In March 2020, first-year MBA students and their prospective internship employers faced an unprecedented challenge: What to do about summer internships during a global health pandemic? While some students saw internship opportunities sizzle, Humana leveraged their infrastructure which already supported remote work, to bring on even more talent than originally planned. [...]

Paulina Llano (MBA 2022) has traveled the world for education and business. She now finds herself in Boston at Harvard Business School and is spending the summer interning for a Cambridge-based pharmaceutical and biotech company that has become a household name—Moderna. [...]

In the wake of COVID-19, organizations around the world quickly made changes to how they got work done, including managing summer internships. For many organizations, that meant creating remote internship programs in 2020 that will stay in place through summer 2021. [...]

In 2020, some of our most popular articles reflect the challenges faced throughout the business world and beyond, both before and during COVID-19. This year has tested our abilities to change and adapt, and to rally together to enact meaningful change in society. [...]

The MS/MBA curriculum builds upon students’ existing technical skills and, through the MBA Program’s first-year required curriculum, adds knowledge in nearly every essential aspect of business, including finance, leadership, marketing, and operations. As a result, students are equipped to add significant value in their summer internship, even as a career switcher. [...]