Filter Results
:
(54)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(54)
- News (12)
- Research (34)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (9)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(54)
- News (12)
- Research (34)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (9)
←
Page 3 of
54
Results
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
few exceptions, true. In scores of first-person accounts and on social media, people are reporting they are working harder than they did pre-COVID. This makes perfect sense; as layoffs and furloughs skyrocket, employees live in fear of...
View Details
Keywords:
All Industries
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
cuts in all parts of the business. They face choices in whether to employ layoffs or furloughs (unpaid leaves) for any needed workforce reductions, and whether to enact hiring freezes and other cost-saving changes to employee and...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
and error took a toll.” On the detailed level, CEOs “worked on scenario planning and cost-cutting.” Most made retaining staff a priority: “We worked hard to retain all the roles we could. We ended up furloughing some people and switched...
View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
districts. Teacher layoffs were also on the table: The number, initially set at 89, was whittled down to 51; after months of debate and conflict with local teacher unions (there are two in Scranton), 16 teachers would be furloughed in...
View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
need help for the next many months to keep theirs and others’ spirits high so we can keep them for when we recover.” “How to motivate a team that has been furloughed? With our operations totally shut down by the government, we had to View Details
Keywords:
All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
need help for the next many months to keep theirs and others’ spirits high so we can keep them for when we recover.” “How to motivate a team that has been furloughed? With our operations totally shut down by the government, we had to View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
(e.g. rent). Next, reduce fixed costs, starting with salary cuts that commence at the top and the furloughing of all non-essential staff. Finally, reorganize to operate with a permanent lower fixed-cost base. Third, they must protect the...
View Details
Keywords:
by Danielle Kost
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to do with spinning up, like, furloughing and rehiring employees. We quickly decided to extend software for free, because we felt if our customers cannot have the planning flexibility they need, they might not be around tomorrow, right? I...
View Details
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
medically at risk or economically threatened, all the layoffs and furloughs that were happening back then. So first just helping getting everyone settled. But then, as we thought of it, it was clear that this was one of the biggest...
View Details
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
industry, because obviously there are asymmetric impacts, in terms of furloughs and whatnot. We have seen the low-wage workers, significant migration across sectors in Covid—so sectors like hospitality and food service, non-durable...
View Details