Managing Through Crisis
While medical experts race to understand more about the public health implications
of the coronavirus pandemic, the business community is looking for answers on how
to protect their companies, adjust their operations, and lead their employees through
an uncertain period.
Working with HBS faculty, our colleagues at Harvard Business Review, and partners
across Harvard University, we offer this timely collection of resources that provide
an overview of information that may be helpful.
What It Takes to Lead Through an Era of Exponential Change
by Aneel Chima and Ron Gutman
- 29 Oct 2020
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- Harvard Business Review
To say that 2020 is a year of disruption and change is to understate the obvious. Our daily lives underwent rapid multi-dimensional change. Nascent trends — virtualization of the workspace, online learning, virtual health, and e-commerce — accelerated exponentially. Changes anticipated to take years occurred in months and, in some cases, weeks and even days. Understandably, leaders have struggled mightily to address these overlapping changes simultaneously, dealing with economic, health, and logistical crises that have unfolded at top speed.
What Health Care Can Teach Other Industries About Preventing Burnout
by Daniel Marchalik
- 26 Oct 2020
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- Harvard Business Review
A three-part framework.
4 Ways to Reconfigure Your Sales Strategy During the Pandemic
by Scott Edinger
- 20 Oct 2020
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- Harvard Business Review
Approaches that will give your team an edge.
Successful Remote Teams Communicate in Bursts
by Christoph Riedl and Anita Williams Woolley
- 28 Oct 2020
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- Harvard Business Review
With the Covid-19 pandemic ongoing, the move to an online workplace has become widespread and may well endure. But, as many organizations are learning, managing the flow of communication among remote teams is tricky. Research findings have led to insights that can help. They center on the concepts of burstiness, information diversity, and physiological synchrony, attention to which can foster creativity, streamline processes, reduce the stress of multi-tasking, and improve team performance.
Give Your Remote Team Unstructured Time for Collaboration
by Barbara Z. Larson
- 27 Oct 2020
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- Harvard Business Review
After more than six months of at least partial remote work for roughly a third of U.S. workers, managers have largely implemented the basic best practices for overseeing their remote workforces. Now, as many companies are continuing to work remotely — and some are shifting to permanent WFH policies — many leaders realize that they need to develop new practices and habits to support their remote employees over the long term. Creating opportunities for employees to connect with one another is at the top of the list for many managers.
4 Ways Men Can Support Their Female Colleagues — Remotely
by David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson
- 27 Oct 2020
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- Harvard Business Review
Everyday gender biases and barriers remain a persistent problem in office culture. But men with a keen awareness of how women experience the workplace and how gender inequities torpedo profitability and mission outcomes can actively deploy strategies to overcome them. In the in-person work environment, these strategies include ensuring that women have a seat (and a nameplate) at the table; confronting other men when they make biased or sexist statements, including to women in team social events; and validating and normalizing women’s experiences in the moment. Men now have to adapt these strategies for the remote workplace.
Mentoring During a Crisis
by David P. Fessell , Vineet Chopra and Sanjay Saint
- 29 Oct 2020
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- Harvard Business Review
If you consider yourself a mentor to someone on the front lines, the first step is to take care of yourself. You can’t offer emotional support if you don’t have your own emotional fortifications in place. Then you can turn to helping your mentees by offering them emotional support and concrete tactics.
Podcast: Going Back to the Office
- 26 Oct 2020
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- Women at Work
If working from home intensified the invisible labor women do and put even more pressure on us professionally and personally, what should we expect from life split between home and office? And without much of the interaction and amenities that being in an office used to offer us, is going in worth the trouble of wearing a mask all day, navigating the new rules, and taking the potential health risk? And what about those of us who can’t go back? Women who’ve returned to their workplaces describe what it’s like to be back.
“Serious” Leaders Need Self-Care, Too
by Palena Neale
- 22 Oct 2020
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- Harvard Business Review
It’s not just a bunch of hippy-dippy nonsense.
Global Crowdsourcing Can Help the U.S. Beat the Pandemic
by Ravi Ramamurti
- 26 Oct 2020
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- Harvard Business Review
Less-wealthy countries offer simple, low-tech solutions that are highly effective at containing infectious diseases.
Why Hiring During Covid Is Different Than in Previous Downturns
by Atta Tarki , Tino Sanandaji and Burt Francis
- 22 Oct 2020
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- Harvard Business Review
Job candidates have more leverage than they once did.
Essential Workers Need Better Masks
by Devabhaktuni Srikrishna , Abraar Karan , David Beier and Ranu S. Dhillon
- 20 Oct 2020
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- Harvard Business Review
Employers should invest in this cost-effective alternative to the N95.
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Virtual Programming
A series of faculty-led programs, originally recorded for and with HBS alumni, on how to manage businesses and teams through the pandemic.
Faculty Interview Series
Chief Marketing & Communications Officer Brian Kenny hosts a weekly Zoom interview with faculty, sharing perspectives and advice on navigating through the Coronavirus crisis.
Harvard on the Front Lines
How those in the broader Harvard community are contributing in the fight against COVID-19.
A round-up of HBS community conversations around COVID-19.
Round-up for October 22-28
- 28 OCT 2020
This week's highlights include: How better employee surveying could help businesses weather COVID-19 and societal uncertainty, from Managing the Future of Work, Professor Raj Choudhury on why "work from anywhere" is here to stay and how to overcome the challenges of creating and maintaining an all-remote workforce, and a poll from Harvard University which shows that a majority of young Americans—regardless of political affiliation—agree that the government should have an increased role in improving mental health services and addressing health care issues.
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