Standout Companies and Breakout Phenomena

After Hours

• Episode: Standout Companies and Breakout Phenomena
• Website: After Hours
• Feed URL: http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/harvardbusiness/after-hours
• Duration: 00:29:50
• Published: 2020-04-08 18:15

Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss companies that are standing out during the coronavirus crisis, including Zoom and World Central Kitchen (founded by Chef José Andrés‎). They also discuss breakout phenomena associated with the widespread shutdown.

Recent picks, and recommended reading/websites:

• Just Capital
• “The Korean Clusters” (Reuters)
• World Central Kitchen
• “Spillover” (David Quammen)
• Podcast about Spillover (Scientific American
• “From Bats to Human Lungs, the Evolution of a Coronavirus” (Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker)
• DonorsChoose.org

To join our mailing list, click here: After Hours Sign-Up. Visit our website at HarvardAfterHours.com. Email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected]. Follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.