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Reflections on the Ongoing Coronavirus Crisis

After Hours

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Hbr, Business/investing, Ideas, Mba, Economics, Professor, Business/management, News/business News, Management, News, Presents, Finance, Faculty, Harvard, Business

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Youngme Moon and Mihir Desai discuss the latest economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis and share some of their personal reflections from the week.

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0:00.0

Ted Audio Collective. I believe in rethinking ideas we've taken for granted to learn how to live better.

0:14.1

In my new podcast, Rethinking, I ask today's greatest minds, how they think, and what assumptions

0:20.1

we should all reconsider. Listen to rethinking wherever you get your

0:23.4

podcasts.

0:25.8

HBR presents. Hi everyone you're listening to after hours I'm Yum Mee here and Felix

0:47.0

unfortunately couldn't be with us tonight but he will be back next week as you

0:51.0

can imagine all of our schedules have been scrambled across multiple

0:53.9

time zones so we weren't able to find a time the three of us could intersect but

0:58.1

Mehere you and I will just have to do our best. We'll do our best. Let's give it a shot.

1:01.9

So the last time we sat down to

1:03.2

tape it was just one week ago but it already feels like a lifetime doesn't

1:07.1

it? Several lifetimes. So here's the plan. We're going to try to do two things in

1:11.8

this podcast. One is we're going to try to do two things in this podcast. One is we're going to try to

1:14.5

unpack some of the latest economic news from the past few days and then two we're

1:19.3

going to share some of our own personal reflections from the week.

1:22.6

And what we're not going to do is talk about the public health dimensions of this,

1:25.7

because we are not the best source of that.

1:27.5

That's obviously the most important angle on all of this, but there are many better sources

1:32.2

for that. So we're going to focus on the economics and business of this.

1:34.6

Okay, great.

1:38.6

Okay, so before we begin a caveat, this is a fast moving story. So there's a

1:45.1

good chance that by the time you're listening to this, some of the things we

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