# Professor Arun Sundararajan explains how crises can serve as catalysts for change

1 Faculty News April 16, 2020 ![Inventiva Logo 190 x 145](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/inventiva%20logo%20190%20x%20145.jpg?itok=mkvv6eN-)>

Excerpt from [Inventiva](https://www.inventiva.co.in/stories/nandini/when-major-businesses-are-weeping-facing-crisis-some-sectors-are-flourishing-in-lockdown/) -- "'Crisis can be sort of a catalyst or can speed up changes that are on the way — it almost can serve as an accelerant,' said [Arun Sundararajan](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), an NYU Stern School of Business professor researching how digital technologies transform society. This is the time of distress. People are losing their jobs; some are being denied their salaries and some have been laid off."

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