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- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
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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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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- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
concerns. They include: CEO Elon Musk's Twitter distraction, China's lockdown of millions in Guangzhou, and a recall of 300,000+ Teslas due to a taillight glitch. The auto companies themselves had multiple EV announcements in late...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
big part of it is actually a tangible barrier rather than a behavioral one. If you're in a lockdown or if you’re nervous about going out and being around other people, you’re less likely to go out and shop, to consume, and this directly...
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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
presented by the pandemic on three continents: West Africa The region’s already fragile food ecosystems are buckling under the pandemic strain, with lockdowns keeping farm workers from their fields, supply chains disrupted, price hikes,...
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- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, 59 percent of women respondents considered COVID-19 a very serious health problem, compared to 49 percent of men. When the research team surveyed people again a month later, in mid-April, the numbers...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes
entrepreneurship has taught me to lean into surprises. Between border shutdowns, lockdowns right before launch, and other unexpected turns, I’ve learned to adapt, iterate, and persevere amid uncertainty. Though solving health care...
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- 11 Aug 2020
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Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
the gig economy. Things would soon change with the onset of the COVID-19 crisis in early March. Shrey posing in front of the HBS sign on campus “It was a surreal experience to be sitting in one of the final in-person classes of the semester and receiving notifications...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
it’s clear who does what and why. And after that, stay in your lane. Due to COVID-19 lockdowns there were no domestic flights, and you had to have special permits to travel by road. We had to think through the logistics of how to operate...
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
champion. His critically-acclaimed multimedia production LYRICS FROM LOCKDOWN (directed by Gina Belafonte) is a one-man show weaving together hip hop theater, spoken word poetry, blues, comedy, calypso and classical music to tell his...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
Business Administration, Emeritus. He's the author of Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations about Your Company’s Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy. Arthur C. Brooks: Weigh the risks of loneliness I’m an optimist, so one of the first things I thought as...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
likelihood of success was 15 percent at best. But by December 2020, the first NHS patient received a vaccine. Now, nearly every adult in Britain has had the jab, lockdowns have ended, and we can finally live with COVID. What lies behind...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
sciences industry, because of their focus on patients, in many ways is already there. And I think that the effects of the lockdowns during Covid, some of them are going to be permanent, where a lot of people who didn’t think they could...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Howard (MBA 1971) Boiling Point Editions This story depicts a youth’s journey set in the turbulent Middle East and spiked with tragedy, wrong turns, unforced errors, luck, espionage, and family love. Life can either grind you down or polish you—it depends on what...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
were conducted during the lockdown last year in Tamil Nadu and real-time implementation of the drones delivering COVID-19 vaccines looks promising.” JANUARY 11 Ten years ago, Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) founded Hope and Comfort, a nonprofit...
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