Tag: Great Recession

  • Nation & World

    When will hot housing market finally start to cool?

    A real estate investment expert at Harvard Business School explains what’s happening and why.

    7 minutes
    new home construction site in Northbrook, Ill.,
  • Nation & World

    A warning for academia in study of Great Recession-era hiring

    Diversity efforts suffer in times of crisis, sociologists find, noting possible parallels amid pandemic.

    4 minutes
    Frank Dobbin and Kwan Woo Kim.
  • Nation & World

    Business leaders see U.S. unprepared for economic downturn

    New research from HBS faculty on the state of U.S. competitiveness finds that the business community may hold the key to dismantling a dysfunctional political system that threatens the nation’s economic outlook.

    10 minutes
    Illustration of stock market and Capitol.
  • Nation & World

    Superstar teachers

    As leaders in government and business search for ways to strengthen the U.S. recovery, new research from faculty at Harvard and Columbia indicates that elementary school teachers have an impact on how much their students earn as adults and, by extension, on the nation’s economy.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Q&A with Dan Shore

    Harvard the University’s latest annual report reflects the effects of difficult strategic choices made during tumultuous economic times. The results are encouraging, but Chief Financial Officer Dan Shore says that Harvard will need to continue managing its expenses cautiously as it works through the lingering ramifications of the Great Recession.

    6 minutes