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Mastering management: managing in a downturn

Managing in a downturn

Interactive graphic: Recessions dating back to the first world war

Tom Griggs, Cleve Jones, Keith Fray

Published: January 23 2009 10:56 | Last updated: April 30 2009 16:46

In the midst of an economic downturn, there is a tendency by some to think that things have never been so bad and that extraordinary new approaches are needed. But is this true? The current downturn is not the only economic crisis that most managers will face during their careers. Nor is it the first downturn that business school scholars have studied.

This interactive graphic details many of the recessions that have hit countries around the world dating back to the end of the first world war.

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