Bubbles - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality; Real Estate

01 Dec 2004
News

Boom Times Ahead

Dent: a track record of being right on the money. Photo courtesy Harry Dent For investors, 2005 is going to be a very good year, and several more will follow, stock market guru Harry Dent (MBA ’79) claims in his new book, The Next Great 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

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

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01 Feb 2000
News

He Begs to Differentiate

three times the placing price. You had this financial bubble but it doesn't alter the fact that the underlying commercial activity - the way we live, the way we travel, the way we communicate - fundamentally changed as a result of 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

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference; Howard; Naylor; Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

01 Mar 2016
First Look

March 1, 2016

small enough to avoid extortion. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50675 Extrapolation and Bubbles By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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T. J. Dermot Dunphy | Baker Library

potential given the right management. The company, Sealed Air, invented the now popular plastic bubble wrap, but the founders weren’t sure how to market it. Dermot took over the company and in the process essentially invented the... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Growing Home

and began the modern era in Japan. “This is the only city in Japan where the price of land has not gone up since the bubble burst. But now, gradually, Mito has seen an upward trend, with more and more people wanting to invest in the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Hank Willis Thomas Ernest and Ruth 2015 | About

identity, history, and popular culture. He received his BFA in Photography and Africana Studies from New York University and his MFA/MA in Photography and Visual Criticism from the California College of Arts. Ernest and Ruth is based on the iconic shape of a cartoon... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Déjà Vu All Over Again

crises shares defining features of a speculative bubble followed by a crash, but they emerged in idiosyncratic ways. I’m not sure you can ever figure out a tried-and-true pattern,” says Caitlin Anderson, the exhibit’s curator and a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)

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 investment banking group after graduation. However, the bubble burst got me,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Collection Highlights | Baker Library

Collection Highlights R.G. Dun & Co. Credit Report Volumes Credit reports created by America's first commercial reporting agency. This collection is an invaluable resource for understanding the business, social, and cultural world of 19th-century America. South Sea... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

It’s a Small World

positive paeans to things such as the joys of popping the bubbles in packing wrap, the cool side of the pillow, the aroma outside bakeries, and high-fiving babies earned him 100,000 daily readers who welcomed his optimism and to whose... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Profile

Pasha Nahass

bubble Seeking more opportunity, Pasha turned to the MBA. “I was lacking business skills in strategy, finance, and accounting. I wanted a formal exposure to those areas, which would be especially valuable if I wanted to start my own... View Details

Keywords: Tech

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

use their particular brand of shampoo after decades of investment in product development and marketing. The dot-com bubble brought practices, ambitions, and goals to China that are here to stay— Nicholas Howson, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Portrait Project

Rick Ambrust

be a person who treats my life like a fine piece of china, protected in bubble wrap and rarely used. My life is precious, but it is more than that. So I'll eschew a protective stance. To live life fearlessly. (Now, where's my... View Details

September 2005 (Revised May 2007)
Case

OuterLink Corporation (A)

By: Josh Lerner and Brenda Chia

Zero Stage Capital is addressing a troubled investment in OuterLink Corp., which has a capital deficit of $30 million and was written off by all but one of its investors as a victim of the technology bubble. The venture organization must decide whether to shutter the... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Decisions; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Price Bubble; Investment; Financial Services Industry