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- 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
- 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
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
different economies that you're selling into," he continues. "For example, no one was able to foresee the recession in Asia. On the supply side, oil production has a very long lead time, particularly the big fields." Stobaugh also notes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Neurosmith’s ability to combine fun with learning. Just as Neurosmith was hitting its stride, however, the recession struck, wreaking havoc on the independent specialty stores. “Four of our top five retailers went out of business in... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
employer-based insurance will return Amitabh Chandra: More demand for insurance exchanges Recessions and pandemics create job losses that highlight the problems of tying health insurance to employment. Cleaving insurance from employment... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
businesses. But small business credit was hit hard during the recent recession and has been slow to recover. Beginning in early 2009, the federal government acted quickly to unfreeze credit markets with programs ranging from loan... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
Editor's note: The credit crisis and subsequent recession has thrown many financial and business institutions into, if not chaos, then at least a sense that the landscape underneath has shifted significantly. One institution undergoing... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
for several decades. More recently, however, the results have taken a downward trend, due in part to the impact of the Great Recession on the entire airline industry. Not only were premium service providers affected more significantly,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
unique to India before iTrust launched. “It would have saved a lot of time and emotional energy,” he writes. The Upside of the Economic Downturn Given a choice, Agarwala and Varma probably would have kept their day jobs had they foreseen the gathering storm that became... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
likely contributed to the great recession by inflating the housing and credit bubbles in 2005-2007. But when it comes to sovereign risk, they are getting it right. Across the world, there are many serious threats to the long-term ability... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
but growing quickly. What’s driving that trend? People have realized through the recession that they can lose their job, they can lose their home, but there can still be “life stability” if they have a great spouse. They’ll be OK if they... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
711-104 By the summer of 2009, many observers concluded that a catastrophic financial collapse-which seemed all but imminent the previous fall and winter-had been averted. Although the recession had still yet to be declared over, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
like a win-win for both parties. [An HBS Bulletin article in 2007 gave a detailed accounting of GoLite’s founding and eventual trademark sale to Timberland.] Yet it was not to be. The following year, as the Great Recession began to take... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/311083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-043 United Rentals (A) In the spring of 2008, the recession had decimated the company's core business, construction equipment rental. The economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
attraction or repulsion of other objects that happened to come within his sphere."8 Now, "a little muffled motor, deep in the recesses of his psyche, had started to revolve, to throb, to whir. Anthony Lowder was going to start... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
venture-financing market that had rebounded from a feeble state after the recession in the early 1990s (only $1 billion was committed in 1991) to unprecedented strength as the decade ended (with weekly commitments exceeding $1 billion).... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
Implicit in U.S. Tax Policy and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions By: Lockwood, Benjamin, and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract—We use official data and standard optimal tax conditions to infer the positive and normative judgments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne