recovery - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Feb 2023
HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

inflation that’s plaguing other nations, resulting partly from the COVID recovery and Russia’s Ukraine invasion. “In a tightly knit society, education plays a crucial role in creating a sense of national, collective identity, and that’s... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

iStockphoto/SergeyChayko] Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery Are companies reponsible for their employees' well-being? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

2020
Discussion Paper

Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch

This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety

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10 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?

for now, could inflation continue to spiral? Not necessarily, Cavallo says, although he cautions that recovery could take a while. “Even if the supply disruptions ended today, our results show that the price impact tends to last for many... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

problems. For each condition, there is a cycle of care that generally progresses from prevention through early detection, diagnosis, treatment, recovery and rehabilitation through long-term sustainability of health. While that cycle of... View Details

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

burnout started to percolate. "Generation X entered the workforce after the tumultuous economic recovery of the 1970s and enjoyed the roaring ‘90s, only to experience the dot.com bust, followed by the financial crisis in 2008.” Generation... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

01 Dec 2023
News

Joint Venture

The human knee is a marvel. It’s the hinge at the center of our gait, the evolutionary adaptation that makes humans the only fully bipedal mammals on the planet. But the knee also is a complicated and vulnerable knot of bone, muscle, and sinew. Nearly everyone knows... View Details

Keywords: Shoshi Parks

08 Mar 2021
In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Apr 2016
HBS Seminar

Richard Freeman, Harvard University & NBER

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

reducing the salesforce. Instead of cutting staff, however, Watanabe took the opposite approach, reassuring employees the company would do everything it could to retain jobs, deliver health and emotional support to victims, and contribute to the View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Skydeck - Alumni

demand, we offer a second collection of alumni recounting their experience at their first jobs. Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders Lindsay Ronga (MBA 2009) suffered from a severe eating disorder for seven years before eventually finding a path to successful... View Details

24 Apr 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

enormous value for all its stakeholders. Bill George is Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School, former Chair & CEO of Medtronic, and author of Discover Your True North. Related Reading: A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World Excellence Comes From... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

insights and practices as pandemic recovery plans are developed. Consider these five elements of organizational decision-making: information gathering; strategy; combining long-term thinking with short-term actions; clear communication... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

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Alumni - Global

Nov 2023 HBS Alumni News From the Brink How HBS alumni helped create a path for Puerto Rico’s fiscal recovery Re: Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994); Adam Chepenik (MBA 2009); By: Ralph Ranalli 03 Nov 2023 HBS Clubs Global Networking Night; Sweden... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

valuations of the company. Since the restructuring plan proposed to give creditors a substantial amount of new common stock, their relative financial recoveries depended materially on what the firm, and this stock, was ultimately worth.... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

09 Nov 2023
News

From the Brink

oversight authority to take the politics out of the recovery effort; a boost in Medicaid coverage to shore up the health sector; and a fiscal stimulus, through the earned income tax credit, to move workers into the formal labor sector and... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Joseph B. Fuller, James Palano, Allison Bailey, Nithya Vaduganathan, Elizabeth Kaufman, Renée Laverdière, and Sibley Lovett. A Recovery Squandered , Report, Harvard Business School Project on U.S. Competitiveness, 2019. With Michael E.... View Details

30 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration

effectiveness, reduced emissions from the incineration process, and greater recovery of specific commodities such as metals from waste. Globally, waste incineration remains the most common method of municipal waste treatment, after... View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

expansion of the world economy prompted a recovery in the growth rate of world FDI. The system of international cartels was dismantled. By 1960 the world stock of FDI had reached $60 billion. By 1980 it was over $500 billion. These were... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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Past Issues - Alumni

the New Venture Competition Complete Table of Contents December 2021 Rescue & Recovery In the wake of an abuse scandal and a clean sweep of leadership at Mercy Corps, Tjada D’Oyen McKenna gets the humanitarian aid organization back to the... View Details

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