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- 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
- 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.... View Details
Keywords: 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.
- 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
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Decision Making; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Business Cycles; Digital Platforms; Emerging Markets; Market Timing; Expansion; Diversification; Valuation; Value Creation; Investment Funds; Initial Public Offering; Price; Price Bubble; Negotiation Offer; Financial Liquidity; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; South America; Brazil; Sao Paulo; United States
Kluender, Raymond, Emanuele Colonnelli, Sabrina T. Howell, and Karina Souza. "Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?" Harvard Business School Case 825-047, August 2024. (Revised November 2024.)
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
1977. Here, he downplays the significance of that work, and his success in doing it: An early advocate for commercial indexing, Grantham has also identified market bubbles and investment trends with remarkable accuracy, predicting the... View Details
- 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
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
I write about that as a metaphor for what I think is happening as a political cohort of my generation, which is that there has been a break, and it's still sort of bubbling up. It's still coming into being, but I think the political... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: 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... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Machiels recalls. "The Internet bubble had just burst, but we were still able to secure a funding commitment. Unfortunately at the same time I started to realize that the technology was always going to be fundamentally unreliable and... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
conditions suffered and some local Emirati felt like they lost aspects of their cultural identity. Growth was rapid, infrastructure was weak, and the real estate bubble grew as the financial crisis loomed. To produce economic, social, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
of a start-up wasn’t for them, but one key person stayed,” Machiels recalls. “The Internet bubble had just burst, but we were still able to secure a funding commitment. Unfortunately at the same time I started to realize that the... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: 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... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
number of massive—and massively leveraged—firms, ranging from Bear Stearns to Citigroup to AIG, played a central role in driving both the bubble and the eventual collapse. And because they were so large and strategically positioned in the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
lower-than-anticipated pricing of Square’s IPO, and the implied valuation, had left investors and market observers wondering if this was an indication of a valuation bubble or a shift in the market. The case provides an overview of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne