COVID - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2024
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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

11 Jun 2021
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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

06 Jan 2021
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

love. I am very eager to get started, and even as I say that I am aware that we are in a highly unusual time at the School and in the world with the COVID pandemic, but I could not be prouder of how the faculty, the students, and the... View Details

26 Aug 2020
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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

16 Nov 2021
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Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest

events in person by following COVID safety protocols. Another 16 groups hosted virtual events, while three groups offered hybrid events of small gatherings with a virtual participation option. The HBS Club of India hosted in-person events... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office

asynchronously. But I think there’s a second element of shoulder-tapping that relates to socialization and informal discussions. The model there has been to informally mix people randomly to create these water-cooler moments. I was on a panel recently and a woman was... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

15 Jun 2021
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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

10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

thinking and your strategy? SWG: That's such an important point because the stereotype is that all older adults don't know technology. DM: Right. SWG: Many, many, many are using—and particularly in part because of COVID virtually every... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

offerings? —Trevor O’Hoy (AMP 157, 1999) I refer to COVID as the passage to HBS's future. In just a few months, the School made transitions that would ordinarily have taken us years to realize. The hybrid classroom we developed—with the... View Details

05 May 2022
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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

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