Bubbles - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

reception room, and a fountain of Bubble Wrap trails behind her. She’s working with the National Gallery to introduce more modernity to the office aesthetic, selecting a few contemporary paintings for the walls of Maximos Mansion. The... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

his knitting and ended up doing quite well in the end. But I think that's where FOMO really hits the business community. So you see this over and over and over again with economic bubbles going back to the dawn of time. So the book really... View Details

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

perfect natural experiment to explore. With the Y2K bubble in the early 2000s, the quota of H1-B visas first increased and then fell sharply, initially expanding and then limiting immigration by skilled workers into the United States.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

agrees, of course. Comparing the simplicity of (especially short-term) responses to the complexity of the pay-for-performance challenge, Ravindra Edirisoorlya went so far as to say that "Current P4P model(s) may lead to another economic View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

by the top artistic and commercial photographers of the day, with a focus on advertising and industrial images. Bubbles, Panics & Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises, 1830s-1930s In 1837, 1873, 1907, and 1929, asset price bubbles... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Happy Monday

revealed two additional findings for the company: First, stepping away from the routine has a way of forcing a new perspective and opening up a space for fresh thinking. Bernard says her best big ideas don’t come to her during back-to-back meetings. They View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

'For Sale' sign on the lawn, I'll sell it, I'll walk away.' As the housing bubble burst, those exit doors were closed," he said. "All of a sudden, we started to see record numbers of delinquencies, defaults, and foreclosures.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

Article

Fly-by-Night Firms and the Market for Product Reviews

By: Gerald R. Faulhaber and Dennis A. Yao

This paper presents a model that permits third-party information provision in a market characterized by information asymmetries and reputation formation. The model is used to examine how the market for information provision affects prices and supply in the primary... View Details

Keywords: Markets; Reputation; SWOT Analysis; Mathematical Methods; Price Bubble; Inflation and Deflation; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Cost; Information; Quality; Price; Competitive Advantage; Information Industry

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14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

their innovation performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51467 Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock prices do... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

question bubbled up the list: Do the panelists worry about the threat of disintermediation? In other words, once consumers and providers find each other, are they likely to cut out the middle man–that is, the platform they used to find... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

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

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

potential of new ideas could be inimical to operating a real business. All fall, the news had been sobering, as the dot-com bubble deflated, paring billions—ultimately trillions—of dollars of stock-market value from the "idea"... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

17 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience

to HBS with her partner Bethany. Enjoying the business school bubble together can also be a bonding experience for couples at HBS and may bring couples closer together. “This is a once in a lifetime experience for both of us,” said Rishon... 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

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

time at worksites and offices, and developing processes for monitoring social media and conducting meaningful employee surveys, Paine suggests. They should also make sure the company has whistleblower hotlines that are closely monitored and keep tabs on what issues are... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

August 2024 (Revised November 2024)
Case

Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?

By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli, Sabrina T. Howell and Karina Souza

In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the unprecedent crypto momentum as a window of... View Details

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06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

first-time investors.” “These stocks are likely to fall in value, which is not a great recipe for some of these excited, first-time investors.” Meme stocks are reminiscent of past price bubbles in asset markets, Cohen observes. “In the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

07 May 2018
News

What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries

thing I'd add. I picked up 3,000 hitchhikers, which might surprise people. I just didn't want to be in a bubble. I think a lot of times a car can create kind of a bubble effect, where you're disconnected. And I really wanted to get to... View Details

17 Dec 2017
News

How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

have been others since, not as high profile, but some of them piercing the filter bubbles in the West. And I think the more that that happens, the better, obviously. The more awareness that we have that people are getting arrested, still,... 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

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports

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