Dan is Associate Professor of Business and (by courtesy) Sociology at Columbia Business School, where he is also the Co-director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. His research examines how social networks drive social and economic transformation through the analysis of global migration, social movements, organizational innovation, and entrepreneurship. Dan teaches the core MBA Strategy Formulation course, an elective MBA course on Technology Strategy, a PhD seminar on Organizational Theory.
The holiday season and company layoffs go hand in hand. As the holidays draw closer, companies are facing lower consumer confidence and are thus evaluating plans for the 2023 fiscal year. See: 95%...
When they cut costs, the first thing to go is typically labor costs and also advertising and marketing. When that doesn’t look good, then they have to accommodate those expectations by adjusting the workforces.