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- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 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
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- 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
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
investing soared from under $10 billion in the mid-1990s to over $100 billion in 2000, before plunging back to earth after the tech bubble burst. Since then, annual venture investing has hovered in the range of $15 billion to $20 billion.... 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 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
I stayed in a hotel until the house was ready for occupancy. But then as the security situation deteriorated, I made a decision not to live in the Green Zone. I didn’t want to be associated with the kind of bubble environment that emerged... 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
experiences over things. That appeal is broad-based.” Don’t break out the bubbly when a change in business policy results in an increase in your prestige. Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley and her colleague discovered that “unearned... View Details
- 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
- 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