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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
Illustration by David Plunkert Illustration by David Plunkert Edited by Dan Morrell You wrote recently that the story of British explorer Ernest Shackleton, who led an expedition to Antarctica in 1914, is highly relevant for leaders during this View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
chain trends, with a focus on the events of 2017 to 2022. They found that trade has rebounded from the pandemic shock, but that aggregate measures—such as American goods imports—mask big changes in the origins of those goods. The research... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- News
How Everlywell Pulled Off Its COVID-19 Pivot in Two Weeks
- 07 May 2025
- News
Scaling New Heights
Brianna Brown, chief product officer at City Fresh Foods in Boston. (Photo/video credit: Susan Young) City Fresh Foods has long served nutritious meals to students, seniors, and daycare centers in Greater Boston’s under-resourced communities. But when the company saw... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
CEO of Vanguard Group; Peter Slavin (MBA 1990) President, Massachusetts General Hospital; and Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) Executive Chairman at Firefly Health. Supporting Election Operations Seeing that the COVID-19 pandemic could have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
that yes, we disagree, but we have bought into the common enterprise of trying to build a free and prosperous society. Has business been supportive of government and the democratic system in the United States? How has the pandemic changed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Action Plan: Finding Fluency
Dunaway, the pandemic meant rethinking all of the company’s marketing plans. A veteran of established brands such as Frito-Lay, Yahoo, and Nintendo, Dunaway joined Duolingo in 2018 to build a marketing department from scratch with a focus... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
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,... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
GAP See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how business and school leaders are addressing inequities in education. BRIDGING THE GAP Since the start of the pandemic in early 2020, Alison has... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
Khan Academy across 190 countries and 50 languages. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award, Associate Editor Julia Hanna talks to Khan about how the nonprofit got its start and the role it played when the View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
What to Do When Work Feels Meaningless
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Jun 2021
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Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada
Michelle Banik, Heather Stark (MBA 1999), Penny Collenette, and Jen Lee Koss (MBA 2008) When the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender Gap Report came out at the end of March, the news was grim. The significant economic impact of the COVID-19 View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
myself in a difficult situation,” says Powers. Such internships enable MBA students to gain valuable work experience, explore career options, and apply their classroom learnings. As the economic consequences of the pandemic took hold,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- News
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... View Details