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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
When a Rainy Day Comes: The Economics of Happiness
involving some 300,000 individuals in Europe and the United States over the last 25 years. Participants were asked to describe their state of mind by selecting one of three answers: “very happy,” “fairly happy,” and “not too happy.” The authors found that the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs mobilize to assist small business owners
by getting the best resources to entrepreneurs who are poised for growth and making positive social impacts in their communities,” Baker says. The team traveled to Detroit, New Orleans, Albuquerque, and other cities that have been hard-hit by the View Details
- 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM EST, 11 Jan 2017
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided
Five years of research from Harvard Business School's US Competitiveness Project, as well as the findings from the 2016 surveys on US competitiveness, present a sobering picture of the deep structural challenges facing the United States. The US needs a national... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change There’s nothing like a global recession to test... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Annual Report Details Strong Financial Growth
management knowledge fueled revenue growth, more than half of which came from two market-sensitive units — Executive Education and Harvard Business School Publishing. Both units have rebounded strongly from the recession four years ago.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
returns based on innovation and intellectual property. It's more than the Internet, more than Silicon Valley. At the moment, we're in a full-fledged tech recession in the United States, with scary implications for the global economy.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin Last summer, HBS Online asked the market research firm City Square Associates to poll 1,000 American adults to gauge their... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
explores new wrinkles in this age-old formula — and how government policy may affect entrepreneurship. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5865.html. Marketing Your Way through a Recession In a recession, consumers become value-oriented,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
2009) “We’re in a very deep jobs crisis, and we’re not coming out of it. It’s too glib to say that jobs are a lagging indicator.” — Professor Bill George, commenting on how the recession has reshaped the American workplace. (Associated... View Details
- Profile
Kenny Salas
"But she didn’t manage growth well," says Kenny. "She didn’t have guidance; she didn’t have access to resources, capital, and expertise." When the recession hit in the 1990s, she struggled and eventually sold all of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
know we have the capability in McHenry to fix any problem and make that product work.” CGM has some twenty full-time U.S. employees. Although the global recession brought about downsizing at the company in 2009, it was also an opportunity... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
And more than 300 members of the MBA Classes of 2009 and 2010 shared their insights from navigating the Great Recession with this year’s graduating students. On the lighter side, students were excited that alumni around the world could... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
entrepreneurial businesses (www.nvca.org/) and fuels prosperity. Why fix what ain’t broke? Alas, Congress didn’t fix the AMT problem; lawmakers just patched it for one year. Expect the tax debate to resurface in the not-too-distant future. With a View Details
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
Small-business owners trying to weather the coronavirus pandemic will face a financial blow that’s likely to be worse than what they experienced during the Great Recession more than a decade ago, says Karen G. Mills, senior fellow at... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
measures, and they require a lot of work. You can see why people are, in my view, overly content with the status quo. When the next recession hits, I expect to see the employers that are purchasing health plans start to demand something... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Career & Professional Development Responds to COVID-19
previous recessions with our current students. Offered a full-time data science course over the summer for students to invest in themselves. The course culminated with students putting their skills to the test at the end of the summer... View Details
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
years of experience (and the fact that you have seen recessions and market fluctuations), what is your advice to less-seasoned HBS graduates? O'Lear: Buckle your seatbelt. If you accept the premise that the U.S. postindustrial economy... View Details
- 24 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Brexit is a Big Deal
of England has clearly prepared thoroughly for Brexit. But few British or European businesses have any contingency plans. The Brexit vote will drive Europe into recession and highlight further the structural weakness of its social... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch