pandemic - Publications - Faculty & Research

May 2024
Supplement

Forest Park Capital (B)

During the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, Betsy Harbison formed the search fund Forest Park Capital with the intention of purchasing a small business. The case conveys the details of Betsy’s final decision at the terminus of her search, between a software company... View Details

Keywords: Search Fund; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Tourism Industry; Web Services Industry; North America; Missouri

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October 2022
Case

Colette Phillips and GetKonnected!: Creating Inclusive Ecosystems

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Amy Chiu and Joyce Kim

Colette Phillips’ marketing firm had just won the City of Boston’s 2nd largest contract in history to a Black-owned company. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Get Konnected!, the networking organization for people of color that she founded 15 years earlier and led to... View Details

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18 Jun 2021
News

Remote Work Revolution

24 Jan 2022
News

COVID-Hit Citizens Don’t Just Blame Govt. Buck Is Passed on to Democracy Too, Survey Finds

12 May 2020
Blog Post

The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

Pivoting in the Midst of a Pandemic By October 2019, the grant application was launched and in February 2020, the City Council began approving grants and distributing funds. “No other city,” Pasricha notes, “has launched an initiative... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Technology; Nonprofit / Government

28 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

Pivoting in the Midst of a Pandemic By October 2019, the grant application was launched and in February 2020, the City Council began approving grants and distributing funds. “No other city,” Pasricha notes, “has launched an initiative... View Details

04 Aug 2021
News

How Companies Can Repair Trust Post-COVID

10 Jan 2022
News

Will the ‘Great Resignation’ Change the Way We Work?

04 Sep 2020
News

Community colleges can be the engine of economic recovery. But first, they must adapt

May 1, 2020
Article

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Danielle Kost

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change.
We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability

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January 2021
Article

COVID-19 Hasn't Been a Tipping Point for Value-Based Care, but It Should Be

By: Thomas W. Feeley

Four out of five health care provider organizations are suffering ongoing losses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the recent NEJM Catalyst Insights Council survey on value-based payment and care. Yet Council members, who are still largely entrenched... View Details

Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Cost

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11 Apr 2023
Cold Call Podcast

A Rose by Any Other Name: Supply Chains and Carbon Emissions in the Flower Industry

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih & Michael W. Toffel; Agriculture & Agribusiness

8 AM – 9:15 AM EDT, 22 Sep 2020
Virtual Programming

Driving Impact: A Dialogue on Capitalism, Climate, and Social Change | Sept 22

Join Professor Rebecca Henderson (MBA 1985) and Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969) as they explore whether and how managers and investors can lead and invest differently in order to drive positive changeeven amidst a pandemic and climate crisisand the timing for government... View Details

07–08 Jun 2022
Reunions

Reunion Celebration 2022, June 7-8

We look forward to seeing you back on the HBS campus to celebrate alongside other alumni whose reunions were either postponed by the pandemic or previously scheduled for this spring! This milestone provides a special opportunity to reconnect with fellow alumni and... View Details

03 Apr 2020
News

Is Trump admin. doing enough to deal with 'unbelievably awful' unemployment?

10–11 Jun 2022
Reunions

Reunion Celebration 2022, June 10-11

We look forward to seeing you back on the HBS campus to celebrate alongside other alumni whose reunions were either postponed by the pandemic or previously scheduled for this spring! This milestone provides a special opportunity to reconnect with fellow alumni and... View Details

March 2025
Case

Fostering Community at Airbnb (A)

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Heather Whiteman and Sarah Mehta

Set in November 2020, this case explores Airbnb’s efforts to foster a culture of belonging, particularly given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the company’s workforce. It details how Airbnb used employee surveys and organizational network analysis (ONA)—a... View Details