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• Case | HBS Case Collection | June 2020 (Revised July 2020)

  TraceTogether

  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 Government Technology Agency (GovTech) and Ministry of Health (MOH) all of eight weeks to develop the world’s first nationwide deployment of a Bluetooth-based contact tracing system, TraceTogether, and deploy it in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. From late January to mid-March 2020, GovTech’s Jason Bay and his team raced to create a technology that would supplement the work of Singapore’s human contact tracers. Days after its launch, Singapore’s foreign minister announced plans to open source the technology. Now, in early April, TraceTogether was a beta for the world. Whether the system would really help in Singapore, and whether other countries should adopt it was still a wide-open question

  Keywords: Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Technology; Mobile Technology; Software; Technology Adoption; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Singapore;

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  Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "TraceTogether." Harvard Business School Case 820-111, June 2020. (Revised July 2020.)  View Details

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• Article | Harvard Business Review (website)

  How to Make Remote Monitoring Tech Part of Everyday Health Care

  Samantha F. Sanders, Ariel Dora Stern and William J. Gordon

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  Sanders, Samantha F., Ariel Dora Stern, and William J. Gordon. "How to Make Remote Monitoring Tech Part of Everyday Health Care." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 2, 2020).  View Details

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• Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | June 2020

  Generation Investment Management

  Vikram S. Gandhi and Sarah Mehta

  This teaching note provides guidance for teaching the case “Generation Investment Management” (820-033), which looks at the challenges facing a sustainable investment firm.

  Keywords: sustainable investing; socially responsible investing; long-term investing; ESG; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Finance; Equity; Governance; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financial Markets; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London;

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  Gandhi, Vikram S., and Sarah Mehta. "Generation Investment Management." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-112, June 2020.  View Details

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