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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Merrill's employees for how quickly they adapted to their new offices in Jersey City. "I have told these people they have done the incredible," the Times reported on September 18, "and the bad news is that they have to get up and do it again tomorrow." As the economic... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
startup success—and failure—from veterans of the New Venture Competition Complete Table of Contents December 2021 Rescue & Recovery In the wake of an abuse scandal and a clean sweep of leadership at Mercy Corps, Tjada D’Oyen McKenna gets... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
"identity"? Does this require yet one more intrusion by government into the private sector? In fact, is it even achievable in countries like the U.S. at this late date? Will such efforts result in the same slow responses to an economic crisis and sluggish... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
minute—and the decision of whether to ride it out and hope for a recovery or to blink and 'puke their position' (pardon the phrase but it's how actual traders describe it)—to be an extremely harrowing experience," says professor... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Professor of Business Administration, spoke with Fiba Group executives Hüsnü Özyeğin (MBA 1969) and Murat Özyeğin (MBA 2003) about opportunities that a post-pandemic recovery may present. And in July, Linda Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
health research grants. We support the AKC Companion Animal Recovery, an organization that focuses on providing lost-dog recovery services by maintaining a database for animals equipped with an ID microchip. The AKC also has a world-class... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
team. They will be responsible for designing and maintaining the business continuity and disaster recovery management plan, ensuring a robust and effective response to potential disasters. Process: Maintaining the plan iteratively and... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
speed their recovery in a friendly, noninstitutional environment. The hospital’s advertising consists of word of mouth, and Shouldice’s popularity is such that former patients (“alumni”) return by the hundreds for reunions. The hospital... View Details
- Web
FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness
high, but that alone does not create competitiveness. Among our survey respondents, pessimism lingers regarding those elements of the U.S. business environment that most directly drive rising living standards for workers. The cyclical View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
patient outcomes poses particular challenges, in part because "outcome" is a surprisingly nebulous concept. The Value-Based Health Care model divides outcome into a tiered hierarchy: health status achieved (e.g., survival), process of View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
energy savings. If you invest in an energy recovery ventilator, for example, an owner can quickly see that the upfront capital costs for the equipment will be recouped in a few years. It’s a straightforward calculus—executives can... View Details
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
that predates and goes well beyond the recent economic downturn. It won't go away when an economic recovery occurs; in fact, absent systemic effort, it may get worse. The second is that the multidisciplinary approach of the experts we've... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
candidates whether they supported the economic recovery plan. Neither gave him a direct response, so after several minutes of candidate "answers" he followed up with, "All right, let's go back to my question." Q: What... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
of dollars every year. I estimate that liquidation is frequently chosen when a reorganization would have maximized total creditor recovery. I estimate that courts could dramatically improve creditor recovery by assigning liquidations... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
deep financial distress and had no choice but seek a foreign partner. Ghosn, who had never worked in Japan but had extensive experiences in other parts of the world, motivated the middle management at Nissan and transformed the culture of the company, leading to the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
expansion for U.S. Steel, increased output of steel from foreign sources began to impact domestic markets. With their post-war economic recoveries well underway, Europe and Japan emerged as major competitors in the global steel market.... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
show that overall creditor recovery rates are higher, and unsecured creditor recoveries and post-bankruptcy survival rates are not different when bankrupt firms sell businesses as going concerns. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Pittsburgh had a second act (or third, counting the city's reversal from untenable air and water pollution levels in the 1940s). Pittsburgh's recovery offers a potential model for Detroit. It went on to become a technology hub, anchored... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
accelerates recovery rates to such an extent that it creates a treadmill situation—we have to run very hard just to stay even with existing production levels." Information technology is also used to sift through geological data in the... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
pre-transition levels, the researchers found. Whether the new CEO was an external hire or internal promotion affected the pattern of communication, with internal appointments leading to quicker communication recovery than external hires.... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz