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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the financial crisis to the “‘collision of a collapsing...
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- 2005
- Article
Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion
By: Juan Alcacer, Heather Berry and Wilbur Chung
While firms balance exploitation and exploration to maximize profits, specifics of how firms pursue this balance are scarce. We focus on how firms increase their exploration after obtaining greater capabilities and experience via sequential international expansion....
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Price Bubble;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Industry Growth;
Research and Development;
Profit;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Disruptive Innovation;
Five Forces Framework;
SWOT Analysis;
Duopoly and Oligopoly;
Manufacturing Industry;
Japan;
United States
Alcacer, Juan, Heather Berry, and Wilbur Chung. "Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2005): D1–D6.
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
likely contributed to the great recession by inflating the housing and credit bubbles in 2005-2007. But when it comes to sovereign risk, they are getting it right. Across the world, there are many serious threats to the long-term ability...
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by Staff
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
companies in Beijing alone. Is there an investment bubble in China? Yes, so our job is to manage, as best we can, through the bubbles. Today in China, there is simply too much investment in young Internet companies, in particular, most of...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
investing since the turn of the century. A factor that makes me optimistic about this market is that stock prices on the whole do not seem as clearly disengaged from fundamentals as they did in 1999, when the Dow reached 10,000 for the first time. Then there was a...
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by Jim Aisner
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
urban development at the national level and in three cities in a single Chinese region. The study reveals that the initial liberalization of land was reversed after China's first contemporary real estate bubble in the early 1990s and that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
begin to detect a pattern. Serious poker players strive to disguise their tells with sunglasses or use eye drops so that their pupils don't dilate as they take in a spectacular hand, but it's not easy to control the emotions that bubble...
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by Michael Wheeler
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
have important benefits in workplace settings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55598 Diagnostic Bubbles By: Bordalo, Pedro, Nicola Gennaioli, Spencer Yongwook Kwon, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract— We...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
downtime created by the collapse of the Internet bubble gave rise to a host of new applications that we now collectively know as Web 2.0. Technologies and materials left unused due to the collapse of one industry can be creatively...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
game, right? I believe they can. People in the industry must be dynamic and pay attention to what’s happening around them. I’m a learner by nature, so if I’m a company, I’d want to hear from retail investors or any new cohort beginning to View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity. Tracking land reforms and urban development nationally and in three cities in one Chinese region, the study reveals that the initial liberalization of land was reversed after...
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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
rainbow everyone sees out there." Now, of course, the economic bubble has burst, the "easy money" is gone, and managers are worrying about how to stay competitive in the new world economy that has emerged. It's time, once...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
experience for Military.com after the tech bubble burst. He eventually had to lay off most of his staff, but he insists that the experience turned him into a much better leader. He and Dwane turned Military.com around and sold it to...
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- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
Effects, and Investment Strategy Willy ShihHarvard Business School Note 611-082 This technical note discusses scale economies and direct and indirect network effects in the context of building better business models. Some of the great business disasters of the dot-com...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
advantage, but as the bursting of the dot-com bubble has shown, that supposed edge isn't all that it's cracked up to be. The case for letting a competitor move first into a new market can be stronger when you play David to a rival's...
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by David Stauffer
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
investing soared from under $10 billion in the mid-1990s to over $100 billion in 2000, before plunging back to earth after the tech bubble burst. Since then, annual venture investing has hovered in the range of $15 billion to $20 billion....
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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
environment. Teresa Amabile Over the past decade, nothing has had a more profound impact on business management than information technology. Ten years ago, many of us in business, academia, and government were wondering where it was all going. The tech View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
the trouble began in Silicon Valley and spread from there. Everybody was going to get rich! And that created a tone for much of corporate America throughout the 1990s. When that bubble burst, we suddenly discovered a lot had been hidden...
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Garry Emmons
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
that created a tone for much of corporate America throughout the 1990s. When that bubble burst, we suddenly discovered a lot had been hidden by the fact that everybody was doing well—nobody was being critical of what was transpiring. The...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Rytis Vitkauskas (MBA 2008) Target Global Leaving the Party Early Over the course of 20 years in venture capital, there are many that got away (Twitter, Capital IQ, Adaptive Insights, and The RealReal, to name a few). However, one repeatedly View Details