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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
tough times for New York banking beginning more than a decade ago - with all the layoffs and mergers - this kind of mentoring stopped happening. I was very fortunate to have had it. How would you describe the value of Internet stocks today? Clearly a bubble, but View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
flotation, or DAF,” he explains. “We inject microbubbles into the bottom of sap tanks. Any yeast, bacteria, or non-water-soluble particles adhere to the bubbles and float to the top to be skimmed off. Just the good stuff remains.” DAF had... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
the same time, Rich Kinder, to whom I reported indirectly through my boss (and I greatly respected), decided to leave and was infamously replaced. I chose to leave Enron instead. —Bob Herlin (MBA 1982) Clean Conscience I worked at a self-service car wash named Magic... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
and let the ideas bubble up. We did find one rare kind of time pressure that does seem to help creativity: that of “being on a mission,” concentrating on a truly important problem for a defined period of time. Fear Forces Breakthroughs.... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
bubble has burst: no longer obsessed with the need for larger-than-life leaders and their grand strategies, we can now focus on a quieter, more evolutionary approach to change, one that relies on employee motivation instead of directives... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
structure, and are more vulnerable to swings in commodity markets and government policies. Set in December 2023, the case finds TPG considering the future for Monolith, a Rise Climate portfolio company with significant impact potential but an uncertain business model.... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
of 2020? Santana: It's very hard to tell because culture shifts very quickly, but I think what you can see from this year's past ads is that there were a couple of very clear themes that bubbled up. One was this rise of the machine, and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
sparked by urbanites fleeing the pandemic, but most of them have returned to their original cities and yet housing prices are still climbing across the country. What’s going on? Are we in another housing bubble like in 2008-09? Nori... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
William Wrigley III
Throughout William III’s early years at the family firm, Wrigley’s gum enjoyed a substantial lead in its industry. However, by the time he assumed the presidency in 1961, sugarless gum, and later bubble gum, were chipping away at that... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
When did you and your cofounder come up with the idea for Bubble (Bubble is a visual programming tool that empowers anyone to build software, apps, and websites without writing any code)? Josh Haas, my cofounder, came up with the idea... View Details
- Web
Sponsors | New Venture Competition
Sponsors The New Venture Competition thanks its sponsors for their tremendous support which enables participants to access expert resources, test their ideas, and gain real-world feedback throughout the process. Amazon Web Services All Stage View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Wizard to the Rescue
Just how much is the famous HBS brand worth? Quite a lot, it seems, from the humorous turn of events in this year’s HBS Show, The Wizard of Hawes. When Dean Clark takes HBS public, savvy students become overnight billionaires. But the good times don’t roll for long... View Details
- Web
European Economic History & Philosophy | Baker Library
South Sea Bubble - Bancroft Collection The foundation of the South Sea Bubble Collection held in Baker Library. It consists of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, Parliamentary acts, engravings, broadsides,... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)
Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development I graduated from Harvard Business School at the tail end of the dot-com bubble and was fortunate to join Goldman Sach’s high-tech... View Details
- December 1991
- Article
Intrinsic Bubbles: The Case of Stock Prices
By: Kenneth A. Froot and M. Obstfeld
Keywords: Rational Expectations; Equities; Fundamentals; Behavioral Finance; Price Bubble; Stocks; Information; Asset Pricing
Froot, Kenneth A., and M. Obstfeld. "Intrinsic Bubbles: The Case of Stock Prices." American Economic Review 81, no. 5 (December 1991): 1189–1214. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 3091, March 1992. Reprinted in Speculation and Financial Markets, edited by M. Taylor and L. Gallagher. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.)
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Condo Mania
Resorts Worldwide, in part by building on his acquisition of the Sheraton and Westin chains. He left Starwood in 2005; when the real-estate bubble burst, he saw new opportunities. Now, all across overbuilt America, “we are going to be... View Details
- April 2009 (Revised December 2015)
- Case
Dot.com: Online Pet Retailing
By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
From 1995 to 1999, the U.S. experienced a period of tremendous growth in its information technology (IT) sector. The IT industry, although it accounted for less than 10% of the U.S. economy's total output, contributed disproportionately to economic growth. One market... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Price Bubble; Growth and Development Strategy; Failure; Competitive Strategy; Online Technology; Retail Industry
Nicholas, Tom, and David Chen. "Dot.com: Online Pet Retailing." Harvard Business School Case 809-117, April 2009. (Revised December 2015.)
- Portrait Project
Ian McLean
how easy it was to light a fire with one match- something he previously didn't think was humanly possible. I want to make my children laugh when I teach them how to blow underwater bubbles in the pool. To make work colleagues laugh when... View Details