1st Edition
Managing Complexity and COVID-19 Life, Liberty, or the Pursuit of Happiness
This book brings together insights and perspectives from leading medical, legal, and business professionals, as well as academics and other members of civil society, on the threats and opportunities to life during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective for policymakers, researchers, and medical professionals to assess the different practical strategies, and risk and crisis management processes available to them in addressing the very difficult choices with which they are presented and their implications.
The book presents a framework for the different facets of strategic choices faced by policymakers between life and livelihood, and the challenges of protecting health versus reopening the economy. It also evaluates the intense challenges faced by frontline medical professionals and scientists during an unfolding catastrophe. Finally, the authors explore the societal and human elements of the pandemic and its impact on family dynamics, society, education, and business, including the technology, creative, entertainment, and leisure industries.
This book is deliberately short and captures key insights on the COVID-19 pandemic to form an interdisciplinary overview for professionals, policymakers, and business leaders to consider the long-term implications of the pandemic and lessons for future crises.
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
Part I Strategy in a Pandemic: Financial Economics of the Strategic Choices
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)
Part II Therapy under Uncertainty: Medical Perspective in a Pandemic
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)
Part III Humanity in Pandemic: Human Elements in a Crisis
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
