How to Care for Your Workforce in a Crisis
Competing home responsibilities, barriers to inclusion, and social isolation are everyone’s problem. It’s time for businesses to fight back.
Now more than ever, business and government have a crucial role to play in protecting people’s health, bolstering the economy, and developing both practical solutions and game-changing innovations. At BCG, we’re working with companies and public-sector organizations around the world to manage the impact of the coronavirus, with actions ranging from rapid responses to more fundamental, strategic shifts. We’re also helping leaders look much further ahead and envision how the crisis will continue to affect the competitive environment and what society will need in the coming months and years. This page is updated frequently with the latest COVID-19 information and insights.
Competing home responsibilities, barriers to inclusion, and social isolation are everyone’s problem. It’s time for businesses to fight back.
A systematic approach to postpandemic ways of working can capture the upsides of these models while mitigating the risks.
Learn how your company can hold onto the valuable productivity gains made during the pandemic.
Survival is top of mind today for many companies, but thriving is the long game. That calls on leaders to respond to a new environment, a new customer, and heightened societal expectations. Here are five imperatives for adapting to and shaping the post-COVID world.
Learn how your company can hold onto the valuable productivity gains made during the pandemic.
Learn how your company can hold onto the valuable productivity gains made during the pandemic.
The fight will be long. Businesses and society must plan for multiple scenarios to survive the crisis and emerge stronger.
Keep resilience on the transformation agenda. Change programs that prioritize growth, debt reduction, and operational flexibility realize the full value of resilience and build advantage for the next crisis.
The pandemic has amplified trends that were already underway, but it is also driving radical changes in consumer behavior and other areas that will affect investments in industries.
People who cross borders create vast global networks that generate enormous opportunities, in terms of both economic value and human values. It’s time to explore this immense potential.
As the post-COVID world emerges, leaders must shift their attention back to broader challenges. By addressing three key themes, they can position their businesses to succeed in and help shape the new reality.
For brands hoping to lure value-conscious consumers, pricing is crucial. But a BCG survey shows that offering the lowest price isn’t always the winning move.
Surging demand for online fitness classes and do-it-yourself hair styling proved fleeting. But other behavioral shifts—such as increased use of digital and of healthier products—are enduring.
A nuanced understanding of what really drives buying decisions in the post-COVID-19 world is crucial to maximizing share in a target market.
Ecosystems have the power to reshape the health care industry and end the tradeoff between access, quality, and cost. Here’s how.
What has worked, what can be improved, and what needs to be reimagined so that we are better prepared for the next pandemic and better able to improve health in the world’s poorest nations?
Concerns about Black hesitancy during the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine have distracted health officials from the real issue: equitable access.
Protecting the health-vulnerable population first can shave months off a country’s reopening.
Multiple scenarios for the US and four EU countries point to a continued need for COVID-19 testing through 2024, with demand peaking in the seasonally affected first quarters of 2021 and 2022.
Managing Director & Senior Partner; Global Leader, BCG TURN and Transformation; Managing Partner, BCG Greater China
Hong Kong
