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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

Sharing Advice & Reflections about the Pandemic In June 2020, the Africa Research Center hosted a four-part Africa Webinar Series: COVID-19 Reflections, Challenges, and Next Steps. The series brought together alumni and other leaders... View Details
  • 02 Jul 2024
  • News

The Beauty Guide

of their careers.” It’s a matter of nurturing empathy, notes Freyre, and encouraging others—men and women, leaders and coworkers—to do so as well, especially as the pandemic has blurred the line between personal and professional.... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Kill Groupthink

members should be cross-pollinated across other sectors: digital omnichannel, supply chain, and so forth. “You want a group dynamic that allows for fluid and thought-provoking discussion, where fact-based dissent is welcomed and heard.” Start now. The View Details
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • News

New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off

we start by asking, ‘What will it take to eliminate disease?,’ we will gain a better understanding of why the disease occurs and what bits of biology need to be fixed—which allows us to create better medicines and, over time, get to a cure.” When the program launched... View Details
  • March 5, 2022
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Hospital Capacity Shortages: An SEC-Backed Transparency “PULL” Will Open Beds Faster Than a “PUSH” by HHS

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
In the new normal of ongoing pandemics, hospital bed shortages will continue. Healthcare innovation expert and author of the upcoming book Innovating in Healthcare: Creating Breakthrough Services, Products, and Business Models (Wiley, 2023, 978-1119543008), HBS... View Details
Keywords: Hospital Capacity; Access To Care; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Capacity; Planning
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How to End the Plasma Shortage for Coronavirus Patients

By: Scott Duke Kominers
Those who have recovered from the virus will donate more blood if given the right incentives. View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Convalescent Plasma; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Market Design; Strategy
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  • July 2002 (Revised December 2002)
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Phase Two: The Pharmaceutical Industry Responds to AIDS

By: Debora L. Spar
Describes how major pharmaceutical firms changed their strategy and pricing policies in the years 2000 to 2002 to respond to the growing AIDS epidemic in Africa. View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Health Pandemics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Pharmaceutical Industry; Africa
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  • June 2002 (Revised November 2005)
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Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa

By: Debora L. Spar
In the final years of the 20th century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine. In the developed nations of the West, AIDS was slowly brought under control through a... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Health Pandemics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Pharmaceutical Industry; Africa
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  • 12 May 2021
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Aid from Afar

As HBS student Shyamli Badgaiyan watched the COVID-19 crisis surge in India in recent weeks, the Delhi native felt anxious and helpless. “I found myself thinking of ways to help from afar—an instinct I would later learn many students across the country were also... View Details
Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 27 May 2020
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Prepare to Exit

Jimmy Tran (MBA 2008) Jimmy Tran (MBA 2008) For the last seven years, Jimmy Tran (MBA 2008) appeared to be well on his way along the professional path he’d set out for himself: He had risen to the level of vice president of a Fortune 150 company, the youngest member of... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

The COVID-19 pandemic has battered industries around the world, but one sector's prospects aren’t so bleak: venture capital. Startup backers—and private-equity managers in general—say that half of their portfolio companies haven’t been... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking
  • November 2020
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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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  • 15 Nov 2020
  • News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

on the ground, supporting our faculty in their research and bringing a global perspective to our classrooms. Through this network, HBS faculty can quickly get insights into global developments such as the COVID-19 pandemic and how... View Details
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Managing Global Operations

  Statista Quick statistics and analysis on various topics including data on the pandemic and its impact on countries, industries, as well as topics such as HR technologies. Worth notice: each record includes sources used. That is a... View Details
  • 31 May 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Demystifying the Math of the Coronavirus

Keywords: by Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman; Health
  • 2022
  • Report

The First Four Healthy Building Strategies Every Building Should Pursue to Reduce Risk from COVID-19

By: Joseph G. Allen, Emily Jones, Marissa V. Rainbolt, Linsey C. Marr, David Michaels, Leslie R. Cadet, Shelly L. Miller, Meira Levinson, Lidia Morawska, Richard L. Corsi, Nira R. Pollock, Yuguo Li, Alasdair P.S. Munro, Kelly Grier, Qingyan Chen, John D. Macomber and Xiaodong Cao
Understanding of the most probable transmission routes and identifying the risk environments for disease spread should always be among the first critical steps in the response to future disease threats. This is one of the most vital public health lessons of the... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Buildings and Facilities; Risk and Uncertainty; Health Industry; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry
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  • May 26, 2021
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The Challenge of Rebuilding U.S. Domestic Supply Chains

By: Willy C. Shih, Robert S. Huckman and James Wyner
Massachusetts-based Shawmut scrambled to expand production to meet the soaring demand for N95 masks and hospital gowns during the pandemic. Its experience illustrates a crucial point that policymakers should take to heart: Once a country loses its industrial commons... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain; Health Pandemics; Production; Management; United States
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Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

By: Frank V. Cespedes
The first task of crisis management is a reasonably accurate view of the current situation and how it might evolve. There are many predictions about so-called “new normal” as a result of the semi-enforced social distancing necessitated by the coronavirus. But most are... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Strategic Planning
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  • 3 Jun 2023
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Health Care Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 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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  • 09 Sep 2021
  • News

Should Your Company Implement a Vaccination Mandate?