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- 02 Jul 2024
- News
The Beauty Guide
Courtesy Michelle Freyre When Michelle Freyre (MBA 1997) was a brand manager at Neutrogena, Michael McNamara, global president of the beauty brand at the time, asked what she wanted to do with her career. She answered, “I want to be you. I want to run Neutrogena.”... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 22 Aug 2020
- News
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... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking and Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow, saw another catastrophe on the horizon: widespread... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
experience.” — Dustin Hilt Director of HBS Live Programming The pandemic drove the accelerated completion of the two classrooms to accommodate the June start of a new online version of Executive Education’s Program for Leadership... 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
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
of your work? “Working for a hunger-relief organization during a pandemic has been tremendously challenging. We’ve had to respond quickly to meet the rapidly increasing need in our communities, which seemed to double overnight. We have... View Details
- 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
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
Clubs News Clubs News Webinars Connect Black Alumni Taking Leadership in Turbulent Times Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, a shaky economy, and racial unrest across the country, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) has quickly developed a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Wheels Up
Bit by bit, people are flying again. At Dublin Airport, travel is down from a record 33 million passengers in 2019 to a forecasted 8 to 9 million in 2021. Still, it’s a start—and travelers in and out of Ireland’s capital soon will have the benefit of a newly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
restaurants—we decided that it wouldn’t be prudent to offer in-person classes. Our classes have been almost entirely virtual since mid-March 2020. This pandemic has interrupted the pursuit of higher education for many of our students.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
different perspectives. But I’m also willing to take ownership. That’s not in contradiction to the first point. Leaders have to make decisions and provide vision and direction to motivate people to execute. Unlike the last crisis, which had roots in the financial... View Details
- 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
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
few pennies to that dollar. Lack of social supports, such as child care and paid sick leave, is another ever-present issue the pandemic laid bare. It could explain why some women have elected to leave the workforce altogether: “Women have... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News