Comités de crisis, protocolos de crisis, medidas de crisis. Es el nuevo día a día de los líderes de las empresas españolas que, de buenas a primeras, han visto cómo lo que hasta el pasado 15 de marzo era urgente, ese día dejó de serlo. Las prioridades cambiaron en un abrir y cerrar de ojos tras la declaración del estado de alarma en el país. Se impuso la toma de decisiones a toda velocidad; la primera, salvaguardar la salud de los empleados y la continuidad del negocio, en medio de una pandemia que todavía no ha alcanzado su momento crítico y cuya evolución se desconoce.
Five years after the official end of the Great Recession, corporate profits are high, and the stock market is booming. Yet most Americans are not sharing in the recovery. While the top 0.1% of income recipients—which include most of the highest-ranking corporate executives—reap almost all the income gains, good jobs keep disappearing, and new employment opportunities tend to be insecure and underpaid. Corporate profitability is not translating into widespread economic prosperity.
Good news: Harvard Business Review has announced that Bill Lazonick is the 2014 HBR McKinsey Award winner for the best HBR article in 2014 for his brilliant, hard-hitting piece, “Profits Without Prosperity” (September 2014 HBR). Lazonick is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he directs the Center for Industrial Competitiveness.
