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- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Balance Pouring yourself into a single full-time job is the riskiest move you can make. Your parents ’ advice to focus on one career path? It doesn’t work anymore, for reasons ranging from recessions to student loan debt, the gig economy, climate disasters, and a...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
Mumbai, Pune, Goa, and Bangalore. When the pandemic hit, White Owl went from monthly revenues of over 50 million INR to zero overnight as bars and stores shut down. In the first week, Murad estimates he spoke to 30 or 40 investors,...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
globe,” notes Sanchay Gupta (MD/MBA 2022), who cofounded Umbulizer in 2017 and serves as chief medical officer. Before the pandemic developed, Umbulizer’s affordable device was already in use in hospitals and mobile medicine settings in...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans
Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999) Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999) The COVID-19 pandemic has necessarily thrust online learning to the forefront. As executive director of HBS Online—which has reached more than 70,000 learners in 170 countries since...
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Jen Mele
- 16 Mar 2021
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Workplace Design, Post-Pandemic
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in the midst of a View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 10 Mar 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
pandemic and climate change: “The awareness of climate change, and the motivation to do something about it, has increased hugely in the last few years. COVID-19 has helped society realize how interconnected we are, and—even more...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
global health bottlenecks through CHAI (now known as the Clinton Health Access Initiative since its mission has expanded to include pandemics like tuberculosis and malaria). As director of operations research working out of CHAI’s Boston...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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The Great Priority Reset
have come out of the pandemic with a renewed focus on what they want from life and what they are willing to sacrifice to achieve it.” The opportunity for the airport is to become an immersive first step in that journey, rather than a...
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- 05 Apr 2020
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Launching in a World in Limbo
made for watching on a smartphone, in episodes of 10 minutes or less. “Before the spread of the coronavirus, whenever Mr. Katzenberg and Ms. Whitman made their Quibi pitch, they described it as an on-the-go diversion for anyone standing in line at Starbucks or riding...
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- 22 Aug 2020
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Bluemercury’s Marla Beck on How Covid-19 Is Changing the Beauty Business
Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Bluemercury cofounder and CEO Marla Beck (MBA 1998) recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal’s Secrets of Wealthy Women podcast about how her company has adapted during the pandemic. One of those changes has been reacting to...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
1997; since that time, it has overseen six funds totaling more than $1.1 billion. With the coronavirus pandemic and travel restrictions continuing to batter the industry, Depatie takes a clear-eyed look at what the future might hold for a...
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- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
items, is about $35. Simon’s troops clean more than 100,000 pieces a year,” Heath writes. These higher volumes and higher prices helped Parkway reach almost $4 million in annual revenue before the pandemic hit last March. “Simon said most...
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- 16 Nov 2020
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Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results
Moderna released promising news on the progress of their coronavirus vaccine this morning, noting that trials showed it to be 94.5% effective. “In this pandemic, what has been awful from a public health standpoint, an economic standpoint, is the worry people have to...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
Viruses are out there, waiting to strike, and vaccinations are our best defense. But that defense is a man-made system, and therefore subject to breakdowns. In a talk titled “The Significance of Vaccines in Global Health,” Merck CEO Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA ’68) told...
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- 25 Feb 2021
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A CEO’s Guide to Planning a Return to the Office
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and second quarter of 2020 to $211.5...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Turning Point: Ready or Not
pandemic that the virus would find her; yet she had always taken life by the reins. My grandmother had said she wanted to pass in her own house. She did, and it also felt like part of her plan that she passed calmly, on a sultry Sunday...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
pandemic to a pretty healthy level today. As long as the economy stays strong, it’s going to drive a lot of Hispanic employment,” Perez says. Source: National report on early-stage entrepreneurship in the United States: 2020, Kauffman...
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Jennifer Gillespie