Core Insights: Strategy
After the success of 'Leading Through COVID-19' and the dedicated channel to Behavioural Science Warwick Business School's Core Insights editorial team bring expert advice and knowhow on Strategy to help businesses and organisations. Bringing you the leading academics from Warwick Business School, this podcast series will reveal the latest research and thinking from world-class Professors detailing how Apple do strategy, how to exploit luck, the new open strategy vogue and more.
Core Insights: Strategy
Is repurposing drugs our only hope in tackling Coronavirus?
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Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Ayfer Ali, Assistant Professor of Strategy, on how repurposing already existing drugs provides our best route to treating Coronavirus. Dr Ali reveals how a drugs repurposing strategy can unearth dozens of compounds in the fight against the global pandemic. She discusses how the steroid dexamethasone, which a study showed could reduce the risk of death by a third among hospitalised patients requiring ventilation, could be one of many possible re-purposed drugs that may halt COVID-19's spread. Read more from Dr Ali on repurposing drugs here.