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Ellen Desmarais | About

Education unit, navigating it through the pandemic and expanding outreach to educators globally while outpacing industry revenue growth. Most recently, Ellen served as Chief Operating Officer of HBP, building an enterprise-wide approach... View Details

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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

Versi 17 Aug 2022 Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX Michael Schrader 07 Feb 2025 Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation Kasite Ugo-beke 25 Jan 2023 Women, Work,... View Details

27 Apr 2020
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How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

at the end of the first week and at the end of the first month. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) How to Make Furloughs... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

September 2020
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West Side United: Hospitals Tackle the Racial Health and Wealth Gap

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Paul Stramaglia

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. David Ansell, Darlene Hightower, and Ayesho Jaco, leaders of West Side United (WSU), a coalition of Chicago hospitals, community residents, banks, and small businesses conceived in 2016, reviewed progress toward WSU’s goal of ending... View Details

Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; Hospital; Coalition; Health Pandemics; Race; Health; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Change; Leadership; Chicago

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HBS - The year in Review

2021 Annual Report From The Dean Financials PDF Downloads Archive The Year in Review The 2020–21 fiscal year was one of innovation and adaptation. While the pandemic disrupted lives and activities around the world, Harvard Business School... View Details

25 Oct 2022
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Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

New York Yankee slugger Aaron Judge, would surpass the $10.7 billion it reported in 2019—the last full season before pandemic interruptions. The league also signed new TV contracts with ESPN and TBS before this season, and next year will... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

01 May 2020
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Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) How to Make Furloughs More Humane (Harvard Business Review) Coaching Your Team Through... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 May 2021
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Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo

meditation, virtual/in-person fitness, self-care, and athletic apparel—that can be integrated into their gift/reward, incentive, and benefits programs. The pandemic and racial reckoning this past year has not only highlighted the health... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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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

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

11 May 2022
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MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

again and it was my first time expecting. It was also challenging to have children during the height of the pandemic because our loved ones could not visit us or meet the babies. The support I felt from my section, however, made all the... View Details

09 Aug 2021
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OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

lasting implications. According to the United Negro College Fund, “Only 57 percent of Black students have access to the full range of math and science courses necessary for college readiness, compared to 81 percent of Asian American students and 71 percent of white... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

04 Dec 2023
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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

memories took place in national parks. I spent 80% of the pandemic going up and down parks along the Pacific Coast Highway. Using business skills to give back to an organization that had provided so much joy sounded too good to be true. I... View Details

28 May 2020
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Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

With a pandemic temporarily closing many businesses and stifling consumer demand, whole industries, especially those that recently leveraged their balance sheets to take advantage of near-zero interest rates, are seeing their profits... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

30 Jun 2021
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

02 Jun 2021
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A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

to wait 20 or 50 years to reduce them.” "This is something we could change tomorrow." The findings emerge as health care institutions are wrestling with the deep-seated effects of institutional racism. During the past year, amid a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

20 Jan 2023
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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

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

29 Sep 2021
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For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

gain experience, they get worse at predicting timelines." Record venture capital investment and a surge of new businesses launched during the COVID-19 pandemic are raising the stakes for entrepreneurs. In a domain that prizes speed,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

11 Mar 2021
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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

06 Feb 2023
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African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

feel welcomed and wanted for just being me and that felt really good. At what point did you decide to pursue an MBA, and why? I started to think more seriously about pursuing an MBA during COVID. Up until that point I'd only lived in Baltimore — born, raised, college,... View Details

01 Nov 2022
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Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

likely is that managers have OVERESTIMATED the need for face-to-face contact and during the pandemic were (finally) compelled to question the wisdom of spending time and money (not their own!) to travel to often distant places for... View Details