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  • 06 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams

May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Illustration created by HBSWK using an image... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 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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    Regina E. Herzlinger

    Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical... View Details

    Keywords: health care; insurance industry; medical devices; retailing; digital health
    • September 2024 (Revised December 2024)
    • Case

    Ming Min Hui at Boston Ballet

    By: Edward H. Chang, David Allen and Annelena Lobb
    This case asks how Ming Min Hui, the newly appointed executive director of Boston Ballet, should ensure that the company stays true to its art form yet relevant to its times. Hui stood out among ballet leaders as a young, Asian American woman with a Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: Arts; Change; Diversity; Gender; Race; Theater Entertainment; Leadership; Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Music Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
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    • January 31, 2022
    • Article

    Who Pays Tolls at Work and Who Cruises on an Open Highway?

    By: Siri Chilazi, D. Kolb, Kathleen L. McGinn and Jessica L. Porter
    As organizations continue to navigate a changed world amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and the reverberations of the Black Lives Matter movement, many of the issues that affect underrepresented groups in organizations, including women of all different races and... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Opportunities; Equality and Inequality; Social Issues
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    • November 2020
    • Supplement

    Valuing Celgene's CVR

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
    When Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) acquired Celgene Corporation in November 2019, Celgene shareholders received cash, BMS stock, and a contingent value right (CVRs) that would pay $9 if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved three of Celgene’s late stage... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Value; Valuation; Judgments; Decision Making; Cash Flow; Financial Instruments; Cognition and Thinking; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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    • May 11, 2020
    • Article

    Steer Your Family Businesses Through an Unplanned Transition

    By: Josh Baron and Nick Di Loreto
    In a perfect world, family businesses will transition leadership from one generation to the next along a predictable and well-planned process — whether that’s determined within the business, the ownership group, or the family itself — passing the baton after years of... View Details
    Keywords: Transition; Planning; Family Business; Management Succession
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    • 2023
    • Article

    Digital Health Reimbursement Strategies of 8 European Countries and Israel: Scoping Review and Policy Mapping

    By: Robin van Kessel, Divya Srivastava, Ilias Kyriopoulos, Giovanni Monti, David Novillo-Ortiz, Ran Milman, Wojciech Wilhelm Zhang-Czabanowski, Greta Nasi, Ariel Dora Stern, George Wharton and Elias Mossialos
    Background: The adoption of digital health care within health systems is determined by various factors, including pricing and reimbursement. The reimbursement landscape for digital health in Europe remains underresearched. Although various emergency reimbursement... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Adoption; Health Care and Treatment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Price; Health Industry; Europe; Israel
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    • 2024
    • Chapter

    The Private Economy Under Party-State Capitalism

    By: Margaret M. Pearson, Meg Rithmire and Kellee S. Tsai
    This chapter addresses the evolution of China’s approach to the private sector from the early reform era until the beginning of Xi Jinping’s third term. It argues that China has evolved from a familiar form of state capitalism, in which economic growth is the primary... View Details
    Keywords: Government Administration; International Relations; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economic Systems; China
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    • 23 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

    furtively wedged between meetings and deadlines. Shifts to remote work and flexible hours during early pandemic lockdowns, for example, made care obligations less secretive. But it might not persist: About 50 percent of employers plan to... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • Article

    Manage the Suppliers That Could Harm Your Brand: Know When to Avoid, Engage, or Drop Them

    By: Jodi L Short and Michael W. Toffel
    The pandemic has placed a new spotlight on working conditions in factories that supply global companies. To avert problems, firms often impose codes of conduct on their suppliers and perform audits to assess compliance. Do these measures help identify unethical... View Details
    Keywords: Auditing; Agency Cost; Quality And Safety; Quality Management System; Quality Management; Unions; Environmental Management; Globalization; Goods and Commodities; Governance; Labor; Labor Unions; Wages; Working Conditions; Operations; Supply Chain; Safety; Quality; China; Bangladesh; Asia; Pakistan
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    • November 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Valuing Celgene's CVR

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 221-031. When Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) acquired Celgene Corporation in November 2019, Celgene shareholders received cash, BMS stock, and a contingent value right (CVRs) that would pay $9 if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Value; Judgments; Decision Making; Cash Flow; Financial Instruments; Cognition and Thinking; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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    • 01 Mar 2021
    • News

    Manage the Suppliers That Could Harm Your Brand

    • March 2021
    • Case

    Astralis Group: Determining a Brand Strategy

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emilie Billaud
    After launching a Danish esports company in July 2019, and going public in December 2019 with multiple brands associated with different games, the Astralis leadership team was contemplating a shift to a single, corporate brand. While the original arguments for... View Details
    Keywords: Brand Strategy; Esports; Video Games; Corporate Scope; Positioning; Ecosystem; Brands and Branding; Strategy; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Sports; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Diversification; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Denmark; Europe
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    • 20 May 2020
    • News

    How Will COVID-19 Change Demand for Office Space?

      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

      • 12 Sep 2023
      • Book

      Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You

      they’re leading a whole bunch of other people. So emotional management is even more important.” Brooks says the country, and maybe the world, is in a happiness slump. This epidemic predates the COVID-19 pandemic (though lockdowns and... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
      • Web

      The Virtual Experience

      The pandemic has forced individuals and organizations to adapt quickly to new ways of doing business, new ways of leading, and new ways of learning. At Harvard Business School we’ve leveraged technology to enhance virtual leadership... View Details

        Airbnb During the Pandemic—Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test

        As the covid pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the... View Details
        • 2022
        • Working Paper

        THEMIS: A Framework for Cost-Benefit Analysis of COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions

        By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Michael Lingzhi Li and Saksham Soni
        Since December 2019, the world has been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 150 million confirmed cases and 3 million confirmed deaths worldwide. To combat the spread of COVID-19, governments have issued unprecedented non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs),... View Details
        Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Policy; Framework; Cost vs Benefits; Outcome or Result; United States; Germany; Brazil; Singapore; Spain
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