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  • March 1993
  • Supplement

Burroughs Wellcome and AZT (C)

By: Willis M. Emmons III
Describes key developments relating to Burroughs Wellcome, AZT and other AIDS drugs, and the AIDS issue in general from late 1989 through 1992. Includes excerpts from Wellcome PLC's financial statements and updated statistics on AIDS in the United States. View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Multinational Firms and Management; Financial Statements; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • 15 Sep 2020
  • News

Competing in the Age of AI and Digital Transformation

  • Article

We Have a Rare Opportunity to Create a Stronger, More Equitable Society

By: Shai Davidai, Martin Day, Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, Oliver Hauser, Jon M. Jachimowicz, M. Usman Mirza, Nailya Ordabayeva, L. Taylor Phillips, Barnabas Szaszi and Stephanie Tepper
Income inequality in the United States was at historic levels before the coronavirus hit. Now, as the disease—and the social and economic implications it brings—spread across the country, it is likely to create even deeper fissures between the poor and rich. View Details
Keywords: Socioeconomic Status; Coronavirus; Inequality; Work; Income; Equality and Inequality; Health Pandemics; Gender; Money; Policy; Race; Society
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  • January 2006 (Revised July 2006)
  • Case

Drug Testing in Nigeria (A)

By: Debora L. Spar
In 1996, a meningitis epidemic swept across Nigeria. Thousands of children were struck and, lacking appropriate medicine, were liable to die from the disease. Doctors at Pfizer had an antibiotic that could probably save most of these children's lives. The drug was new,... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Health Pandemics; Health Testing and Trials; Developing Countries and Economies; Pharmaceutical Industry; Nigeria
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  • 05 Oct 2021
  • News

Launch Signals

moment of uncertainty,” added Fitzgerald. The pair spent four years interviewing assault survivors and refining their product before launching in February 2020—and relaunching in June 2020. “Honestly, we were very concerned initially that the View Details
Keywords: entrepreneurship; startup; safety; wearable tech; women; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Web

HBS - Financials | From the CFO

Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information From the CFO In fiscal 2021, Harvard Business School navigated the operational and financial challenges of the global pandemic by staying true to its... View Details
  • Web

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
  • December 2023 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

Manufacturing Moderna's Future

By: Satish Tadikonda and William Marks
In 2019, Moderna faced long odds of survival having failed to develop a successful clinical program out of the vast platform technology they had built around mRNA. Nearly overnight, the company skyrocketed to success with a vaccine for COVID-19, leading to an extremely... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Health Testing and Trials; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Production; Science-Based Business; Biotechnology Industry
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  • Article

Germany's Digital Health Reforms in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons and Opportunities for Other Countries

By: Sara Gerke, Ariel D. Stern and Timo Minssen
Reimbursement is a key challenge for many new digital health solutions, whose importance and value have been highlighted and expanded by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Germany’s new Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale–Versorgung–Gesetz or DVG) entitles all individuals... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Reimbursement; Digital Health Reforms; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Internet and the Web; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Germany
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  • 27 Sep 2021
  • News

Sewn with Love

When Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company, heard stories of the shortages of personal protective equipment for front-line medical workers faced with the coronavirus crisis, the fashion-industry leader began to research the... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Turning Point: In Good Company

program and found a study group of alumni—especially Tom Shaffer (MBA 2005)—who were impressed with my poetry and writing. Their support during the pandemic helped me write Chemical Khichdi: How I Hacked My Mental Health—part-memoir,... View Details
Keywords: bipolar disorder; mental health; wellness; HBS community
  • 24 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

My Journey to Joining the first MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Cohort

learned more about ways to speed up testing in the US. He taught us about potential at-home COVID tests that, if used broadly across the country, could possibly help contain the next wave of COVID this fall. In some ways, the COVID View Details
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • News

Why Top-Down Management Doesn’t Work in the Fight Against Ebola

Keywords: management; ebola; government; leadership; teaming; collaboration; crises; Health, Social Assistance; Government; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 04 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust

drivers, nursing homes, and homeless shelters. “We’re running twelve-to-sixteen hours a day, seven days a week.” Lessons in Leadership For Patel, both the intensity and the complexity of the pandemic response offer important lessons in... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

The Great Priority Reset

have come out of the pandemic with a renewed focus on what they want from life and what they are willing to sacrifice to achieve it.” The opportunity for the airport is to become an immersive first step in that journey, rather than a... View Details
  • January 28, 2021
  • Other Article

Lessons from the U.S.'s Rocky Vaccine Rollout

By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
The rocky rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines is emblematic of many of the problems with the U.S. health care system. The United States is blessed with highly trained, excellent, and compassionate care providers and terrific research and development that has led to novel... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; COVID-19; Vaccines; Operations Improvement; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Performance Improvement; Health; Health Industry; United States
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

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

By: Laura Alfaro, Anusha Chari, Andrew Greenland and Peter K. Schott
We show that unexpected changes in the trajectory of COVID-19 infections predict U.S. stock returns, in real time. Parameter estimates indicate that an unanticipated doubling (halving) of projected infections forecasts next-day decreases (increases) in aggregate U.S.... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Stock Returns; Health Pandemics; Stocks; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 22 Aug 2020
  • News

Bluemercury’s Marla Beck on How Covid-19 Is Changing the Beauty Business

Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Bluemercury cofounder and CEO Marla Beck (MBA 1998) recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal’s Secrets of Wealthy Women podcast about how her company has adapted during the pandemic. One of those changes has been reacting to... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2021
  • News

Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

Clubs News Clubs News Community Partners Lean In to Racial Equity Each year, hundreds of HBS alumni volunteer with their local alumni clubs and associations to offer pro-bono consulting to nonprofits in their communities. This year, the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • January 2021
  • Article

State and Local Government Employment in the COVID-19 Crisis

By: Daniel Green and Erik Loualiche
Local governments are facing large losses in revenues and increased expenditures because of the COVID-19 crisis. We document a causal relationship between fiscal pressures induced by COVID-19 and the layoffs of state and local government workers. States that depend... View Details
Keywords: Local Government; Municipal Finance; Public Finance; Fiscal Capacity; Fiscal Policy; Governance; Local Range; Health Pandemics; Employment; Finance; Policy; Public Sector
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