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- 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 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
we are about to do so. The Dodd-Frank Act has its good points, but it will not be adequately implemented. Many in Congress are already trying to eliminate the new regulations. Bubbles will arise again; there may already be one in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
into public stock offerings capitalizing on the boom, only to experience financial heartache when the bubble burst. Sound like the Internet revolution of the 1990s? Try the radio revolution of the 1920s. In a presentation to alumni at a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by... 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
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
who began using that dictum thirty years ago as one of his fundamental principles at Sealed Air Corporation. Dunphy turned the fledgling New Jersey-based company that initially made Bubble Wrap into the world's largest producer of... 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 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
act even though he had plenty of levers he could have pulled that didn’t have to do with changing interest rates. He could have raised margin requirements, for example. But instead, he came up with the ridiculously lame idea that bubbles... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Whistleblower,” tells the story of Sherry Hunt, Citibank, and the frauds that caused the Great Recession. Hunt started at Citi as a mortgage quality control officer in 2004, just as the housing bubble was swelling up. She saw the company... 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 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 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
- 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 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 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
—Aslaug Magnúsdóttir (MBA 2000), founder, Moda Operandi "In 2013, the most graduating HBS MBAs since the bubble year of 2000 took jobs in the tech and telecom industries, while the fewest since 2003 (the beginning of a four-year bull... 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 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
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
way of stating the VC mantra, “I’d rather back an A team with a B plan than a B team with an A plan.” A plan is a basis for change, and thus navigating and persevering through that change is where the value is created. Navigating the crash of the internet 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
- 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