Healthcare

Beyond the decisions that doctors make, the state of the hospitals those doctors work in also largely affects the risk of dying for Covid-19 patients, according to Carri Chan, a professor at Columbia University Business School who specializes in hospital operations management.

Examining commuting patterns and lockdown measures in three major cities, Amit Khandelwal, Columbia Business School’s Jerome A. Chazen Professor of Global Business, argues that policymakers should abandon the blanket shutdown strategies commonly used in the first few months of the pandemic

Dr. Roy Vagelos ’54PS shares his perspective on the current pandemic as well as leadership insights from his long-storied tenure as CEO of Merck & Co.

Angela Rossetti ’80, a guest lecturer at Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, brings to light businesses’ evolving ethical compass by comparing the dishonorable business decisions of the 1918 flu pandemic with the collaborative, moral commitments made by today’s business leaders in the time of Coronavirus.

Sunny Grewal ’13 founded OMNY to help life sciences companies acquire the data they need to develop life-saving cures and let healthcare systems open new revenue streams.

Analyzing economic indicators and daily COVID-19 cases in China– the first country to face an outbreak – Columbia Business School research argues that the use of big data technology successfully removes this hard tradeoff between human casualties and economic costs.

Fundraising efforts, along with a generous donation from Beyond Meat, founded by Ethan Brown ’08, helps restaurant P.S. Kitchen, owned by April Tam Smith ’10 and Graham Smith ’21, provide meals to healthcare workers.

“We do what we are uniquely positioned to do best,” Li says

"There were very high projections and massive concerns about whether or not the health-care system would be able to handle it," said Carri Chan, a Columbia University business professor who specializes in hospital management.

Michael Bouton ’16, chief medical information officer of NYC Health + Hospitals, oversees crucial medical records systems for the city’s public healthcare network.