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  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

was then, and is now, a matter of using personal data to secure public health. That raises both its promise and its perils, and the leadership task is to navigate the balance.” —PROFESSOR MITCHELL WEISS As COVID-19 was sweeping the globe in January 2020, public View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government
  • 11 Jun 2020
  • In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

Government leaders rushing to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in March gave companies little time to shift to an all-virtual workforce. Ready or not, many businesses had to become more digital. But true digital transformation takes far more... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 12 May 2021
  • News

Aid from Afar

article in The Harvard Gazette. So Badgaiyan teamed up with Priyank Lathwal, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, to mobilize South Asian student organizations across Harvard and other universities to pool resources for health... View Details
Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Keeping the Beat

coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education,... View Details
Keywords: Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information
  • August 2021
  • Teaching Note

Fair Park Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Site (A) and (B)

By: Willy Shih
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 622-003 and 622-004. View Details
Keywords: Operations Improvement; Operations And Processes; Toyota Production System; Operations; Service Operations; Health Pandemics; Service Delivery; Problems and Challenges; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry; United States
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  • 21 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

that organizations could motivate employees simply by showing them how their work helped others—in other words, by harnessing and increasing their altruistic capital. In December 2009, the Society for Family Health (SFH), an affiliate of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Article

Get Ready to Sell

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Bud Hyler
Time-to-market measures the time to have a product ready to ship. But that’s not revenue and cash. Many firms with superb R&D functions lack an understanding of what’s needed to be ready-to-sell. Meanwhile, relevant tools are increasing in scope and decreasing in cost.... View Details
Keywords: Ready-to-sell; Sales; Health Pandemics; Performance Effectiveness
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  • Jun 2020
  • Panel Discussion

COVID-19 in Africa: Reflections, Challenges and Next Steps

By: John D. Macomber, Mattias Fibiger, Hakeem Belo-Osagie, Shikhar Ghosh, Anywhere Sikochi, Laura Alfaro, Euvin Naidoo and Suraj Srinivasan
In June 2020, the Africa Research Center hosted a four-part webinar series titled COVID-19: Reflections, Challenges and Next Steps. The series brought together alumni and friends from across Africa and provided the opportunity to get to know HBS professors who are... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Macroeconomics; Leadership; Strategy; Africa
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  • 23 Jun 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Dignity, Inequality, and the Populist Backlash: Lessons from America and Europe for a Sustainable Globalization

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
  • July 1997
  • Case

Technology Crisis and the Future of Agribusiness: Antibiotic Resistance in Humans and Animals

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Juan Enriquez-Cabot
Keywords: Agribusiness; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Steady as She Goes

consumer behavior brought on by the pandemic to persist. Coles has seen a significant uptick in online ordering—Weckert estimates the company saw five years’ worth of adoption in six months—and people are consuming more at home, which... View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 14 Oct 2020
  • News

Sewn with Love

In the midst of a global pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice, the fashion industry can seem pretty frivolous. Fashion-industry leader Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • April 15, 2020
  • Other Article

Designating Certain Post-Acute Care Facilities As COVID-19 Skilled Care Centers Can Increase Hospital Capacity And Keep Nursing Home Patients Safer

By: Leemore S. Dafny and Steven S. Lee
As the number of COVID-19 cases nationwide continues to grow, many hospitals will need to convert acute care beds into intensive care beds and discharge stable patients to post-acute care settings such as nursing homes. In addition, nursing homes unable to care for... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Nursing Homes; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Safety; Quality
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  • 09 Jun 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Anusha Chari, Andrew Greenland, and Peter K. Schott
  • 26 Oct 2020
  • News

A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions

questions in the Zoom chat box).” The chats for both events were active throughout the 75-minute conversations with alumni using the topic to network over their interest in climate change and social impact work. The Show Must Go On: How an Orchestra Pivoted in a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • November 2020
  • Case

Creating a Virtual Internship at Goldman Sachs

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Iavor I. Bojinov and Emma Salomon
Goldman Sachs runs an annual internship for over 3,000 participants, spread across dozens of the firm's global offices. In 2020, the team brought all its resources to bear to transform the internship program into a fully virtual format in just a few short weeks. The... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Remote Operations; Remote Internship; Internship; Virtual Socialization; Human Capital Management; Human Resources; Management; Health Pandemics; Adaptation
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  • August 2020 (Revised December 2020)
  • Case

General Dennis L. Via: People First, Mission Always

By: Boris Groysberg, Susan Seligson, Katherine Connolly Baden and Robin Abrahams
Dennis L. Via, was a retired four-star U.S. Army general and one of the world’s foremost experts on logistics, crisis management, supply chains, and maintaining a state of readiness at all times. As he reflected back on his career and leadership experience during the... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Crisis Management; Planning; Health Pandemics; United States
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Demystifying the Math of the Coronavirus

By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman
We provide an elementary mathematical description of the spread of the coronavirus. We explain two fundamental relationships: How the rate of growth in new infections is determined by the “effective reproductive number” and how the effective reproductive number is... View Details
Keywords: Coronavirus; Health Pandemics; Mathematical Methods
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  • 16 Nov 2020
  • News

Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results

Moderna released promising news on the progress of their coronavirus vaccine this morning, noting that trials showed it to be 94.5% effective. “In this pandemic, what has been awful from a public health standpoint, an economic standpoint,... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19

COVID-19, there was a critical shortage of ventilators in health care settings across the globe . . . we knew we had a proven product that could help.” — Sanchay Gupta MD/MBA 2022 Cofounder, Umbulizer “Even before COVID-19, there was a... View Details