COVID-19 RECOVERY SERIES:

To truly ensure economic racial justice and a more equitable recovery post-COVID, we need to help existing and would-be BIPOC entrepreneurs. Gail Goodman discusses how inclusive entrepreneurship is a powerful tool for battling income inequality and workforce displacement.

Even before the outbreak of COVID-19, the path to economic opportunity in the United States has become less clear as workers’ careers have taken increasingly non-traditional routes. Mike Meotti and Drew Magliozzi paint a compelling portrait of how technology can carve new tracks and create new ways of working.

Many social entrepreneurs have a vision, a passion for social impact that often never gets off the ground. An energy manifestation model can help avoid the common pitfalls of losing sight of the original vision and changing course. Donna Wing discusses a practical application of the model to bridge social impact through an applied example from her own social entrepreneurship project.

Facing consistently overcrowded facilities, Joe Finn discusses how shelter providers recognized that they had an impossible choice: should they deny shelter to individuals in need, subjecting them to the risks associated with cold weather exposure, or continue to allow them into shelters where they would be susceptible to COVID-19, a quickly spreading and often deadly virus?

Amit Kapoor, Michael Green, Mark Esposito and Chirag Yadav discuss how the Indian government has recently taken steps to shift its focus beyond the mere pursuit of economic outcomes to directly target the most deprived regions of the country. By fostering collaboration and utilizing a stakeholder-oriented approach, the Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP) has already shown significant improvements.

In Rebecca Henderson’s new book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, there opens a new path for the future of capitalism, a ‘journey’ that offers rewards, but is demanding.

Fundamentally, self-reliance in the twenty-first century is about thinking for yourself and not becoming paralyzed by the data deluge and overwhelming information we suffer through on a daily basis. Vikram Mansharamani discusses ways to harnesses the power of experts and technologies without giving up autonomy.

Marta Lucia Ramírez, the Vice President of the Republic of Colombia, discusses how national economies weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic must take measures that include comprehensive actions for women's economic empowerment, as a prerequisite for a sustainable recovery.

Professor Rosabeth Kanter, in her book, counsels that today's challenges - climate change, COVID-19, systemic racism, economic inequality - require a new paradigm of thinking to upend the status quo. “To think outside the building” is a call to action for bold advanced leaders with the mission to tackle the world’s biggest problems when we need social, economic, and environmental solutions more than ever.

COVID-19 is a global humanitarian crisis that threatens both our lives and our livelihoods. The outlook is especially severe for regions like Latin America, where economies are characterized by high levels of inequality and informality. Andrés Cadena discusses how an upgraded conditional cash transfer program can help Latin America so it does not lose a decade of socioeconomic progress.

In order to overcome the disproportionate economic devastation that COVID-19 has had and will continue to have on millions of women around the world, Maria Bobenrieth, Aditi Mohapatra, and Marissa Wesely discuss ways we can achieve women’s economic empowerment and advance economic justice and rights.