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      The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Outcomes and Expectations

      By: Alexander Bartik, Marianne Bertrand, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton
      To explore the impact of COVID on small businesses, we conducted a survey of more than 5,800 small businesses between March 28 and April 4, 2020. Several themes emerged. First, mass layoffs and closures had already occurred—just a few weeks into the crisis. Second, the...  View Details
      Keywords: Covid-19; Stimulus; Cares Act; Health Pandemics; Small Business; Surveys
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      Bartik, Alexander, Marianne Bertrand, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher Stanton. "The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Outcomes and Expectations." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 30 (July 28, 2020).
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Job Loss, Credit and Crime in Colombia

      By: Gaurav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Christian Posso and Jorge Tamayo
      We investigate the effects of job displacement, as a result of mass layoffs, on criminal arrests using a matched employer-employee-crime dataset from Medellín, Colombia. Job displacement leads to immediate and persistent earnings losses and higher probability of arrest...  View Details
      Keywords: Job Displacements; Job Cuts And Outsourcing; Crime And Corruption; Credit; Colombia; Medellín
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      Khanna, Gaurav, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Christian Posso, and Jorge Tamayo. "Job Loss, Credit and Crime in Colombia." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-104, April 2020.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

      By: Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
      We study preferences for government action in response to layoffs resulting from different types of labor-market shocks. We consider the following shocks: technological change, a demand shift, bad management, and three kinds of international outsourcing. Respondents...  View Details
      Keywords: Labor; Markets; System Shocks; Trade; Attitudes; Surveys
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      Di Tella, Rafael, and Dani Rodrik. "Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25705, March 2019.
      • October 2018 (Revised March 2019)
      • Background Note

      Note on Managing Workforce Reductions

      By: Ethan Bernstein and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      Each individual who enters an organization will, at some point, leave. And yet most future leaders spend significantly more effort learning about recruiting than departures, despite the sensitivity and challenges associated with the latter. This note is intended to...  View Details
      Keywords: layoffs; Downsizing; Workforce; Workforce Reductions; Delayering; Human Resources; Employees; Resignation And Termination; Management; Organizations; Reputation
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      Bernstein, Ethan, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Note on Managing Workforce Reductions." Harvard Business School Background Note 419-039, October 2018. (Revised March 2019.)
      • May–June 2018
      • Article

      Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company: Better Approaches to Workforce Transition

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
      Today layoffs have become companies’ default response to the challenges created by advances in technology and global competition. Yet research shows that job cuts rarely help senior leaders achieve their goals. Too often, they’re done for short-term gain, but the cost...  View Details
      Keywords: Job Cuts And Outsourcing; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Employees; Transition; Strategic Planning
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      Sucher, Sandra J., and Shalene Gupta. "Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company: Better Approaches to Workforce Transition." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 3 (May–June 2018): 122–129.
      • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
      • Case

      AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

      By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
      By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that...  View Details
      Keywords: At&t; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Disruption; layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation And Invention; Technological Innovation; Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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      Gross, Daniel P., and William R. Kerr. "AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century." Harvard Business School Case 718-486, January 2018. (Revised May 2018.)
      • October 2016
      • Supplement

      Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (B)

      By: Joshua Margolis, Amram Migdal and Kerry Herman
      The case complements “Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel’s Cellular Market (A),” HBS case number 417-017, which addresses reforms to regulations in Israel’s telecommunications industry initiated and implemented under the leadership of...  View Details
      Keywords: Market Reform; Political Leadership; Industry Regulation; Regulatory Reforms; Economic Sectors; Private Sector; Public Sector; Values And Beliefs; Ethics; Geography; Geopolitical Units; Country; Government And Politics; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Market Design; Market Participation; Duopoly And Oligopoly; Supply And Industry; Industry Structures; Telecommunications Industry; Communications Industry; Public Administration Industry; Israel
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      Margolis, Joshua, Amram Migdal, and Kerry Herman. "Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 417-018, October 2016.
      • September 2016
      • Case

      Truly Human Leadership at Barry-Wehmiller

      By: Dylan Minor and Jan Rivkin
      The chief executive of Barry-Wehmiller, a large maker of industrial equipment, has resolved to run the company via “truly human leadership” in which “success is measured by the way we touch the lives of people.” With unusual people practices and a distinctive strategy,...  View Details
      Keywords: Job Cuts And Outsourcing; Values And Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Employees; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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      Minor, Dylan, and Jan Rivkin. "Truly Human Leadership at Barry-Wehmiller." Harvard Business School Case 717-420, September 2016.
      • December 2015
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      Nokia's Bridge Program (A) & (B)

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
      This teaching note is designed to be used in conjunction with the cases "Nokia's Bridge Program: Redesigning Layoffs (A)," HBS No. 615-013, and "Nokia's Bridge Program: Outcome and Results (B)," HBS No. 615-014. Instructors could also assign "Layoffs: Effects on Key...  View Details
      Keywords: layoffs; Plant Closure; Outplacement; Shared Value; Job Cuts And Outsourcing; Business Exit Or Shutdown
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      Sucher, Sandra J., and Susan J. Winterberg. "Nokia's Bridge Program (A) & (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-114, December 2015.
      • February 2015 (Revised August 2016)
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      Nokia's Bridge Program: Redesigning Layoffs (A)

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
      "Not another Bochum." Nokia Board Chairman Jorma Ollila was clear in the goals he set for the 2011 restructuring that Nokia's new CEO, Stephen Elop, had decided was necessary to address the dramatically changed competitive environment the company faced in smartphones...  View Details
      Keywords: layoffs; Plant Closure; Outplacement; Shared Value; Business Or Company Management; Job Cuts And Outsourcing; Restructuring; Employee Relationship Management; Telecommunications Industry
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      Sucher, Sandra J., and Susan J. Winterberg. "Nokia's Bridge Program: Redesigning Layoffs (A)." Harvard Business School Case 315-002, February 2015. (Revised August 2016.)
      • January 7, 2015
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      The Quest for Better Layoffs

      By: Sandra J. Sucher
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      Sucher, Sandra J. "The Quest for Better Layoffs." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (January 7, 2015).
      • 2014
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      Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company's Deep Smarts

      By: Dorothy A. Leonard, Walter Swap and Garvin Barton
      When highly skilled subject matter experts, engineers, and managers leave their organizations, they take with them years of hard-earned, experience-based knowledge—much of it undocumented and irreplaceable. Organizations can thereby lose a good part of their...  View Details
      Keywords: Knowledge Management
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      Leonard, Dorothy A., Walter Swap, and Garvin Barton. Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company's Deep Smarts. Harvard Business Review Press, 2014.
      • October 2014
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      Honeywell and the Great Recession (A)

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
      CEO Dave Cote spent six years turning around an ailing Honeywell and in 2008 Cote and his team face a new challenge: how to respond to the Great Recession. Cote does not want to give up the gains he made in transforming and unifying Honeywell. With a fall-off in...  View Details
      Keywords: layoffs; Furloughs; Downsizing; Work Sharing; Short Time Work; Recessions; Earnings Forecast; Executive Compensation; Job Cuts And Outsourcing; Cost Management; Executive Compensation; Crisis Management; Financial Crisis; Manufacturing Industry
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      Sucher, Sandra J., and Susan J. Winterberg. "Honeywell and the Great Recession (A)." Harvard Business School Case 315-022, October 2014.
      • September 2014
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      FormPrint Ortho500

      By: Frank V. Cespedes and Alisa Zalosh
      The Senior Vice President of FormPrint's Medical Products business unit is considering issues raised by the upcoming introduction of a new 3D printing system, the Ortho500, which could print custom exoskeletal orthopedic splints, braces, and casts that conformed to a...  View Details
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      Cespedes, Frank V., and Alisa Zalosh. "FormPrint Ortho500." Harvard Business School Brief Case 915-535, September 2014.
      • 2014
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      Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy

      By: Paul B. Brown, Charles F. Kiefer and Leonard A. Schlesinger
      It used to be that if you studied and worked hard, you could be assured of an extremely satisfying career. But in a world of constant layoffs and dying industries, it has become increasingly difficult to "plan" your way to success. So what is the solution? Well, when...  View Details
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      Brown, Paul B., Charles F. Kiefer, and Leonard A. Schlesinger. Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy. New York, NY: AMACOM, 2014.
      • February 2014
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      Furloughs: An Alternative to Layoffs for Economic Downturns

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
      This note describes the practice of employee furloughs (also known as work sharing or short-time work) including their regulatory frameworks in different countries and the business and ethical implications of their use.  View Details
      Keywords: Work Sharing; Furloughs; Temporary Layoff; Short Time Work; Employee Relationship Management; Job Cuts And Outsourcing
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      Sucher, Sandra J., and Susan J. Winterberg. "Furloughs: An Alternative to Layoffs for Economic Downturns." Harvard Business School Background Note 314-097, February 2014.
      • March 2012
      • Background Note

      Managing the Layoff Process: France

      By: Sandra J. Sucher
      This note is an overview of the context for managing layoffs in France. It describes the legal responsibilities of managers in conducting layoffs, recent unemployment trends, and the financial, health, training, job placement, and other benefits that laid-off employees...  View Details
      Keywords: Job Cuts And Outsourcing; Resignation And Termination; Compensation And Benefits; Ethics; Management; Employees; Governance Compliance; France
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      Sucher, Sandra J. "Managing the Layoff Process: France." Harvard Business School Background Note 612-083, March 2012.
      • March 2012
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      Managing the Layoff Process: The United States

      By: Sandra J. Sucher
      This note is an overview of the context for managing layoffs in the United States. It describes the legal responsibilities of managers in conducting layoffs, recent unemployment trends, and the financial, health, training, job placement, and other benefits that...  View Details
      Keywords: Job Cuts And Outsourcing; Resignation And Termination; Compensation And Benefits; Ethics; Management; Employees; Governance Compliance; United States
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      Sucher, Sandra J. "Managing the Layoff Process: The United States." Harvard Business School Background Note 612-067, March 2012.
      • March 2012
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      Managing the Layoff Process: India

      By: Sandra J. Sucher
      This note is an overview of the context for managing layoffs in India. It describes the legal responsibilities of managers in conducting layoffs, recent unemployment trends, and the financial, health, training, job placement, and other benefits that laid-off employees...  View Details
      Keywords: Job Cuts And Outsourcing; Resignation And Termination; Compensation And Benefits; Ethics; Management; Employees; Governance Compliance; India
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      Sucher, Sandra J. "Managing the Layoff Process: India." Harvard Business School Background Note 612-068, March 2012.
      • November 2011 (Revised January 2014)
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      The Impact of Layoffs

      By: Sandra J. Sucher, David Rosales and Elana Green
      In video interviews, employees who have been laid off describe their experiences and the effects that the layoff has had on their careers, families, and personal lives.  View Details
      Keywords: Job Cuts And Outsourcing
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      Sucher, Sandra J., David Rosales, and Elana Green. "The Impact of Layoffs." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 612-702, November 2011. (Revised January 2014.)
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