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  • 22 Aug 2020
  • News

Bluemercury’s Marla Beck on How Covid-19 Is Changing the Beauty Business

Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Bluemercury cofounder and CEO Marla Beck (MBA 1998) recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal’s Secrets of Wealthy Women podcast about how her company has adapted during the pandemic. One of those changes has been reacting to... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Political Economy of a 'Miracle Cure': The Case of Nebulized Ibuprofen and Its Diffusion in Argentina

By: Sebastian Calónico, Rafael Di Tella and Juan Cruz Lopez Del Valle
We document the diffusion of nebulized ibuprofen in Argentina as a treatment for COVID-19. As the pandemic spread, this clinically unsupported drug reached thousands of patients, even some seriously ill, despite warnings by the regulator and medical societies. Detailed... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Adoption; Behavior; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Learning
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  • 2022
  • Book

Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well

By: Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber
For too long we’ve designed buildings that haven’t focused on the people inside—their health, their ability to work effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too clear, Healthy... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Buildings and Facilities; Health; Health Pandemics; Safety
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  • July 2020
  • Case

Michael Solomonov: Jerusalem in a Bowl

By: Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht and Katherine Connolly Baden
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook had begun to wonder whether it might be time to rethink their opportunistic approach to the expansion of their small restaurant empire in Philadelphia, CooknSolo. The pandemic, however, caused an... View Details
Keywords: Restaurant Industry; Entrepreneur; COVID-19; Crisis; Crisis Response Plans; Entrepreneurship; Food; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Creativity; Strategy; Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Situation or Environment; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 24 Mar 2020
  • News

Crisis Management for Leaders: COVID-19 as a Novel Event and Risk Management Framework

  • 24 Apr 2020
  • Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

future performance are challenging tasks in person, and all the more problematic when done remotely. In the business world, the current pandemic has caused many organizations to implement a hiring freeze. But when it comes to important... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

    The Biggest Mistakes Bosses Will Make With Workers Returning After Covid-19 (by Tsedal Neeley)

    There’s little doubt that how we work changed dramatically during the sudden, unexpected and extensive experiment in remote work brought on by the pandemic. Many employees, working at home, became more efficient, productive and happier; others struggled and... View Details

    • Article

    Policies to Influence Perceptions about COVID-19 Risk: The Case of Maps

    By: Claudia Engel, Jonathan Rodden and Marco Tabellini
    Choropleth disease maps have become an important tool for informing the public about the risks posed by COVID-19. In a survey conducted in the U.S. state of Georgia in June 2020, we randomly assigned respondents to view either of two maps. The first one reported... View Details
    Keywords: Disease Surveillance; Health Pandemics; Risk and Uncertainty; Perception; Policy
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    • April 24, 2023
    • Article

    In the COVID Era, Why Corporate Benefits Demand CEO/CFO Leadership

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger
    The expectation that employers provide their employees’ health benefits has been around since World War II. Unfortunately, although today’s employees expect employers to treat them as individuals, ease their experiences, prioritize their wellbeing, and control cost,... View Details
    Keywords: COVID; COVID-19 Pandemic; CEO; Leadership; Health Insurance; Benefits; CFO; Compensation and Benefits
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    • July 2020
    • Teaching Note

    COVID-19: The Global Shutdown

    By: Laura Alfaro and Sarah Jeong
    In the first months of 2020, a pandemic overwhelmed the world. COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus, spread from China and created a severe public health emergency across countries. While an immediate fear of the disease’s impact on human life permeaacted... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Trade; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics; Financial Crisis; Economy; Policy; Governance; Economic Systems; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Economic Sectors
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    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Stock Market Stimulus

    By: Robin Greenwood, Toomas Laarits and Jeffrey Wurgler
    We study the stock market effects of the arrival of the three rounds of “stimulus checks” to U.S. taxpayers and the single round of direct payments to Hong Kong citizens. The first two rounds of U.S. checks appear to have increased retail buying and share prices of... View Details
    Keywords: Stock Market; COVID-19 Pandemic; Fiscal Stimulus; Stimulus Payments; Impact; Stocks; System Shocks; Price; Spending; United States; Hong Kong; China
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    CRM and AI in Time of Crisis

    By: Michelle Y. Lu and Navid Mojir
    A crisis can affect the incentives of various players within a firm’s multi-layered sales and marketing organization (e.g., headquarters and branches of a bank). Such shifts can result in sales decisions against the firm’s best interests. Motivated by the backlash to... View Details
    Keywords: CRM; Artificial Intelligence; AI; B2B Marketing; Decision Authority; Crisis Marketing; Intra-organizational Conflict; COVID-19 Pandemic; Customer Relationship Management; Technological Innovation; Decision Making; Strategy; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; AI and Machine Learning
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    • Web

    Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

    Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical devices/diagnostics Precision Medicine Public Health 17 Aug 2022 Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    COVID-19 and the Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future Research and Action

    Keywords: by Ashley Whillans and 28 coauthors; Health; Retail
    • 08 May 2020
    • In Practice

    Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

    Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School shared advice for nonprofits facing dire financial challenges. How can donors support social impact organizations through a recession? Michael Chu: Support proven organizations with broad impact   First, the View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • October 2024
    • Article

    Greater Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake among enrollees Offered Health and Social Needs Case Management: Results from a Randomized Trial

    By: Margae Knox, Elizabeth A. Hernandez, Daniel M. Brown, Jennifer Ahern, Mark D. Fleming, Crystal Guo and Amanda L. Brewster
    The CommunityConnect case management program for Medicaid beneficiaries is run by Contra Costa Health, a county safety net health system in California. Case management infrastructure modestly improved Covid-19 vaccine uptake in a population of Medicaid beneficiaries... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Medical Specialties; Programs; Human Needs; Welfare; Health Industry; California
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    • April 5, 2023
    • Article

    We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Long COVID

    By: Esther K. Choo and Scott Duke Kominers
    With millions of people affected and at least $1 trillion of economic value at stake, long COVID is our next national health emergency. View Details
    Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; COVID-19 Pandemic; Scientific Research; Policy; Health Policy; Innovation; Science; Public Finance; Public Health; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital
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    • 15 Jul 2020
    • News

    A COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

    Keywords: COVID-19
    • September 2020
    • Case

    West Side United: Hospitals Tackle the Racial Health and Wealth Gap

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Paul Stramaglia
    During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. David Ansell, Darlene Hightower, and Ayesho Jaco, leaders of West Side United (WSU), a coalition of Chicago hospitals, community residents, banks, and small businesses conceived in 2016, reviewed progress toward WSU’s goal of ending... View Details
    Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; Hospital; Coalition; Health Pandemics; Race; Health; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Change; Leadership; Chicago
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    • 18 Apr 2024
    • Lecture

    Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 Can Help: And How to Make Them Happen

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger
    The crush of patients created by COVID enabled the creation of sites for care outside the traditional hospital, such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy mirrored these changes by... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Insurance Industry
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