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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
"I'm making this decision on principle, just to see how it feels." ©The New Yorker Collection 2003 Leo Cullum from Cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Another bubble is brewing. Only this time it is a regulation bubble. As agencies and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
My Pandemic Year
just silence. No bubbling energy before the start of class, no chit-chat to catch up on the weekend’s gossip, no plans for the next travel destination. Everything that marked the daily hustle and bustle of the MBA experience was gone.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
one of my last and most enjoyable flights. He was downright bubbly as we put on an impromptu air show over an Adirondack lake. Yet another had pages of combat time; he wrote my letter of recommendation for HBS. Those losses and more since... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
housing bubble and a new, but untested, financial system,” one that has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that nobody really understood. If, like me, you’re still trying to understand how we got here and what’s to be done, the... 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 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
2000, Sealed Air’s sales had reached $3 billion worldwide. When Dunphy arrived at the firm, its signature product, familiarly known as Bubble Wrap but trademarked as AirCap, consisted of a flexible, clear plastic sheet containing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
very senior policymaker, “we must wait for a widespread panic to solve the political obstacles that are preventing us from acting.” I’m also often asked whether we’ve learned our lesson. To which I can confidently answer: Of course not. We’ve lived through a series of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
lawn, sell it, and walk away.’ As the housing bubble burst, those exit doors were closed,” he explained. “All of a sudden, we started to see record numbers of delinquencies, defaults, and foreclosures. The question was, who bore that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Chili recipes
Cover and bring to a boil. As soon as it starts boiling, remove the lid and take it down to medium heat, so it just remains bubbly with the cover off. Chop up some fresh basil and throw it in along with a bag of frozen sweet corn (tastes... 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
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Inner-City Advantage
African-American Student Union. Growing opportunities and competitive advantages have made the inner city a hot spot for investors, particularly developers. “Real estate is a $24 trillion industry — there’s no bubble there,” said Yvonne... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
fundamental allocation exercise.” Bubble on the horizon? All that cash pouring into commercial real estate since the tech wreck has fueled a dramatic run-up in prices for prime properties. “Prices are at levels I never would have guessed... 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
- 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... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
all-time low," wrote BusinessWeek, "his U.S. experience [worked to his advantage]. He argues against the closed world of the keiretsu." Makihara had a full agenda when he took office. "Much of Japan's growth in the past decade had been based on a View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
in little, closed-information bubbles and echo chambers. They would be open to things that were true, or at least more true, if only they were exposed to them. That’s the easier kind of problem to solve. The harder problem is when people... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
(and hugely leveraged) firms played a pivotal role in causing the crisis, inflating the bubble on the way up and driving the panic on the way down. They were also the undeserving beneficiaries of hundreds of billions in federal bailout... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 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