crisis management - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

01 Dec 2009
News

Document Assesses Impact of Financial Crisis, Looks Ahead

Annual Report The economic crisis was a catalyst for radical shifts in budget management at HBS, which enabled the School to remain cash flow positive and conclude the year ended June 30, 2009, with a strong... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Comeback Trail

Koehn, and Debora Spar—to weigh in on what advice history can offer as we navigate the current economic crisis. The Devil You Don’t Know Professor David Moss on the danger of treating this economic crisis like its predecessors Righting... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know

of the 1930s, because it’s the economic crisis against which all others are typically compared. Importantly, one of the most striking things about the Depression, according to observers both at the time and since, is that economic... View Details

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

07 Sep 2021
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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

01 Mar 2010
News

Faculty Books

Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture by Laura Alfaro (World Scientific) This casebook has three main topics: the determinants and effects of international capital flows;... View Details

Keywords: Management; Management; Management

November 2007 (Revised April 2008)
Supplement

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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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

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
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Damon Silvers

freshman year at Harvard, where he worked part-time in a student dining hall and took an interest in the workers’ ongoing contract negotiations. When he started wearing a union button to work, “it just changed the relationship I had with everybody,” he recalls. “The... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

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

November 2007 (Revised April 2008)
Supplement

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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By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Risk Management; Crisis Management

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19 Feb 2010
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The MBA Oath Debate

misplaced response to the financial crisis. It assumes that the financial crisis was caused by unethical MBAs gambling with other people’s money,” a point Vermaelen contests. He concludes: “Rather than focusing on pledges, businesses... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training