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- 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
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
implications in a variety of contexts. "The fact that the world is connected through spanning ties has huge effects on the spread of all manner of things ranging from information about positions among job searchers to the potentially rapid spread of communicable... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
Kewalramani: My tips for harmony: Do things every day that make your heart sing. Take random Wednesdays off. I go to Target, I go to the bank, I go to get my nails done. And it is super fun. Random Wednesdays are key. DM: The answers—from View Details
- June 2001 (Revised December 2006)
- Case
Role of Capital Market Intermediaries in the Dot-Com Crash of 2000, The
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Gillian D Elcock
Set in the context of the rise and fall of the Internet stocks in the United States. View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Price Bubble; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
Palepu, Krishna G., and Gillian D Elcock. "Role of Capital Market Intermediaries in the Dot-Com Crash of 2000, The." Harvard Business School Case 101-110, June 2001. (Revised December 2006.)
- 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
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
compete but few made money. "It's not just in shipping," he says. But in shipping and real estate, where feedback is delayed, he concludes, "learning is slow." Greenwood and Hanson were drawn to maritime studies after teaching cases on the shipping industry. "We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
partners and two other longtime colleagues talked through a list of aspirations and values that bubbled to the surface, like “curiosity,” “collaboration,” “fun,” and “honesty”—general qualities made granular through frank talk and close... View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
market bubbles and frothy credit markets—and how those are different from equity market froth. Layne: How so? Greenwood: Frothy stock markets happen when people get excited about companies and are very focused on the potential upside.... View Details
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Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen - Coin and Conscience
ill-fated Mississippi Company. He merged this huge stock company with the royal bank and took over the public debt and administration of revenue. In 1720, a rash of speculation in land swept France, setting off frenzied selling at high profits. When the 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
- Web
Creating the Modern Financial System - Course Catalog
companies). Still others focus on the behavior of financial actors and groups, particularly in the context of financial bubbles and crashes. Because the course highlights the origins of financial markets and instruments as well as the... View Details
- 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
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
and proactivity. Download the paper: http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/grantginohofmann_amj_2011.pdf Working PapersFinancing Risk and Bubbles of Innovation Authors:Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract :... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
According to experts at the conference session titled "From Bubble to Recession: The Current State of the Venture Capital Industry," none of the answers are simple, but a sense of perspective remains one highly valuable... View Details
- July 1989 (Revised May 2004)
- Case
Colonial Homes
By: David E. Bell
Colonial Homes supplies a complete raw materials package to build entire homes. The price of the package is guaranteed at the signing of the sales contract, while delivery (and payment) are not effected for up to six months. In an effort to reduce its exposure to... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Contracts; Price; Price Bubble; Fluctuation; Monopoly; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Accommodations Industry; Real Estate Industry
Bell, David E. "Colonial Homes." Harvard Business School Case 190-008, July 1989. (Revised May 2004.)
- 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
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The People’s Pods
And because the addressable market has gone from that local geography to everyone, the best content, even if it’s in a niche, always rises to the top. HBS: How much money can really be behind this boom? What would a podcasting bubble look... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
how we thought about online opportunities one year after the dot-com bubble burst. In retrospect, many of my thoughts about the internet’s future evolution missed the mark. If you think history repeats itself, then these forecasting... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
bubble on the horizon. As in the United States, the high cost of housing can undermine economic competitiveness as young families move farther and farther out, spending more time and more money on housing. If the reasons behind the... View Details