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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.)
- 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
- 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
- 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.)
- 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
- 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 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
FairMarket, the mother of three was taking the summer off to spend time with her family and see "what bubbles up." As to the future, Rudden anticipates heading another high-tech company: "Technology draws a great group of people who want... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
classmates who had once been in the majority were now minority students, getting picked on by their Caucasian classmates. Shockingly, about 40 percent of Native American freshmen dropped out within the first two weeks. Essentially, the reservation system had been a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
meaningful, they are by definition hard.” Weeks has led Corning through some of the brightest and darkest times in the company’s 163-year history. After investing heavily in fiber optics, Corning’s stock plummeted when the telecommunications 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
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
researchers, practitioners, and the public. Greenwood notes that “on the website you can click on a country and immediately see the probability that a given sector within that country is currently experiencing a bubble . ” For users... View Details
- 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