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- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
where his passion for entrepreneurship was reignited and he founded a software company, Certant, in 1999 after graduation. Shortly thereafter, the dotcom bubble burst and Certant ran out of funding. However, the co-founders and team... View Details
- 19 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book
matter of concern to some, but I would argue that rather than be anxious about it, we should celebrate it and allow a lot of these ideas to bubble up. With some oversight form a coordinating body--of which I know there are a few that have... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
that brought the Internet into millions of homes in the 1990s. Like so many companies, Corning was caught by surprise when the telecommunications bubble burst. Its stock tumbled, from more than $100 to about a dollar per share. “That was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
Venture investing has picked up from the post-dot-bomb era of a few years ago—but does the comeback signal good times ahead or a mini bubble of misguided exuberance? To provoke discussion, HBS professor Bill Sahlman threw down the... View Details
- March 2000
- Background Note
Transfer Pricing
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Discusses use of market prices, negotiated prices, variable costs, dual rate, and full costs for transfer prices. View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
to by assigning overly optimistic ratings to highly complex and opaque mortgage- and asset-backed securities. The high ratings signaled to investors that the financial instruments had little chance of default, but the burst of the real-estate View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
to make what she now regards as one of the most important decisions of her career. "Because of our margin decline in the aftermath of the bubble bursting, we couldn't invest in both the Visor and the Treo. Despite the fact that we had a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
meaningful, they are by definition hard.” Weeks has led Corning through some of the brightest and darkest times in the company’s 163-year history. After investing heavily in fiber optics, Corning’s stock plummeted when the telecommunications View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
consulting couch to the launch pad, denial is ubiquitous. You find it in individuals, in teams, in companies, in industries. Indeed, you find it in entire nations and economies. Look at the invasion of Iraq, or the dot-com bubble of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
symphonic, and elegantly complex.” With high-profile transitions in Cuba, Ukraine, and Iran grabbing headlines—and more bubbling up around the globe—we asked Brunell to answer your questions and briefly break down what it takes to build... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
high-speed Internet service, in 1996. “We beat the telephone companies to market in six of seven regions,” says McMinn. He left to start another company, then returned to Covad in 2000 when the tech bubble burst. That was also when he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
also includes a section about Germany's similar experience with Internet commercialization, as well as contributions from ten industry participants and observers. “Unless fundamental changes are made,” Mills says, “another bubble is a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
marketing during the dot.com bubble are gone, and that's a good thing. The basic idea of incorporating more consumer control in your value proposition for better responsiveness is quite independent from the Internet, actually. This is a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
where his passion for entrepreneurship was reignited and he founded a software company, Certant, in 1999 after graduation. Shortly thereafter, the dotcom bubble burst and Certant ran out of funding. However, the co-founders and team... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
success of the American F-86 to two factors. First, the F-86 had hydraulic controls that allowed it to transition between activities—climbing, banking, and accelerating—more rapidly than the MiG-15. Second, the F-86 had a bubble canopy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
call “extreme extrapolation comfort,” which is the belief that if something happens for a little while, it will happen forever. There were times when we should have known we were approaching the subprime debacle, but when, exactly, the View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
innovation going on. The fact that the Internet bubble burst should not make us swing all the way over to say that nothing new is happening, or nothing new is worth happening." View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising
of almanacs annually. Advertisers took another creative leap with the production of novelty items, the precursors to bubble gum cards, Cracker Jack Toys, and other souvenir collectibles of the twentieth century. Offshoots of trade cards... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: 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... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler