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Back to SearchCovid-19 Dispatch: Irfhan Rawji
Season 2 Episode 28
Canadian entrepreneur Irfhan Rawji has insight into the pandemic’s influence on a wide range of sectors, from US companies working with global tech s…
6 years, 2 months ago
Covid-19 Dispatch: Derek Thompson
In Episode 3 of the Covid-19 Dispatch series, we talk to The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson, who recently wrote about contact tracing. In the fight agains…
6 years, 2 months ago
Covid-19 Dispatch: Ardine Williams
The pandemic has magnified Amazon’s role as household supply line and pushed the company to quickly adjust how it does business. The retail giant has…
6 years, 2 months ago
Covid-19 Dispatch: Justin Wolfers
Season 2 Episode 25
The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown more people out of work than at any time since the Great Depression, and did so with unprecedented speed. In this de…
6 years, 2 months ago
Data-centric business: Inside the artificial intelligence factory
Artificial intelligence seems to have repealed the laws of business physics, allowing “digital native” companies to grow at the stroke of a key and c…
6 years, 2 months ago
Jobcase: Shared opportunities, collective voice
Season 2 Episode 23
Fred Goff wants to tap the Web’s scale and connectivity to rebalance capitalism for the benefit of workers. The former hedge fund manager launched Jo…
6 years, 3 months ago
Richard Florida: the creative class in the age of the superstar city
Season 2 Episode 22
Nearly twenty years ago, Richard Florida famously identified the “creative class,” an amalgamation of knowledge workers and those in the arts, cultur…
6 years, 3 months ago
The Purple Campaign and Vault: Taking on workplace sexual harassment post-#MeToo
Season 2 Episode 21
Workplace sexual harassment can derail careers, depress morale, and decrease productivity. The #MeToo movement focused attention on the issue, but le…
6 years, 4 months ago
Beyond tax breaks and subsidies: Virginia’s Amazon gambit
HBS alum Stephen Moret led Virginia’s winning proposal for Amazon’s 2019 HQ2 expansion. A crucial factor in the Commonwealth’s success was its billio…
6 years, 4 months ago
From opt-in to check-out: How digital platforms are transforming retail
Season 2 Episode 19
Dan O’Connor, retail expert and executive-in-residence with the HBS Managing the Future of Work project, traces the evolution of retail from the corn…
6 years, 5 months ago