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- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM EST, 11 Jan 2017
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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
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
hope my impact will be,” she says. “The market crash in the 1920s, the recession in 2008—we know what can happen when people lose faith in the markets. That’s why we’re all here working really hard to earn—and to keep—the public’s trust.” View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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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
- 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
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
would it take to force change of that magnitude? Dafny: We’re talking about pretty painful and uncertain 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 View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
success. It shows entrepreneurs how to grow their business with less money than they thought they needed and steers them to free quality advice. Winning in Turbulence by Darrell Rigby (MBA ’78) (Harvard Business Press) Many more companies achieve dramatic gains during... 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
- 08 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years
out of space on my bookshelf.) The objective has been to connect information from multiple sources to give a different twist to a current topic. Many columns over the years have dealt with the management implications of current events from 9/11 to the New Economy to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
engine for innovation and job creation to drive competitiveness, while also providing a path to a prosperous lifestyle for countless American families. But today, small businesses are not creating these jobs at the rate that we need. The View Details
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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
spent the recession devising machinery and prototypes for his mill, and when investment funds became available in the late 1840s, he was well positioned to put his inventions to work. 19 Dennison’s genius was for innovation, not... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
and then worked at a computer consulting firm in Boston. When the firm closed during the recession of the early 1970s, her boss steered her toward an MBA, and Rapone, ever fearless, landed at Harvard. A twenty-year career in retailing... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 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
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
cool, recessed light fixtures. The common-area kitchenettes are light, airy, and include eating areas and dishwashers, so no more nasty notes about who left what in the sink. In mid-August, 73 intrepid HBS staffers spent the night in... View Details