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Getting people to apply to Harvard is easy. Degree from an elite university? Yes, please!
Harvard Online, however? Well, that can prove a bit more challenging. Online education is a crowded marketplace with lots of offerings, all at different price points, and each serving students with a distinct set of value propositions.
Ryan Frazier is the Managing Director Technology at Harvard Business School Online. He joined us on this episode of The Possibilities Podcast to talk about how the team at Harvard developed online education pre-COVID and how they are managing the opportunities and challenges the pandemic presents.
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What's something in e-commerce that's not sexy, but it's very, very important?
Answer: Data
With the accelerated online buying trend brought to you by COVID-19, data's role is growing more and more important, but also tougher to understand and manage.
Aisha Khan is the Chief Strategy Officer at Pharmapacks and an Adjunct Professor of data visualization and supply chain management at Rutgers University. 
She joined us on this episode of The Possibilities Podcast to talk about her perspectives on the way COVID-19 is changing e-commerce and the role of data and data management.
Here's what we discussed with Aisha:
The internal perspective on COVID and commerce The change management perspective Why packaging is suddenly more important than ever And all things data You can find this interview, and many more, by subscribing to The Possibilities Podcast on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, or here. Looking for additional content? Check out our blog.

Certain things matter in your digital transformation — namely, data, storage, voice, and time. If you're not changing one of those things in a profound way, you're not transforming. You're just adapting in order to survive an environmental change.
That's why COVID-19 may not be the driver of digital transformation we thought it would be. 
Alberto Cozer is the Senior Global IT Platforms Manager at Nestlé. He joined us on this episode of The Possibilities Podcast to talk about the digital transformation journey and why a post-COVID-19 world may not have experienced the transformation many people expect.
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Today's world isn't January 2020. 
 
The coronavirus and the response to its spread have reshaped global supply chains (among a few other things). How are planning departments looking into the future? What's happening on the ground as forecasters scramble to keep supply equal to demand? 
 
Eric Wilson is the director of thought leadership at the Institute of Business Forecasting and Planning.
 
He joined us on this episode of The Possibilities Podcast to talk about how planners and forecasters are coping with limited inventory, supply issues, customer service, and razor-thin profit margins all at the same time.
 
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Everybody wants to be innovative, right? But what does that mean? And how do you go from having a conversation about innovation to actually getting everybody in a room together to start talking about some problem?
 
Ashish Srivastava leads the innovation hub within MindTree, which they call "the digital pumpkin," and Nelly Ortiz is the head of strategy and innovation at the same company.
 
Ashish and Nelly joined us on this episode of The Possibilities Podcast to talk about digital leadership and innovation, what they mean for business outcomes and how the innovation process works when it's done effectively.
 
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Are different industries occupying different spaces on the spectrum of digital transformation? And if so, what are the drivers of that?
 
Justin Honaman is the Vice President of Strategic Sourcing & Procurement: Analytics, Data, Digital Transformation at Georgia-Pacific. 
 
He joined us on this episode of The Possibilities Podcast to talk about how each industry is facing its own unique data analytics challenge based on its maturity in the digital transformation process.
 
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