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- June 2020 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
TraceTogether
By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
By April 7, 2020, over 1.4 million people worldwide had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments raced to curb the spread of COVID-19 by scaling up testing, quarantining those infected, and tracing their possible contacts. It had taken Singapore’s... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Contact Tracing; Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Singapore
Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "TraceTogether." Harvard Business School Case 820-111, June 2020. (Revised January 2024.)
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
“I’ve done well so far, but there might be something else out there where I can make a bigger impact or that’s more meaningful.” Those “something elses” don’t always pay the same amount, and that’s where our Summer Fellowship Program comes in, especially this past year... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
financial system The state of trade Inequality and populism Migration Environmental degradation Failure of the rule of law The state of public health and general education The rise of state capitalism Radical movements, terrorism, and war View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library
Advancing Racial Equity plan includes goal of developing more cases with Black and other under-represented minority protagonists. 2020 Bringing the Case Method Online During COVID-19 Pandemic HBS develops a hybrid classroom model to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
global health bottlenecks through CHAI (now known as the Clinton Health Access Initiative since its mission has expanded to include pandemics like tuberculosis and malaria). As director of operations research working out of CHAI’s Boston... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
viewpoint bullying and cancel culture incidents. Forgive. Give second chances. This is hard work—and great training in leadership. Leaders regularly reach back to the pandemic when asked about a time when they believe they managed trust... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- May 2025 (Revised June 2025)
- Supplement
Michael Ku and Global Clinical Supply at Pfizer Inc.: Bringing Hope to Patients (D)
By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
This fourth installment in the Pfizer Global Clinical Supply (GCS) transformation case series highlights how over a decade of cultural and digital evolution positioned GCS to meet unprecedented global challenges. In 2011, Michael Ku became the Vice President of GCS and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Technological Innovation; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Transformation; Health Pandemics; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Digital Transformation; Leading Change; Product Launch; Supply Chain; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Alignment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry; United States; Asia; Europe; Latin America
Hill, Linda A., and Lydia Begag. "Michael Ku and Global Clinical Supply at Pfizer Inc.: Bringing Hope to Patients (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 425-079, May 2025. (Revised June 2025.)
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience
of the pandemic is having to commit to social events in advance due to limited availability. “You can’t just play things by ear. But it is the only way we are able to do anything because of the baby. We have to plan to attend events in... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
rise and grab it by the horns.” Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Earlier this year, as the coronavirus pandemic swept across the globe, the MBA Class of 2020 faced the daunting prospect of graduating into an economy battered by... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
to read a book about me. That was kind of characteristic of him, is some of it was maybe a false modesty, but a lot of it was very real. So, fast forward to the summer of 2020, the pandemic hits, we’re all working from home. He was... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
2023, up 11 percent from the prior year, reflecting a bump as both first- and second-year students who had chosen to defer their enrollment during the pandemic returned to campus to resume their education. HBS welcomed 2,024 MBA students... View Details
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
grassroots organization, Fuel the People, that provided over 50,000 meals to communities in Washington, DC, and New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic through paid partnerships with minority-owned restaurants. "At HBS and beyond, I... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
future performance are challenging tasks in person, and all the more problematic when done remotely. In the business world, the current pandemic has caused many organizations to implement a hiring freeze. But when it comes to important... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
company’s business going forward. How was ArcelorMittal to face the mounting crisis? What response did it owe its employees? Its shareholders? Its stakeholders? Given the low state capacity in Liberia, ArcelorMittal helped organize a private sector response to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
in the first quarter of 2019 were women. The disparate impacts of the pandemic and the protests following the killing of George Floyd have focused national attention on the need for increased racial diversity. 2020 has presented economic... View Details
- June 2024
- Case
SnapTravel: Betting on 'Super.com'
By: Reza Satchu and Tom Quinn
This case explores SnapTravel, a travel startup offering discounted hotel rooms, and its founders’ desire to pivot to a “super app” that saved customers money across many different purchase types. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hussein Fazal and Henry Shi saw SnapTravel... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Business Startups; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Volatility; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decisions; Income; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Scope; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Health Pandemics; Surveys; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Risk Management; Consumer Behavior; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Adaptation; Diversification; Expansion; System Shocks; Accommodations Industry; Technology Industry; Canada; United States; Las Vegas
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Janesh Janardhanan (GMP 30) Wiley In The Great Lockdown: Lessons Learned During the Pandemic from Organizations Around the Globe, expert strategists Shivaji Das, Aroop Zutshi, and Janesh Janardhanan deliver an insightful exploration of... View Details