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  • Hafo shang ye ping lun [Harvard Business Review, Chinese edition]

Yiqing xia zhongguo qiye de duice xuanze [Lessons from Chinese Companies' Response to COVID-19]

By: Das Narayandas, Vinay Hebar and Liangliang Li
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Abstract

China was weeks ahead of the rest of the world in dealing with the pandemic and its fallout. To understand what's next, the authors conducted a series of 20 in-depth, in-person interviews, as well as a large-scale survey of more than 350 senior executives to ascertain how the Chinese corporate world has adapted, innovated, and survived—and even thrived—in these extremely uncertain and trying times. They identified 11 lessons for leaders in the rest of the world.

Keywords

Management; Innovation and Management; Health Pandemics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Asia; China

Citation

Narayandas, Das, Vinay Hebar, and Liangliang Li. "Yiqing xia zhongguo qiye de duice xuanze [Lessons from Chinese Companies' Response to COVID-19]." Hafo shang ye ping lun [Harvard Business Review, Chinese edition] (July 2020): 118–125. (Also appeared online, in English, at Harvard Business Review, June 5, 2020.)
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