Health Pandemics - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

relationships with the right people. This crisis presents an opportunity for the CEO to communicate to all employees, including new hires, that the company cares about them and is prioritizing their health and safety during the pandemic.... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

At the start of the pandemic, the uncertainty primarily concerned health issues—the diffusion of the virus and its effective threat. As the virus expanded from China to other countries, the uncertainty extended to the economic domain. For... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

be taken. The briefings were led mainly by health and epidemiology experts who had limited political affiliation. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

understand why it isn’t in the best interests of their organizations to weigh in on all issues facing society, but this is one that can have a direct impact on the performance of their organizations. It is controversial. But to a significant extent, the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Gordon Burtch, Mochen Yang, and Gediminas Adomavicius. Seth Neel : Winner of the 2022 DrivenData Labs U.S. Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Prize Challenge, Phase 1: Concept Development, for “MusCAT (a multi-scale federated system for privacy-preserving View Details

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

January 2022, Tilden stepped into an increasingly popular party. The rise of non-alcoholic (NA) beverages has been one of the big headlines in the industry, where sales of beer grew almost 70 percent from 2016 to 2021, according to Euromonitor, and spirits shot up 113... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

book) is accelerating that trend. “There are substantial public health impacts in wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and the aftermath of flooding,” notes Macomber, who teaches the MBA electives Business Opportunities in Climate Adaptation and... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

February 2021 (Revised April 2024)
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Shopify: The Conquest for Chinese E-Commerce

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Avani Patel, Samantha Lin and Ariel Yang

In mid-2020, Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify, faced a critical decision on how to time potential expansion into the China market. Over the prior 15 years, his Canadian software-as-a-service company had grown from a small e-commerce solutions provider to a full service... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

available + More Info – Less Info After spreading rapidly in the late 20th century, democracy has been on the defensive around the world—and arguably receding—in the 21st century. This represents a profound threat to freedom and stability, as well as to the View Details

09 Apr 2020
News

“Raise the Line”

on six continents, and the company has an ambitious goal of 50 million over the next year and 1 billion by 2025. Gaglani’s experience with Osmosis offers him a unique perspective on the COVID-19 crisis and its impact on the medical field. In this interview, he... View Details

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

submitted, from managing a remote workforce to making decisions in the face of vast uncertainty. Not surprisingly, one significant challenge reported by many CEOs was how to position their company to survive, or even thrive, during the View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

their companies. If ever there was a time for leaders to be authentic, this is it. They need to be humble, open, and realistic about the health care and logistical challenges they are facing while using the best scientific and technical... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

25 Jun 2020
News

Covering All Corners

pandemic has led to a widespread acceleration in innovation, especially in the health care industry. Innovation tends to go hand-in-hand with accessibility and availability of View Details

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

self-confidence. Add in a devastating pandemic that has forced many mothers to scale back professional duties to support children at home, and deeply embedded stereotypes about women as caregivers and men as breadwinners start to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

women involved, the result will be a world with less war. Shivangi Goel Harvard MD/MBA Student, Class of 2022 At the start of the pandemic all medical schools across the country pulled medical students out of the hospitals. I chose to... View Details

20 Apr 2020
News

To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual

meeting for the very latest on the coronavirus pandemic. In his work as the CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Enable Biosciences, an award-winning early and accurate disease diagnosis company in San Francisco, Seftel had been aware of the View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

health justice, and social justice. Ultimately, we need to create a new decision-making paradigm, where our business strategies and choices fully consider the short- and long-term impacts we have on the environment, on communities, and on... View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

picture of the pandemic and its impact on the world. Her goal, she says, is to empower people to make the best decisions to protect themselves and their families. She is the founder of MedStars, a pioneer in the View Details

24 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

significant loss of benefits and spending,” says Kluender, who coauthored the recent working paper Early Withdrawal of Pandemic Unemployment Insurance: Effects on Employment and Earnings with HBS research associate Calvin Jahnke; Kyle... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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