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- 07 Dec 2022
- News
Dubai-Based Proptech Builds Up
Aahan Bhojani (Linkedin) Aahan Bhojani (Linkedin) In early 2020, Aahan Bhojani (MBA 2019) was working for a travel fintech startup in Boston when the coronavirus pandemic resulted in lockdowns around the world. But Bhojani wasn't in Boston when governments began...
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- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
slightly in October. But the shift to online shopping happened even as lockdown measures dampened sales (both the quantity of products sold and dollars spent) in the early weeks of lockdowns. In the UK, sales remained lower than in 2019...
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- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
shifts were canceled due to closures. When the lockdown continued, the company then furloughed 51,000 store employees—while still retaining 82 percent of its full-time store and field employees on payroll. To support workers through the...
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road...
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Dan Morrell
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
interactive database tracking 16 categories of policies announced in each country, from rate cuts and lending to quantitative easing, the large-scale asset purchases and balance sheet expansion by central banks. The database also includes whether a country implemented...
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by Rachel Layne
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
asked, “Is this a good time to begin thinking about prudential limits so that the brick-and-mortar stores will continue to be around when the next lockdown happens?” Perhaps the most basic question was one raised by NickC when he said,...
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- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
compare work habits before and after the COVID-19 pandemic began. Starting in March 2020, when meal-delivery services became a fixture of lockdown life, drivers worked an extra 2.4 hours per shift, and earned an additional $39.50 per...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
with friends on Roblox, often late into the night. Parents communicating with them by text while “workzooming.” The COVID-19 lockdown and “year of remote learning” accelerated and amplified our dramatic shift to living online. What is...
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- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
data-id=_/CWwxVO0Me28Q0etkq2Sr][/div] The most vulnerable businesses won’t last that long. They’ll need interest-free loans and other cash buffers to pay their workers and keep their storefronts while they wait out citywide lockdowns and...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
company immediately reacted to this news by creating a “COVID committee” to manage the emergency even before the national lockdown was imposed. It shifted to remote working wherever possible, including employees in production and quality...
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- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
interpret that to mean that it’s safe.” Luca and Glaeser teamed with University of Maryland Professor Ginger Zhe Jin and Benjamin T. Leyden, an assistant professor at Cornell University. They detailed their findings in Learning from Deregulation: The Asymmetric Impact...
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- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
In a world devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) has been able to effectively combat the disease without ever imposing a full lockdown of its economy. How did the country accomplish its success, and what...
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- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
Cities and states are feeling the financial pain of this recession more quickly than in past downturns after pandemic-induced lockdowns swiftly decimated sales tax revenue that helps fund their operations. In fact, new research finds that...
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by Kristen Senz
- 23 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Trends in Consumer Products
needed to simplify their workload. When the lockdown first hit, we saw consumers turn to “old trusted brands” like Busch and Bud Light. When people began to gather with family or small groups again, consumers had an appetite to bring...
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- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
some,” one CEO explained. Another CEO was able to avoid layoffs and broad salary reductions by “[asking] my top 10 percent to take a 30 percent pay cut today, which I converted into [employee stock] and they would receive twice as much as they forgo when things...
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How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America
and Brazil, we had very long lockdowns and had to stay at home for eight months. At some point, everyone on the team either got pulled away, went through something difficult, or lost someone. People really helped each other. We grew much...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just...
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Amy Crawford
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
As millions of passengers return to the skies for long-delayed plans, they’ll be returning to an airport that’s likely a little different. The lockdowns of 2020 hit aviation harder than almost any other industry. Airports, as a subsector,...
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Latin America - Global Activities 2020
Those people were eligible to receive emergency loans. Ben and I realized that there was a way for us to study these loans and look at the question: If you are in the middle of a crisis and you are a lending institution, what do you do? Is it best to freeze everything,...
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- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
Montblanc. The conversation looked at the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and how fashion and lifestyle retail companies can adapt creatively, technologically, and organizationally. Attendees also participated in smaller breakout sessions to...
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Margie Kelley