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- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Responding to COVID-19 in early 2020 was an exercise in crisis leadership. In 2021, the pandemic feels like a painful marathon that will never end. The rapidly spreading virus forced a precipitous shift to remote work at many companies,... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
and prepare to lead transformation. While it is still not clear how long the health crisis and resulting economic crisis will last, most agree that the world will be different in the future. Use the insights... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
Henri-Louis Bergson’s injunction: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
diagnosis of the Great Depression, and many observers offered a similar diagnosis for the Great Recession that took root in connection with the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Consequently, the policy View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
including a renewed commitment to responsible behavior by those individuals and (surviving) firms whose actions created excessive risk in the first place. The crisis is often discussed as purely a technical... View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- News
HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China
In response to the widening coronavirus outbreak in China and globally, HBS alumni are launching efforts intent on supporting the crisis relief efforts to Wuhan and other parts of China. One alumni group,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
changes in approach, and what changes or circumstances gave rise to those changes in approach. We do not assume that making changes in response to changing circumstances is a bad thing. But the frequency of changes suggests a lack of... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
globalized business world, and technologies that are constantly changing. Within that dynamic environment, a curveball can come from anywhere: a portion of their businesses may suddenly dry up, belt-tightening layoffs may loom, or strategic View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that we aren’t using the View Details
- April 2004 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo SA (Telesp)
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Elizabeth Collins and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
Set in Brazil during the period of telecommunication's privatization, CEO Manoel Amorim must define a sustainable strategy and build capabilities in his organization. View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Emerging Markets; Privatization; Financial Crisis; Telecommunications Industry; Brazil
Applegate, Lynda M., Elizabeth Collins, and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo SA (Telesp)." Harvard Business School Case 804-149, April 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
group, if it existed today, could be. What would their key activities be in our current era? Bower and Paine: We see a new CED as a possible response to the challenge of scaling up the kinds of work by individual firms that we describe in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
is one of those corners of finance that is very useful to understand, whether or not you work in finance,” he says. In 2008 and 2009, when the field of ratings seemed ripe for upheaval, Becker learned of several planned rating agency... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
government or semigovernment agencies? Collecting and analyzing these data may be useful in the classroom and in understanding the impact that the School has had in this crisis. Peter Jensen (MBA ’79) Morgan Hill, CA Financial Crisis... View Details
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
automatically must be delegated to the damage control specialists. Plans and actions should always focus on others' hearts as much or more than their minds. If you are at a middle or low level in an organization and see how a View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
responsibility which goes with that.” The purpose of business, Gay said, was to make “a decent profit decently.” In the 111 years since then, many HBS alumni have taken the school’s emphasis on social View Details
- April 2024
- Teaching Note
Ferrari: Shifting to Carbon Neutrality
By: Raffaella Sadun
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-446. A sports car manufacturer commits to carbon neutrality and to electrifying a large part of its car fleet. View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
Working PapersManaging Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Abstract To date, little research has been done on managing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Career Services Shifts into High Gear
Many members of the Class of 2008 were just settling into new jobs as reverberations from the financial crisis were felt around the world. While employment figures for the class remain strong, MBA Career Services has continued its support... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
levies on pollution, which is by definition an indicator of waste and inefficiency. Gore, who has long argued that carbon dioxide emissions contribute to global warming, said that solving the environmental crisis represents “the greatest... View Details