Managing Complexity and COVID-19 Life, Liberty, or the Pursuit of Happiness

Foreword: Strategy and Management Perspective

PROF HOWARD THOMAS

Foreword: Medical Perspective

DR RANDEEP GULERIA

Prologue: The Impossible Trinity in a Pandemic: Life, Liberty, or the Pursuit of Happiness

1 Strategic Debate on Financial Inclusion: Is Life or Livelihood a False Choice?

AUROBINDO GHOSH

2 Universities in and Beyond a Pandemic

LILY KONG AND SOVAN PATRA

3 The Global Pandemic and Management Education: Is Management Education a Valuable Long-Lived Financial Asset?

AUROBINDO GHOSH AND HOWARD THOMAS

4 Economics Bifurcations and Asymmetries

TAIMUR BAIG

5 Taming the Pandemic by Doing the Mundane

SATARUPA BHATTACHARJEE, SHUTING LIAO, DEBASHIS PAUL, AND SANJAY CHAUDHURI

6 Virtual Fireside Conversations with Business Leaders

WITH CO-EDITOR S AUROBINDO GHOSH (AG), AMIT HALDAR (AH), AND KALYAN BHAUMIK (KB)

7 Navigating an Unchartered Sea: Finding the Right Test and Testing Pathway

AMIT HALDAR

8 The Efficacy of Mask Mandates in the United States during the Early Days of the Pandemic

RAJESH RANJAN NANDY

9 View from the Frontline: New York City

VIKRAMJIT MUKHERJEE, HIMANSHU DESHWAL, AND ALOK BHATT

10 COVID-19 Herd Immunity and Role of Vaccines

ARNAB GHOSH, KAPIL GOYAL, AND MINI P. SINGH

11.1 Virtual Fireside Conversations with Professionals and Business Leaders

WITH CO-EDITOR S AUROBINDO GHOSH (AG), AMIT HALDAR (AH), AND KALYAN BHAUMIK (KB)

11.2 Virtual Fireside Conversations with Business Leaders

WITH CO-EDITOR S AUROBINDO GHOSH (AG), AMIT HALDAR (AH), AND KALYAN BHAUMIK (KB)

12 A Family Lawyer’s Observations on Life in the Times of Coronavirus

KALYAN BHAUMIK

13 No One Can Be Safe Until Everyone Is Safe

SUNANDA K. DATTA-RAY

14 Judiciary and the Pandemic

DEBANGSU BASAK

15 COVID-19 and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises: Many Misses, Some Hits

ANURAG SRIVASTAVA

16 Bridge over Troubled Water: A CEO’s Perspective on Navigating the Pandemic

AJAY BHATTACHARYA

17.1 Virtual Fireside Conversations with Professionals and Business Leaders

ADVOCATE KALYAN BHAUMIK (KB) IN CONVERSATION WITH DR SUBORNO BOSE (SB)

17.2 Virtual Fireside Conversations with Professionals and Business Leaders

WITH CO-EDITOR S AUROBINDO GHOSH (AG), AMIT HALDAR (AH), AND KALYAN BHAUMIK (KB)

Epilogue: The Unknown Unknowns and Residual Impact in a Post-COVID-19 World

AUROBINDO GHOSH, AMIT HALDAR, AND KALYAN BHAUMIK

Biography

Aurobindo Ghosh, PhD, MS (Finance), MStat, Corresponding Editor, Assistant Professor of Finance Education, Director, Citi-SMU Financial Literacy Program, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, Singapore. Prof Ghosh teaches and has published peer-reviewed research papers, chapters, and case studies in financial economics and analytics.

Amit Haldar, MD, DM (Neurology), Ex- Fellow of Clinical Neurophysiology, Children's Hospital Boston, USA. Dr Haldar is presently a Consultant Neurologist in India, with special interest in epilepsy and has contributed many book chapters and scientific publications in neurology. His research interests include clinical studies, neurological complications, and the testing of COVID-19.

Kalyan Bhaumik, BA, LLB (Calcutta), Advocate of Supreme Court of India and High Court, Calcutta, Ex-President Rotary Club of Calcutta Old City, India. Advocate Bhaumik practises law in civil and criminal matters, including corporate law, family law, marriage and divorce law, media, entertainment, and sports law, and has authored articles in legal and business economic matters.

"This book takes a unique multi-disciplinary perspective of the pandemic, reopening strategies highlighting fissures in society and long-held assumptions. The book proposes how universities can lever on management education to help build a resilient and a more inclusive digitally enabled society."

– Ho Kwon Ping, Founding Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings and Founding Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Singapore Management University