Bubble - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

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

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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

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

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation

24 May 2023
News

Balancing Acts

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: What does "work-life balance" mean in today's post-pandemic world? Associate editor Julia Hanna asks this year's five recipients of HBS's Alumni Achievement Award to describe how they think... View Details

Keywords: work-life balance; happiness; family

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

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

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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

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

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking

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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

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

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Educators

Purchase

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

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Management

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T. J. Dermot Dunphy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Transcript (PDF) T. J. Dermot Dunphy, HBS 1956, was recruited by HBS friends Bill Donaldson, Dan Lufkin, and Richard Jenrette, founders of DLJ, to run a business they thought had potential given the right management. The company, Sealed Air, invented the now popular... 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

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Construction; Real Estate

07 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Innovation in Asia

the country on Apple's iPod and plasma TVs. The great brain drain from India in the 1990s was stemmed after the dot-com bubble burst at the end of the last century, Rath said. Much of that talent has now returned to India and is being... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

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

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

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