Coronavirus and Business: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

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LEAD YOUR BUSINESS THROUGH THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

by Martin Reeves, Nikolaus Lang, and Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak

The Covid-19 crisis has now reached a new critical phase where public health systems need to act decisively to contain the growth in new epicenters outside China.

Clearly, the main emphasis is and should be on containing and mitigating the disease itself. But the economic impacts are also significant, and many companies are feeling their way towards understanding, reacting to, and learning lessons from rapidly unfolding events. Unanticipated twists and turns will be revealed with each news cycle, and we will only have a complete picture in retrospect.

Nevertheless, given the very different degrees of preparedness across companies, ...