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22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

Karen Gordon Mills served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as head of the Small Business Administration (SBA) during the height of the Great Recession. “Back then, I thought small businesses were weathering the worst financial crisis... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2020
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Saving Grace

underestimates the scale of the problem because those are only the ones we know about,” Savova says. The situation will be exacerbated by job losses associated with the COVID crisis this year, leading to more than 20 million abandoned... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

What is keeping you awake at night during this global pandemic? Over the past few weeks, we asked 600 CEOs that very question. Their responses were touching and instructive, but also daunting about the challenges leaders face at this... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

01 Sep 2010
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You’ve Been YouTubed

that it should have responded sooner with “Absolutely right, and 4 that (among other things), we are v.sorry and are making it right. Plan 2 use video in training.” Classes tended to divide sharply on whether United’s View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; social media; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2008
News

What Went Wrong?

from securing mortgages to saving for kids’ college tuition and retirement. But the country’s current financial crisis really threw me for a loop. Beginning last spring, with the demise of Bear Stearns, the steady drip, drip, drip of bad... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

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balance and post-retirement strategies. Data and Technology Exploring how AI and tech reshape industries, drive social impact, and equip leaders with skills for responsible innovation. Leadership Leadership insights on team strategy,... View Details

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

crisis without an explosion or a meltdown. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/how-the-other-fukushima-plant-survived/ar/1 July-August 2014 Harvard Business Review The Crisis in Retirement View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2021
News

Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region

organizations, and local towns), garnering unforgettable lessons in crisis leadership, entrepreneurship, and economic revival. Some of their projects are documented in HBS cases written by Takeuchi in collaboration with students—such as... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

making and the culmination of HBS’s yearlong centennial observance, the three-day event was designed to galvanize thinking and action around the 21st century’s transcendent business challenges. What no one expected, but what dominated the event, was the biggest... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

01 Dec 2022
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A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

course developer. As Dean, he led HBS through some of the most momentous and challenging times in its history. In 2008, as the global economic crisis unfolded, Light acted swiftly to strengthen the School’s financial structure and... View Details

Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia

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

May 1992 (Revised May 1993)
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Jan Carlzon: CEO at SAS (B)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Summarizes Carlzon's new focus externally on building alliances and acquiring travel service companies. Describes the financial problems resulting from the recession and the Gulf War crisis. Designed as an in-class handout to highlight the long-term management... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Financial Crisis; Problems and Challenges; Planning; Leadership; Alliances; Strategy; Air Transportation Industry

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30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

June 12, 2019
Article

Business as Usual Will Not Save the Planet

By: Mark R. Kramer, Rishi Agarwal and Aditi Srivinas

The United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) were explicitly designed to engage the private sector in addressing the world’s most pressing challenges. Four years into the UN’s 15-year timeline, the question is whether companies are advancing serious... View Details

Keywords: Sustainable Development; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Planning

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01 Dec 2008
News

NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

strategy, offered advice on strategic planning. The summit took place against the backdrop of a mounting financial crisis on Wall Street and a deteriorating economy, both of which heightened concern about expected declines in giving,... View Details

November 1996
Case

Del Webb Corporation (C), The

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff

Dion and the other Del Webb directors were open to having Industrial Equity Pacific (IEP) and Webcott Holdings representation on the board. The IEP representative was perceived as reserved and lacking in sophistication. Cotter of Webcott, however, struck the directors... View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management; Management Succession; Strategic Planning; Governing and Advisory Boards; Horizontal Integration; Conflict Management

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10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

think about which college to attend,” Luca says. Rolling Stone has been responsible for three long-form articles about campus scandals in the past decade, including the Dartmouth incident; a 2006 case at Duke University in which three... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

01 Sep 2010
News

Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

conveyed than with the task itself; I’ve used that knowledge again and again. What opportunities do you see as the economy emerges from crisis mode? When it comes to technology, we all have the same core desires to do things smarter,... View Details

Keywords: awards; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Space Research and Technology; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2024
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Outside Voices

In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece