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Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

From Denial: Why Business... 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

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

01 Jun 2010
News

Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops

recession as feeling “like someone turned off the faucet” in construction. Still, Magagnini hopes IceStone can break even this year and turn a profit next year. The green building market is with her: McGraw-Hill Construction projects it... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

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

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

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 reflects Darwinian capitalism, then it... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

or a partial one. Developing countries have a different pandemic One notable difference among nations seemed intuitive: Developing countries have far fewer tools—they are less able to stave off a deep recession or even depression—than... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey

sense of self to the business and all its ups and downs. Taking some time away with a loved one, she said, will not only be personally beneficial but will also "lead you to the best ideas for your businesses." How should entrepreneurs go forward, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2002
News

Books

also includes a section about Germany's similar experience with Internet commercialization, as well as contributions from ten industry participants and observers. “Unless fundamental changes are made,” Mills says, “another bubble is a certainty, with the likelihood of... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

05 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 5

the net new jobs in our country. Yet in recent years, small businesses have been slow to recover from a recession and credit crisis that hit them especially hard. This lag has prompted the question, "Is there a credit gap in small... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

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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

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

respect to black leaders’ economic influence over the past century. Most remarkably, the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, was placed at the helm of the US economy in the midst of the Great Recession and executed... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

01 Dec 2022
News

A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

research into the causes of the crisis. “Jay came at the recession like the expert he was,” says Angela Crispi (MBA 1990), Executive Dean for Administration during Light’s tenure. “He moved quickly to manage expenses, while continuing to... View Details

Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Selling Luxury to Everyone

now," she said. "The consumer really wants highly designed garments at an affordable price." Tyler Morse, president of Bliss, an upscale spa and beauty company purchased by Starwood Resorts and Hotels in 2004, said that even in a View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products

21 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 1: HBS/HKS Faculty Reflections

slender sprout that was planted in the midst of the Great Recession has given flower to a strikingly successful, robust program that sets the standard globally for joint degree programs integrating business management and public policy... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Jeff Cruikshank

one of the endless interviews that were required to become the editor of the Bulletin. Now it can be told: I had low expectations of the place. I suspected that the HBS community would be exclusively interested in stocks, bonds, and other mysterious View Details

Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

market against the more incumbent and larger companies, particularly during times with great uncertainty.” About the Author Rachel Layne is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: coldsnowstorm] Related Reading Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting... View Details