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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
- 20 Dec 2023
- News
New School
In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, Curriculum Associates, a Massachusetts-based company that creates research-based print and online instructional and assessment tools, made the decision to make its products free to teachers and... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
challenging part? It’s been a joy to chart the direction of a new commercial venture. Starting from the business equivalent of tabula rasa has been extremely invigorating. Some would say launching an entertainment production company months before a global View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
that those who had the least personal contact as a result of pandemic lockdowns now want it the most. “Some of the newest teammates who spent years on college campuses virtually are hungriest for that in-person connection when they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
significantly change the trajectory of their lives. I loved being part of that. You’ve talked about the pandemic as the gateway to the School’s future. What opportunities for HBS do you see ahead? I say this in the spirit of finding the... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
what assets to protect and which people to move? We all hope Al Gore and Greta Thunberg fix everything, but if they don’t, then homeowners, businesses, universities, and governments will have to do something.” If the pandemic laid bare... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Engaging Students More Deeply
producing such cases rose in the 2010s as the technology improved, but it boomed in 2020 when the pandemic forced HBS into online classrooms and teachers were in search of the best ways to engage students in that new environment. The... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Feb 2021
- News
"Moderna" Case Discussion with CEO Stéphane Bancel
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
changed rapidly. “When I decided to take on that role, the world looked very different than it did later that spring,” recalls Diagne. “I had no idea that job would turn into pandemic response and economic recovery.” Worldwide, crisis... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
economic opportunity, and she notes all the companies she funded held on during the pandemic in part because of that level-headed mentality. “I know there are people who feel like the ESG stuff is a distraction,” she says. “We think those... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
we've all kind of picked our heads up and come back to the project of work. We all survived a pandemic and kept the economy going. And we're now taking that experience and investing in this shared project with quite profoundly different... View Details
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Screen Time
iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to enjoy one another’s company in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
of nurturing empathy, says Freyre, and encouraging others—both men and women, leaders and coworkers—to do so as well, especially as the pandemic has blurred the line between personal and professional. “If I wasn’t making an effort to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 29 Jan 2024
- News
On the Road to Recovery
pandemic has put a spotlight on the importance of nurses in the health care sector, and the high demand for their skills has given nurses greater bargaining power to negotiate higher salaries and better working conditions. “I think the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
Dr. Margaret Chan (PMD 61, 1991) is worried. She believes that a serious human influenza pandemic will almost certainly occur at some time in the near future. Chan is particularly concerned by the avian influenza virus H5N1 that is... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
everyone was just stunned. So before we get to the story of Panera and the pandemic and all that stuff, tell us a little bit about your personal journey. Where you come from and how you got to where you are today—and all the ups and downs... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
January 2022, Tilden stepped into an increasingly popular party. The rise of non-alcoholic (NA) beverages has been one of the big headlines in the industry, where sales of beer grew almost 70 percent from 2016 to 2021, according to Euromonitor, and spirits shot up 113... View Details