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- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
were asking important questions and making changes, and West saw companies taking initial steps to address diversity issues, including hiring diversity officers as senior executives. With a focus on diversity, the numbers began to show some signs of improvement. But... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 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
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
of declining revenues and profits at Lind as exchange rates and the impact of the Great Recession took its toll on the firm. Without a quick solution, Lind could be pushed into bankruptcy. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
Sahlman, Joseph B. Lassiter, and Liz KindHarvard Business School Case 812-049 In the three years since Bishop and Button purchased Verengo in a leveraged buyout (LBO), the company had gone through dramatic changes. Initially a residential windows and insulation firm,... 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
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
Second, despite an initial flurry of protectionism and inward-looking politics, it will become clear that the best way to lessen the severity of worldwide recessions is to increase the volume of interdependent trade among nations. Which... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
decline in sales and profits in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial market crisis and economic recession and is now overburdened with debt. To regain its competitiveness, the company has to significantly reduce its debt by billions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Balance Pouring yourself into a single full-time job is the riskiest move you can make. Your parents ’ advice to focus on one career path? It doesn’t work anymore, for reasons ranging from recessions to student loan debt, the gig economy,... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
have a similar issue. In fact, the global recession has made that issue more visible: production efficiencies have reduced the cost of goods sold at S&P 500 companies, while SG&A as a percentage of sales has not decreased. If you... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 210-001 Hit with an industry recession and the global financial crisis of 2008, in January 2009 LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A., one of the world's largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
practices and a distinctive strategy, the company has generated enviable financial results. During the Great Recession of 2007–2009, the company went to great lengths to avoid layoffs. But as the case opens in 2013, one division of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
positive note, however, healthcare companies were commonly thought to be recession proof and thus might be a sound investment in the event of a down-turning economy. Burnham had to decide if this was the right time for an exit, and if so,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
credit to people they didn’t know from Adam. This, and the devastating economic effects of the Panic of 1837 and the recession that lingered in its aftermath well into the following decade, contributed to the growing demand for outside... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
it had taken over 10 years and thousands of hours of meetings. Issues such as the continued availability of funding and leadership turnover still threatened the effectiveness of the collaboration, and the economic recession would almost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace