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  • 01 May 2020
  • In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change.  We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Demystifying the Math of the Coronavirus

By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman
We provide an elementary mathematical description of the spread of the coronavirus. We explain two fundamental relationships: How the rate of growth in new infections is determined by the “effective reproductive number” and how the effective reproductive number is... View Details
Keywords: Coronavirus; Health Pandemics; Mathematical Methods
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  • July 1997
  • Case

Technology Crisis and the Future of Agribusiness: Antibiotic Resistance in Humans and Animals

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Juan Enriquez-Cabot
Keywords: Agribusiness; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • 18 Jun 2020
  • News

Perspectives in Health: Thermo Fisher - Developing Diagnostic and Equipment for the Front Lines of COVID

Keywords: Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 21 Apr 2020
  • News

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

  • 18 Jun 2020
  • News

We Need Better Masks

  • 05 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

The MBA Response: A Calling to Leadership & Service

experience can be especially valuable as the pandemic continues and some traditional jobs and internships are harder to come by. Our Impact Here are some examples of how students like you have made a difference during their time with The... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2021
  • News

Back to School

operations, drawing him to HBS. After receiving his MBA, Simmons took a job in Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s office as policy advisor and director of strategic initiatives, with a focus on education equity, workforce development, and economic development. When the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • November 2020
  • Case

Creating a Virtual Internship at Goldman Sachs

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Iavor I. Bojinov and Emma Salomon
Goldman Sachs runs an annual internship for over 3,000 participants, spread across dozens of the firm's global offices. In 2020, the team brought all its resources to bear to transform the internship program into a fully virtual format in just a few short weeks. The... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Remote Operations; Remote Internship; Internship; Virtual Socialization; Human Capital Management; Human Resources; Management; Health Pandemics; Adaptation
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  • 02 Jul 2024
  • News

The Beauty Guide

of their careers.” It’s a matter of nurturing empathy, notes Freyre, and encouraging others—men and women, leaders and coworkers—to do so as well, especially as the pandemic has blurred the line between personal and professional.... View Details
  • Article

Get Ready to Sell

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Bud Hyler
Time-to-market measures the time to have a product ready to ship. But that’s not revenue and cash. Many firms with superb R&D functions lack an understanding of what’s needed to be ready-to-sell. Meanwhile, relevant tools are increasing in scope and decreasing in cost.... View Details
Keywords: Ready-to-sell; Sales; Health Pandemics; Performance Effectiveness
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  • Jun 2020
  • Panel Discussion

COVID-19 in Africa: Reflections, Challenges and Next Steps

By: John D. Macomber, Mattias Fibiger, Hakeem Belo-Osagie, Shikhar Ghosh, Anywhere Sikochi, Laura Alfaro, Euvin Naidoo and Suraj Srinivasan
In June 2020, the Africa Research Center hosted a four-part webinar series titled COVID-19: Reflections, Challenges and Next Steps. The series brought together alumni and friends from across Africa and provided the opportunity to get to know HBS professors who are... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Macroeconomics; Leadership; Strategy; Africa
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  • 30 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

The COVID-19 pandemic has battered industries around the world, but one sector's prospects aren’t so bleak: venture capital. Startup backers—and private-equity managers in general—say that half of their portfolio companies haven’t been... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking
  • 10 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

Unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists. That gap is becoming increasingly apparent across professions worldwide, for all kinds of working women as the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc in the United States and around... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health
  • 07 Jul 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

COVID-19 and the Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future Research and Action

Keywords: by Ashley Whillans and 28 coauthors; Health; Retail
  • 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
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom

now we're learning more about a deeper level of talking and communicating, which is around connecting. And that's in the realm of something personal, where a leader signals that you matter to me, not just your work.” Dan Morrell: The COVID-19 View Details
Keywords: Zoom
  • 24 May 2022
  • Blog Post

Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan

director of state operations, he was charged with keeping priority projects on track and handling any related crises. A year and a half into his job, the pandemic hit, and he became the point person for the state’s COVID response efforts.... 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
  • 09 Jun 2020
  • Cold Call Podcast

In a Pandemic, What’s the Best Strategy for the Global Vaccine Alliance?

Keywords: Re: Tarun Khanna; Pharmaceutical; Health