The resilience of cooperative enterprises
Even though they are no magical passe-partout, cooperatives can be a source of inspiration for constructing a post-corona society that puts the economy at the service of humankind.
Can contact tracing apps stop the pandemic?
How can the population be encouraged to use contact tracing apps?
From Vaccine Racing to Living in a Fish Bowl: Are We Speeding or Learning?
Speed comes with risk. This leads us to propose that societal and industry leaders, together with citizens, have not sufficiently considered the alternative: Collective learning, i.e. sharing knowledge that can be leveraged and combined with that of others.
Business Schools Can Take the Driver’s Seat in the Age of COVID-19
Can a Black Swan event, such as COVID-19, lead into a possible rapid deinstitutionalization of business schools? And, if so, how can we respond to ensure long-term sustainability?
Accelerating “Openness” for an Informed Society: A Positive New Normal?
How can business leaders productively process the sheer volume and pace of information sharing, let alone parse out good science from bad? More significant still, how will they proactively support society in making sense of critical, possibly life-saving, information?
Tackling COVID-19 as a Grand Challenge
How does this crisis relate to other grand challenges and how should we address the coronavirus that has triggered it?
How Businesses Can Help Society Navigate COVID-19
For those looking to commit to action, we have identified six themes that are fundamental to our ability to function and move forward as a society.
COVID-19 and the destitution of workers in global supply chains
We need to focus our attention on identifying the human costs of such supply chain shocks and devising solutions to better safeguard the workers on whom we all depend – but so often fail to protect.
Responding to slow onset disasters: the boiling frog syndrome
Hope & cooperation or fear & despair: how does humanity respond to slow onset disasters?
Rapid Responsible Innovation in Times of Corona: Three Months Later
We provide a more extensive —but still incomplete— list of initiatives than the one we previously presented back in March; this time, the rapid responsible innovation is organized by stakeholder recipient of the innovation.