Pandemics - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 2017
Case

Hacking Heroin

"Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated," she said.... View Details

Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Hackathon; Heroin; Opioids; Crowdsourcing; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Pandemics; Public Administration Industry; Health Industry; Ohio; Cincinnati

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07 Sep 2021
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Funding His Purpose

through its lending platform and fund management, and the consulting firm has influenced the allocation of more than $6 billion in assets. Letelier was expecting to grow “the usual 30 percent” in 2020 when the pandemic hit. With the... View Details

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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

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

through a few months, when normalcy would resume. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)—government-funded forgivable loans designed to help businesses pay their employees—would help them weather the storm. Six months later, there’s still no end in sight to the View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in the midst of a View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2020
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Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

Illustration by Mengxin Li After years of speculation, 2020 was meant to be a big year for the implementation of 5G, the fifth generation of standards for broadband cellular networks. And somewhere between a pandemic and a mountain of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

25 Aug 2022
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Action Plan: Fired Up

recognize the power of food and entertaining as a cultural trend.” Listen and learn. “The pandemic paused our live outreach events and created uncertainty about how we’d stay connected and relevant to consumers. Then a customer posted a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; company culture; barbecue; entertaining; food; marketing; brand

01 Jun 2020
News

Staying the Course

helps school districts—many of which cancelled assessment testing—predict year-end math proficiency and better plan for post-pandemic instruction. Woolley-Wilson believes that ed tech products that prove to be useful during the pandemic... View Details

Keywords: April White; online education

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

the pandemic has taught us important lessons. Financially and operationally, the pandemic strengthened HBS as an institution. We developed and integrated new technology into the classroom, expanded our... View Details

24 Mar 2021
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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

01 Sep 2007
News

Ideas against AIDS

CLAWSON AND VIRAVAIDYA: Early allies in the fight against AIDS. Photo courtesy Curtis Clawson In Thailand, anti-AIDS activist Mechai Viravaidya is known for getting not only Santas and tollbooth operators to hand out condoms, but traffic police as well, in a campaign... View Details

Keywords: AIDS & HIV; activism; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

March 2014
Teaching Note

Uptake of Rapid Diagnostic Tests: A Development Challenge

By: Nava Ashraf, Andrew Boozary and Kristin Johnson

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health Pandemics; Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias; Zambia

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23 Jul 2021
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Trends in Consumer Products

other businesses like hotels, which were clearly severely impacted. Overall, General Mills saw simultaneous highs and lows during the pandemic. For the job seeker, it is important to research how companies were affected by the Covid View Details

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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

from investors in Japan, and in November 2019, with Nakamura and some friends, he presided over a mostly successful “Yasu & Masa’s Ramen” pop-up event in Cambridge. “Everyone ate well, and no one got food poisoning,” he laughs, “but it was definitely a learning... View Details

16 Nov 2021
Blog Post

How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation

experience finding your first post-HBS job? Entering the job market in the summer of 2020 at the height of the pandemic was quite challenging. Nevertheless, I am very grateful for the resources HBS provided me both inside and outside the... View Details

15 Sep 2020
Blog Post

One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech

perfectly for our August course. Initially, we planned to offer Lab Essentials as a hands-on lab course to immerse everyone back into the science, but with the coronavirus pandemic hitting globally, we realized that we had a unique... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future

making sure everyone gets the best experience possible. Prior to the pandemic we divided the Board into smaller sections, each led by a member of the Executive Committee. I think that has helped forge closer relationships despite the... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush; alumni events; lifelong learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

communicate with their families, who can’t come into the hospital. That’s a new form of telemedicine that we really hadn’t thought of until this pandemic was upon us. The Health Care Initiative at HBS Robert Huckman and Peter Slavin have... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

02 Aug 2021
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ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in the midst of a pandemic that has hit communities of color hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative... View Details

10 Nov 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

Harvard Business Review 98, no. 5 (September–October 2020): 98–105. Weaknesses in supply chain strategy exposed As anyone who went grocery shopping in the early days of the pandemic can tell you, empty shelves revealed how COVID-19 did a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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