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- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
rights as the need for new technologies like electric vehicle batteries expand. More crises and less peace are bad for everyone, certainly including businesses. As Lise Grande explained in an interview with Climate Stories: “The stakes... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
crisis. From what’s been reported by the press, the crises in the past, he’s been able to bluster through. There may be different crises here, where it’s not a question of, say, talking firmly to your... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
during financial crises because they are more dependent on bank capital to fund their growth and operations. They feel the swings up and down more acutely due to their reliance on the free flow of bank credit, according to a 1994 study by... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
came when it was selected to build custom-designed consoles and workstations for the Military Air Lift Command’s Crises Action Area at Scott AFB. That led to building all the consoles and workstations for the Strategic Air Command’s... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
on supply and demand than they do on crises in the Gulf. Even if we solved the immediate crisis in Iraq, then what? Terrorism is a global issue that will take years to address. In the investment world, I think an invasion would further... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
second edition, The Panic of 1907: Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy, delivers a groundbreaking examination of one of the most consequential crises in financial history. Deftly weaving historical evidence,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
given year. We provide a partial explanation for this statistic: a foreign aid windfall to poor, non-oil producing Muslim countries during the twin oil crises of the 1970s allowed the recipient states to become more repressive and stave... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
mechanics, types, and pricing. It then discusses the structure of the reinsurance industry and the impact of recent crises on this industry. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311102-PDF-ENG Talismark Richard S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
live.” CAMH, he is confident, will be leading the movement. Unspinning the COVID web These three stories provide yet another example of how COVID-19 has mushroomed into multiple interrelated crises and revealed underlying systemic... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
institutions in which ongoing crises of legitimacy demonstrate the need for a renewal of embedded liberalism and a revitalization of global governance. They are as follows: the activities of transnational corporations, particularly with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
(president of Taiwan) and Jacinda Ardern (the prime minister of New Zealand), who took timely government actions to prevent the spread of the virus in their countries. The lesson from these examples are that not all crises are perceived... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
competitiveness of America’s corporations. The lesson from our financial crises may be that it is not rules that are wanting but principles. Getting people to do things right has more to do with helping them understand a set of principles... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
have developed a perspective on strategies for the near-term and long-term. But first, before anything else, it’s important to stop the bleeding; that is, deal with crises and pain points. Whether the problems involve financial distress... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-426 Allstate Corporation, 2007-2013 After five years of global financial crises and natural catastrophes, Allstate, the U.S.'s number two... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
tech bubble burst in 2001. Accounting scandals destroyed Enron in 2001 and WorldCom in 2002. And the current global financial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression, has yet to run its course. It’s no accident that all these financial View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
the harder one becomes to imagine (and, perhaps, the easier one becomes to start). A third and final lesson is that when a crisis strikes complacent investors it causes much more disruption than when it strikes battle-scarred ones. For the historical record shows that... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
as pre-packaged meat eliminating butchers in supermarkets and apparel goods retailers contracting third parties to sort, hang, and tag incoming products so that they are shelf-ready. As a consequence, the ordinary levers that retailers could pull to respond to View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
short-term debt financing, an attractive source of funding in good times but an accelerant of financial crises when things go bad. And we're getting closer to adopting a "resolution regime" that could enable regulators to wind... View Details
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
financial crises (we were lucky to have thought of that over a year ago), and on salesmen. There's been growing interest in the topic of salesmanship over the last several years. In 2008, the University of Reading hosted a conference... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
international economic and financial crises highlights the need for a comprehensive framework to assess the robustness of national economic and financial systems. This paper proposes a new comprehensive approach to measure, analyze, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne