Concerns related to COVID policies and compliance are managed through the MBA Disciplinary process, whereby minor concerns are reviewed through the administrative process and more serious concerns are considered by the Conduct Review Board (CRB). In the case of COVID concerns, a student advisory group on COVID concerns will be consulted by the executive director and MBA program chair to provide additional context on the student experience.

You will find the most up-to-date health and safety policies on the HUHS COVID-19 Information website, and we’re all responsible for being aware of them and following any changes in them. The basics, right now, are that HBS requires you to:

1. keep up with your COVID testing regime.
2. cooperate and be honest with contact tracers.
3. quarantine and isolate when required.
4. wear masks when required.
5. not eat or drink where it is not allowed. (For instance, no eating in classrooms.)
6. remove yourself from in-person activities when feeling unwell.
7. follow any limits on the sizes of informal gatherings, which may vary depending on the current COVID situation on-campus
8. follow any limits on travel and the sizes of groups that travel together. We urge you to make only refundable travel plans.

We spoke with a set of student leaders, and they highlighted some key elements of process and accountability that were important. We heard: transparency, fairness, socially cohesive, logical, equitable.

Referring to the guidelines section above, HBS has systems to monitor items 1–3 reliably and will do so. Items 4–8, we cannot monitor consistently, but do receive concerns about them—either through direct reporting or general student observations.

Our hope and request is that students will work together to support whatever the guidance is in the moment—knowing that it is there to protect our community. We ask, in particular, that you work together on items 4–8. The School will take a multi-pronged approach to accountability efforts:

1. We follow up with individuals who are not in compliance with things that we can track (testing, cooperation with contact tracers).
2. We investigate reports of concerns from our community and elsewhere. Please note that anonymous reporting is not permitted, but we will provide the name of the reporter to an student who allegedly violated a policy only if the name is essential in order for that student to know in order to respond to an allegation.
3. We will poll the student body (anonymously) at various points during the year to see how things are going; if there are concerns, we may need to be more restrictive with specific student groups or in our overall policies.

Mitigating and escalating factors are taken into consideration for violations so there is no clear way to provide a map between violation and outcome. All sanctions are possible, and could be used depending on the nature of the violation. Here is an example of how we might consider violations:

Violation by	Sample Violations	Level	Sample Sanctions
Individual	Organizing event that slightly exceeds max at time Lack of compliance in testing (note ongoing non-compliance may result in a student being placed on leave) Attending larger gatherings	Administrative	Warning or Probation (can include things such as community service, apology letter, loss of campus access
	Organizing gatherings that significantly exceed max Putting community at risk through policy violations Disregarding contact tracer instructions	CRB	Probation (including samples above) Suspension Dismissal Expulsion
Group (club, section, or other leadership for group may go through the individual process)	Lack of adherence to event guidelines Section promotion of events that go against the guidelines	N/A	Loss of event privileges Community service or required write-up