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- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
domestic skills market is far more relevant to the future of American workers than potential job losses through expanded trade with other Pacific-rim nations. Signs of distress The long-term structural decline of American jobs began well before the View Details
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
Small-business owners trying to weather the coronavirus pandemic will face a financial blow that’s likely to be worse than what they experienced during the Great Recession more than a decade ago, says Karen... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
There were a whole lot of risk factors in the Great Recession that contributed to the collapse: It was availability of credit to subprime borrowers, the syndication of these mortgages in the residential... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
outspokenness of business leaders, marks a sharp break with the past 15 years when CEOs kept their heads down to concentrate on running their own businesses. In part, they were reacting to the challenges of the Great View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
seek larger equity stakes. “The valuations might not be as high as they would have expected, but there's still money there,” Gompers says. “There are still opportunities for those with really great companies or really View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
or a partial one. Developing countries have a different pandemic One notable difference among nations seemed intuitive: Developing countries have far fewer tools—they are less able to stave off a deep recession or even depression—than... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
repurchases, consistent with repurchases representing less of a commitment. The End of the Great Man Authors:Scott A. Snook and Rakesh Khurana Publication:In The Essential Bennis. Jossey-Bass, 2009 Publisher's book link:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
respect to black leaders’ economic influence over the past century. Most remarkably, the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, was placed at the helm of the US economy in the midst of the Great View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 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
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
market against the more incumbent and larger companies, particularly during times with great uncertainty.” About the Author Rachel Layne is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: coldsnowstorm] Related Reading Why a Blended Workforce... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
already concern that, if left unchecked, small business lending could become the next subprime lending crisis. Traditional players, such as community banks, are weighing into the debate as well, fearing that stronger regulatory oversight in the wake of the View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
much better. In this article, professor and Balanced Scorecard guru Robert S. Kaplan introduces BSC Customer Profitability Metrics. From Balanced Scorecard Report. Marketing Your Way Through a Recession Published: March 3, 2008 In a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
can think strategically about where the business will be and how they might build for the future. A great example is Lou Gerstner (HBS MBA '65). When he took the helm at IBM, he had to take $7 billion out of the company's cost structure... 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
States—about one in six private-sector jobs, according to the National Association of Manufacturers. While largely disregarded by VCs, the Great Lakes and Southeast regions lead the nation in manufacturing employment, according to the US... 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
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
the universal bank had long been disputed. After 2008, the financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession damaged many global and domestic financial services firms. While the government bailed out universal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
(July-August 2009) Abstract What if the current recession turns out to be like the Great Depression of 1929-1933? Four years from now, the United States might find itself with a still-shrinking economy, half... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209144 U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions (B) Harvard Business School Case 709-045 In March 2009, the U.S. economy was in a severe recession not seen since the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
in great part on the ability to innovate. The perennial challenge, then, is to build an organization capable of innovating again and again. Traditional, direction-setting leadership can work well when the solution to a problem is known... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne