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January 20, 2022
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3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

Many workers feel battered and distrustful after almost two years of COVID-19 instability. But it's not too late for managers—even those who made damaging missteps—to repair these relationships, say Sandra Sucher and Shalene Gupta. View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Trust; Employee Relationship Management

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13 Mar 2023
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How Anti-Asian Racism Has Manifested at Work in the Pandemic

25 Sep 2020
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Disruption of Work Relationships Adds to Mental-Health Concerns During Pandemic

May 6, 2020
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We Shouldn't Wait for a Breakthrough in the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Gary P. Pisano

The ultimate solutions to the COVID-19 crisis may be big breakthroughs in building massive test and trace capacity and developing vaccines and drug remedies. But in the meantime, we should not ignore the potential cumulative impact of the many small things we already... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Strategy; Leadership

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01 May 2020
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A Pandemic Won’t Kill the Open Office, but Slack Could

07 May 2020
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Perspectives in Health: How Walmart Health is Addressing the Pandemic

26 Jun 2020
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Can a Co-Working Space Go Online? It Can in a Pandemic

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Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Operational Lessons for Managing the Pandemic

18 Nov 2021
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James Gross: Building Emotion Regulation Skills During the Pandemic and Beyond

24 Mar 2021
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Inflation Is Harder to Measure After a Year of Pandemic Spending

22 Oct 2020
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What I wish I’d known at the start of the pandemic

04 Aug 2020
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The pandemic workday is 48 minutes longer and has more meetings

23 Apr 2020
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Two Errors Our Minds Make When Trying to Grasp the Pandemic

27 Apr 2020
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The pandemic is liberating firms to experiment with radical new ideas

21 Aug 1991
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CEOs’ plans to reset capitalism bump into reality of pandemic

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Dynamic Silos: Modularity in Intra-organizational Communication Networks during the Covid-19 Pandemic

By: Jonathan Larson, Tiona Zuzul, Emily Cox Pahnke, Neha Parikh Shah, Patrick Bourke, Nicholas Caurvina, Fereshteh Amini, Youngser Park, Joshua Vogelstein, Jeffrey Weston, Christopher White and Carey E. Priebe

Workplace communications around the world were drastically altered by Covid-19, work-from-home orders, and the rise of remote work. We analyze aggregated, anonymized metadata from over 360 billion emails within over 4000 organizations worldwide to examine changes in... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Remote Work; Organizational Silos; Health Pandemics; Organizations; Communication; Networks

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June 2023
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Tractor Supply Co

By: David L. Ager and Michael A. Roberto

In February 2023, Hal Lawton, CEO of Tractor Supply Co, the largest farm and ranch retailer in the United States reflected on the company’s 70% growth between 2019 and 2022. Economists had begun to predict an economic downturn and experts were predicting softening... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Demand and Consumers; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Retail Industry

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March 2021 (Revised January 2023)
Background Note

The Pandemic's Impact on the U.S. Food System

By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred

This note is intended not as a comprehensive account but as a starting point for discussion about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. food system. Written in late 2020, the note describes, in part through the voices of industry leaders, how the pandemic... View Details