On Wednesday evening, May 20th, Dr. Bharat Anand, the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit and the faculty chair of the HBX initiative at Harvard University, visited MTA to present a lecture to select MTA and Central students, faculty and leadership, as well as some college students and MTA alumni. This special event, which was sponsored by YUHS Board Chair Mrs. Miriam Goldberg and husband and board member Mr. Alan Goldberg ('72), has become an annual tradition. This marks the third year of the special dinner and lecture from a world renowned business mind. After an introduction from Alex Goldberg ('09), Dr. Anand immediately captured the audience's attention when he explained that when the radio was introduced in the 1920's, people were certain that it would transform education, as courses would become available over the airwaves. But as we now know, this did not happen. Similar advances in technology throughout the 20th century similarly did not have major impacts on the structural format of education. Thus, when Dr. Anand was tasked by the Harvard administration to create an online platform for global learning, he and his team spent months evaluating how to design a program that would be truly unique and be worthy of a paid education platform (as opposed to the many free competitors). Ultimately, the platform that was created leverages the power of social learning and, thus far, it has been exceptionally successful with about a 85% completion rate and hundreds of participants. Ultimately, what Dr. Ananda taught was that innovation - in all fields - takes a great amount of work and research, and constant evaluation along the way in order to understand what the consumers truly want and need. Special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg for coordinating the incredible evening.