ALISON BEARD: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Alison Beard.
If there were ever a time for world governments and businesses to come together to fix a crisis, the pandemic should have been it. Sure, there were some big successes — not least three vaccines in record time. But with millions dead and Covid still running rampant, we certainly can’t call it a win.
So what does that mean for all the other huge crises we’re facing today — from political polarization to unfettered technology, climate change to a war in Europe being waged by a nuclear power? Can we get it together — locally, nationally, globally – and work to solve these problems in a more cooperative and coordinated way?
Our guest today thinks we can — with much more pragmatic public and private sector leadership. Having spent the past few years in a perpetual state of anxiety about these issues, I’m…
