisis Management; Integration; Boston
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  • 2013
  • Article

The Medical Response to the Boston Marathon Bombings

By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
Several factors combined in the aftermath of the bombings to facilitate the delivery of medical care. The authors highlight 10 elements of the emergency medical response that saved dozens of lives in Boston. View Details
Keywords: Boston Marathon Bombing; Emergency Medical Response; Health Care and Treatment; Crisis Management; Boston
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  • 2014
  • Article

Why Was Boston Strong?: Law Enforcement Lessons from the Boston Marathon Bombing

By: Dutch Leonard, Christine M. Cole and Arnold M. Howitt
On April 15, 2013, at 2:49 pm, an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Three people died, and more than 260 others needed hospital care, many having lost limbs or suffered horrific wounds. Those explosions began about... View Details
Keywords: Boston Marathon Bombing; Disaster Response; Emergency Management; Crisis Management; Law Enforcement
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  • July 2014
  • Article

Making Boston Stronger

By: Dutch Leonard, Arnold M. Howitt, Christine M. Cole and Philip B. Heymann
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, a team from Harvard University carried out extensive interviews with participants to identify strengths and weaknesses in the incident response to the terror attack. This abridged version of their final report focuses... View Details
Keywords: Boston Marathon Bombing; Disaster Response; Emergency Preparedness; Crisis Management; Cooperation; Boston
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  • 2013
  • Conference Paper

Preliminary Thoughts and Observation on the Boston Marathon Bombings

By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
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  • 03 Apr 2014
  • News

Measuring the marathon

  • 16 Apr 2014
  • News

Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On Courage, Duty And Resilience After The Marathon Bombings

  • 18 Apr 2013
  • News

Boston Bombing Puts Short-Term Losses on Salons to Circus

  • 03 Apr 2014
  • News

Report: Boston’s History Of Hosting Large Events Helped Marathon Response

  • 16 Mar 2020
  • News

When Greater Boston shut down in 2013, we came together — we can again for the coronavirus

  • Video

Elsa Sze, MBA/MPP 2014: A Student's Perspective

  • December 1987
  • Case

John Hancock Financial Services: Sports Sponsorship

By: Stephen A. Greyser
Senior corporate communications executives of a major financial services firm are reviewing the company's sports sponsorship program and are considering expanding it. Hancock already is the corporate sponsor of the Boston Marathon and has the opportunity to sponsor the... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Performance Evaluation
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    Mitchell B. Weiss

    Mitch Weiss is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the school's course on Public Entrepreneurship—on public leaders and private entrepreneurs who invent a difference in the... View Details

    • March 2021 (Revised June 2022)
    • Case

    James Bryant Conant: Changing the World

    By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
    This case traces the rise of James Conant from a working-class neighborhood in Boston to president of Harvard University. The case describes how Conant, as a young man interested in chemistry and physics, embarks on studies to build his academic credentials and the... View Details
    Keywords: Education; Science; Higher Education; Mission and Purpose; Research; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Education Industry; Boston
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      Kevin P. Mohan

      Kevin P. Mohan joined the Negotiation unit at Harvard Business School in 2012.  He teaches Negotiation and Deals in the MBA program, in the Owners, Presidents, and Managers program, and in a number of other Executive Education programs at Harvard. He also... View Details

      • Web

      Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

      Company, 1919–1941 Henry F. Henderson, Jr. Henderson (H. F.) Industries, 1952–Present Bruce D. Henderson Boston Consulting Group, 1968–1980 Paul C. Henshaw Homestake Mining Company, 1971–1982 Stuart K. Hensley Warner-Lambert Corporation,... View Details
      • Web

      1.5 Attendance - MBA

      read and adhere to this policy, which provides details related to all matters concerning HBS class attendance. Residency Requirement All MBA students are required to be in residence in the Boston area during the academic term and attend... View Details
      • Web

      Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

      Management at Northwestern University. Ellen and Michael live in the Greater Boston area. Alan N. Berro (MBA 1986) Fellowship The Alan N. Berro Fellowship was established through the generosity of Alan N. Berro (MBA 1986) in honor of his... View Details
      • 25 Jan 2021
      • Book

      In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

      How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
      • 01 Mar 2024
      • News

      In Harmony

      walked here with his mother, who hid in a cave somewhere on the mountain with her mother and three siblings during the Korean War. A bomb blast—friendly fire from US troops—killed everyone except Kim’s mother and her younger brother. The... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea