“Business Leadership in Economic Downturns: Layoffs and their Alternatives”

Date: 

Tuesday, September 29, 2015, 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Center Shanghai

The Harvard Center Shanghai organized a talk with Research Associate Susan Winterberg from Harvard Business School on September 29, 2015. Ms. Winterberg delivered a talk on “Business Leadership in Economic Downturns: Layoffs and their Alternatives” .

In the presentation, Ms. Winterberg shared research findings on layoffs and reviewed a case of a European multinational company that has developed a new approach to layoffs as a best practice example. Then, she provided insights on how, for short term financial problems like recessions, alternative strategies to layoffs can be used to position a company to come out ahead of their competition once the economic downturn ends.