New Urgencies and an Old Question

As I draft this note, halfway through 2020, I count three crises so far—a global pandemic, a major economic shock, and, in the United States, a painful national reckoning over systemic racism. These are problems that every institution, including ours, is engaging with. HBR has the ability, and the responsibility, to publish new thinking on these topics—and that’s what we’ve been doing, both in this magazine and online.