# Professor Anat Lechner notes that crises often give rise to innovation and capacity

1 Faculty News March 11, 2020 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031840.jpg?itok=6TvdRAWj)>

Excerpt from [Adweek](https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/companies-might-send-millions-of-employees-to-work-from-home-is-that-such-a-bad-thing/) -- “'There are quite a few people who have never worked from home and are not accustomed to doing so, so there has to be a bit of a learning period,' [Lechner](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/anat-lechner) said. 'The learning curve takes time—and we won’t have time to learn.'”

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