Crisis Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

be taken. The briefings were led mainly by health and epidemiology experts who had limited political affiliation. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

from that experience in recent weeks as she helps government officials explore ways to shore up the 30 million small businesses that provide almost half of the country’s jobs. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

September 1996 (Revised November 1996)
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Grupo Sidek (B)

By: Kenneth A. Froot and Alberto Moel

Supplements the (A) case. Designed to be handed out midway through class. View Details

Keywords: Foreign Exchange; Real Estate; Debt Policy; Tourism; Steel; Crisis Management

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Mediating in the Wake of Disaster

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris

Keywords: Crisis Management

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08 Dec 2009
News

Don’t Scare the Bankers

Clayton Rose, a former JP Morgan executive whose new elective, Managing the Financial Firm, examines the challenges of financial services leadership in the context of the financial crisis. For the course, Rose wrote new cases on JP... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Management; Management

07 Sep 2021
News

Embracing Activism for Social Change

much of her first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

July 2009 (Revised January 2014)
Case

Alacra, Inc.

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Aldo Sesia

In 2009, the CEO of Alacra, a venture-backed information services firm that provides customized data primarily to financial services firms, must decide how to respond to the global economic crisis. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Information Industry

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01 Mar 2009
News

The Case for Studying Financial History

HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

July 1995 (Revised April 1996)
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Union Carbide's Bhopal Plant (B)

By: Debora L. Spar

Describes the aftermath of the explosion at Bhopal. View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management

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November 2007 (Revised April 2008)
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Antegren: A Beacon of Hope (C)

By: Joshua D. Margolis, Thomas J. DeLong and Terence Heymann

Keywords: Crisis Management

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November 1990 (Revised June 1991)
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Final Voyage of the Challenger: Aftermath

Presents some of the events after the Challenger disaster. Includes the activities of the Rogers Commission, the changes in Morton Thiokol, and some recent problems with the Space Shuttle. View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management; Aerospace Industry; United States

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November 2007 (Revised April 2008)
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Antegren: A Beacon of Hope (D)

By: Joshua D. Margolis, Thomas J. DeLong and Terence Heymann

Keywords: Crisis Management

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April 1990
Case

What Is Done Is Dun . . . & Bradstreet

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein

Keywords: Crisis Management; Financial Services Industry

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01 Mar 2010
News

Money Matters

Indian stock market was booming, and investors had grown accustomed to outsized returns. Then the bottom fell out. The financial crisis spawned in the United States reverberated around the globe during the summer and fall of 2008, and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Mar 2009
News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

bikes; now he is exporting to the United States and Europe. Wu and Yin are just two of more than 345,000 dollar millionaires who now live in China. Not only has China left its imperial past far behind. So far, the fastest-growing economy in the world has also View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2009
News

Faculty Research Online

Harreld describe how IBM managed to survive a crisis in the early 1990s and reposition itself to lead the industry. The lesson from IBM is that innovation is not a side business but the very foundation of a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

22 Feb 2022
News

A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs

David Perez (MBA 1996) readily admits that launching Avance Investment Management in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, was “the worst timing ever.” But the Cuban native, who studied engineering in East Germany and saved his... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

September 1996 (Revised January 1997)
Case

Technology Crises and the Future of Agribusiness: BSE in Europe

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Juan Enriquez-Cabot

Keywords: Technology; Agribusiness; Crisis Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe

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01 Mar 2010
News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

In the wake of the financial crisis and the massive federal response, it has become fashionable to declare that “too big to fail is too big to exist.” Powerful lawmakers and popular commentators regularly endorse this notion, promising to... View Details

Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government