Recession - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: Hiraman] Related Reading Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon Why Backstage Capital Invests in ‘Underestimated’ Entrepreneurs Research Paper: Does Venture Capital Attract Human... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking

03 Dec 2008
What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

Summing Up The current global recession has, judging from responses to this month's column, many origins, among them housing and credit. All, of course, are traceable to human responses to both perceived opportunities and calamities,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Profile

Paris Wallace

Eric Boutin in 2008 in his last year at HBS. Good Start Genetics is now a successful late stage venture with more than 150 employees. The company offers a fertility diagnostic that allows parents to determine if their children are at risk of being born with a View Details

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

2000, recovery, Great Recession in 2008, recovery--that it makes trend analysis (and consistent productivity growth) impossible. A related argument is that when labor is relatively cheap, growing companies are encouraged to hire more... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

17 Aug 2022
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

they should. It’s like two covers of a big book.” That continued faith in the markets is what drives Jones. “It’s what I hope my impact will be,” she says. “The market crash in the 1920s, the recession in 2008—we know what can happen when... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

03 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 3

Recession did not alter the relationship between the coincident index and IVF use. Conclusions: Our study demonstrates a positive relationship between the economy and IVF use, with greater magnitude in states with insurance mandates. This... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

corresponded with the stock market peaks such as in the late 1990s and 2006-2007, with dips during recessions in the early 1990s and 2001. What influenced M&A in different time periods during spikes and dips is under debate. Previous... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

different," Conforti confesses. "The plan all along was to turn Finale into a national dessert chain. We ran into the buzz saw of the recession just as we opened a fourth restaurant in a high-end mall. That's now a couple of years in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

chain. We ran into the buzz saw of the recession just as we opened a fourth restaurant in a high-end mall. That’s now a couple of years in the rearview mirror, but you can’t deny that the recession had an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

demand-side recession or depression. Producers (businesses) realize they’re going to have less demand for their products in the future, so they start contracting their operations. That means laying people off. Now you’re really in a... View Details

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

There were a whole lot of risk factors in the Great Recession that contributed to the collapse: It was availability of credit to subprime borrowers, the syndication of these mortgages in the residential mortgage-backed securities market,... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

regulation. That goal had almost fully materialized when the recession caused my post-law school employer to freeze hiring and rescind offers. I had to pivot. Luckily, I landed at HBS in a role working with faculty to develop, research,... View Details

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

currency, triggering a chain reaction that some believe contributed to the Great Recession of 2008. Here’s their thinking: Although the depressed value of the yuan increased the cost of raw materials imported by China, it produced a huge... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

example, the vast majority of men (69 percent) and women (71 percent) reported the economic recession to be their top political concern as a corporate director, as did most US (68 percent) and non-US (70 percent) respondents. Regulatory... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

professor Michael I. Norton and colleagues Elizabeth W. Dunn and Lara B. Aknin, described in the journal Science, looks into how and why spending money on others promotes happiness. Norton explains more in this Q&A. 7. Marketing Your Way Through a View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jun 2003
News

Student Conferences, at a Glance

technology, financial services, security, and Web services. The worst of the media industry’s recession may be over. The popularity of integrating various media properties (e.g., AOL Time Warner) appears to be waning. Latin American... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

contribute to this gap, Mills says, and it's where she's focusing some of her early attention. "For the bankers, there's the cost of making the loan, the fact that we have fewer banks now than we did before 2008, and the toll that the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

was to make a series of unsustainable promises that sustained the illusion of prosperity" by extending easy credit to fuel consumption, covering health care and retirement costs, and directly employing people while lowering tax rates. "You take that and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

organization during “bad times”? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from U.S. administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great View Details