For nearly two decades, Google has been working on technology that helps people collaborate across continents. “We want to connect people all over the world so that they can to do great things together,” says Suzanne Frey, SF ’06, vice president of engineering and product at the global dynamo.

As Executive Director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, Elisabeth Reynolds coordinates a distinctly “MIT” initiative.

Entrepreneur and MIT Sloan MBA Student, Britt Chong, is building an innovative tool to help communities take action against climate change.

With employers filling 60 percent fewer management positions and otherwise guaranteed internship opportunities succumbing to budget cuts amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students at MIT Sloan were scrambling ahead of the summer of 2020.

“The operations of most enterprises and organizations during normal times are designed to address many sources of uncertainty,” says Retsef Levi, the J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Management at MIT Sloan and codirector of the Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program.

“It’s natural to react to a crisis in a purely tactical manner,” says Astellas Pharma President Percival Barretto-Ko, SF ’11.

Calocurb Ltd. CEO Sarah Kennedy, SF ’11, clearly understands how fortunate she and her company have been in the time of COVID-19.

If you ask Rocio Fonseca, SF ’14 , how she is tackling the present crisis, don’t be surprised if she retorts, “Which one?”