Publications

08 Jun 2024
News

Investing in Growth in Turbulent Times

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

characterized quite often by turbulent situations. When you are negotiating in a turbulent environment, you feel reassured if the entity you are transacting with is likely to be around tomorrow. Otherwise,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Mar 2017
News

Cost-cutting Leads to Turbulence in the Airline Industry

01 Jul 2020
News

Become a More Resilient Leader in Turbulent Times

July 2009
Case

Arcor: Global Strategy and Local Turbulence (Abridged)

Argentine confectionery manufacturer, Arcor Group, seeks to implement an international strategy but in 2003, while recovering from the Argentine financial crisis, globalization plans are thwarted. Already Latin America's leading candy producer and an exporter to over... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Currency; Global Strategy; Expansion; Balance and Stability; Food and Beverage Industry; Latin America; Argentina

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

long-standing business leaders from emerging economies across the globe. They offer compelling insights into how entrepreneurs based in these countries survived turbulence and change, and the lessons that can be learned from their... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

18 Oct 2017
News

What five extraordinary leaders during turbulent times can teach today's leaders

December 1995 (Revised February 2006)
Teaching Note

Open Market, Inc.: Managing in a Turbulent Environment TN

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Janis Lee Gogan

Teaching Note for (9-196-097). View Details

Article

Speed and Search: Designing Organizations for Turbulence and Complexity

By: Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan W. Rivkin

Keywords: Design; Organizations

04 Oct 2017
News

Harvard’s Nancy Koehn on Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times

November–December 1987
Article

Commercial Banks: Taking Shape for Turbulent Times

By: D. B. Crane and R. G. Eccles

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

October 2020
Case

Holden Forests & Gardens: Leading in Turbulent Times

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Ankita Panda

Article

The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times

By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani and Zhaogang Song

This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relations shape their trading behavior in the corporate bond market. Dealers charge lower spreads to dealers with whom they have the strongest ties and more so during periods of market turmoil. Systemically important dealers... View Details

Keywords: OTC Markets; Network; Corporate Bonds; Crisis; Intermediation Chains; Leaning Against The Wind; Networks; Bonds; Behavior; Financial Crisis

Historian Nancy Koehn says great leaders are not born, they're made.

Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian, is the author of a new book called "Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times." It examines the lives, successes... View Details

April 1981
Case

GM & Ford: Decision Making in Turbulent Times

23 Mar 2017
Cold Call Podcast

Cost-cutting Leads to Turbulence in the Airline Industry

Keywords: Re: Susanna Gallani; Air Transportation; Travel

October 2015 (Revised August 2019)
Background Note

Higher Education in China: Internationalization in Turbulent Times

By: William C. Kirby, Joycelyn W. Eby and Yuanzhuo Wang

The rapid growth in quantity and quality of universities in China since 1978 is the most recent evolution in a long history of higher education. From as early as the Tang Dynasty, academies existed to prepare scholars for the civil service examination, but by the... View Details

Keywords: Non-profit Management; University Administration; University Faculty; University Curriculum; Education Reform; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Higher Education; History; Governance; Education Industry; China