COVID - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we spent a lot of time thinking about how the stages of disasters unfold: the early needs of immediate relief and then the longer-term needs of recovery. At BlackRock, COVID added an additional layer of... View Details

18 Apr 2022
News

Home Grown

the COVID era, has gone away. JH: I wondered, doing what you’ve done since launching InMobi in 2008 and now Glance, I think it was 2017, what keeps you going, because it’s such a demanding schedule. And also, how do you keep the people... View Details

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

to work in a distributed environment. And then COVID hit. Blanding: How did the pandemic change or inform the topic as you were writing it? Neeley: The pandemic accelerated the completion of the book. I was able to distill the key... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 May 2022
News

Lesson Plans

I’ve observed it directly talking to teachers: extreme fatigue. People have theories about what’s causing it two years on Zoom, every week having changing COVID guidelines. Not just what’s going on in your work environment at the school... View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

we made previously far longer than we should, hoping that the world will return back to “normal.” With the far-reaching impact of COVID becoming more clear by the day, nonprofit leaders need to be clear about their core mission, fearless... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

11 Jun 2021
News

The Power of Resilience

caregivers. And that is an important pillar of work that I continue to do. But an extension of that that I'd always been passionate about and really got accelerated by the launch of quarantine and COVID is the focus on resilience and... View Details

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

said: Julie Battilana: Put people and the planet at economy's core My hope is that President Biden and his team will help all of us rebuild strong democratic foundations, and place human beings and the planet back at the core of our economic system. The View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Aug 2020
News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

it's also caused us to more broadly think in the product about how we can better include life events and how we help people plan. COVID isn't the only life event that's going to happen to our users. People have children. People move homes... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

during COVID In the Hot Seat Wisdom, war stories, and what’s next for global business from former GE CEO Jeff Immelt Complete Table of Contents June 2021 Alumni Achievement Awards 2021 Recipients of the School’s highest honor talk about... View Details

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Print View - Course Catalog

organization through unexpected disaster, paying close attention to how these aspects of leadership differ from those relied on in more stable environments. We will examine the “rules of the road” or “dashboard” of crisis leadership with reference to several widespread... View Details

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