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- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
Effects, and Investment Strategy Willy ShihHarvard Business School Note 611-082 This technical note discusses scale economies and direct and indirect network effects in the context of building better business models. Some of the great business disasters of the dot-com...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
advantage, but as the bursting of the dot-com bubble has shown, that supposed edge isn't all that it's cracked up to be. The case for letting a competitor move first into a new market can be stronger when you play David to a rival's...
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by David Stauffer
- Profile
Michael Maples
just before the dot.com bubble burst, he had to maneuver the startup through the meltdown and subsequent NASDAQ crash “and it took a lot out of me.” “Startups are impossible and it’s somewhat advantageous to be young...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the financial crisis to the “‘collision of a collapsing...
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- 2005
- Article
Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion
By: Juan Alcacer, Heather Berry and Wilbur Chung
While firms balance exploitation and exploration to maximize profits, specifics of how firms pursue this balance are scarce. We focus on how firms increase their exploration after obtaining greater capabilities and experience via sequential international expansion....
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Price Bubble;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Industry Growth;
Research and Development;
Profit;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Disruptive Innovation;
Five Forces Framework;
SWOT Analysis;
Duopoly and Oligopoly;
Manufacturing Industry;
Japan;
United States
Alcacer, Juan, Heather Berry, and Wilbur Chung. "Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2005): D1–D6.
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
investing soared from under $10 billion in the mid-1990s to over $100 billion in 2000, before plunging back to earth after the tech bubble burst. Since then, annual venture investing has hovered in the range of $15 billion to $20 billion....
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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
environment. Teresa Amabile Over the past decade, nothing has had a more profound impact on business management than information technology. Ten years ago, many of us in business, academia, and government were wondering where it was all going. The tech View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
the trouble began in Silicon Valley and spread from there. Everybody was going to get rich! And that created a tone for much of corporate America throughout the 1990s. When that bubble burst, we suddenly discovered a lot had been hidden...
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Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
first-time investors.” “These stocks are likely to fall in value, which is not a great recipe for some of these excited, first-time investors.” Meme stocks are reminiscent of past price bubbles in asset markets, Cohen observes. “In the...
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- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
thing I'd add. I picked up 3,000 hitchhikers, which might surprise people. I just didn't want to be in a bubble. I think a lot of times a car can create kind of a bubble effect, where you're disconnected. And I really wanted to get to...
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- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
have been others since, not as high profile, but some of them piercing the filter bubbles in the West. And I think the more that that happens, the better, obviously. The more awareness that we have that people are getting arrested, still,...
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- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
have important benefits in workplace settings. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55598 Diagnostic Bubbles By: Bordalo, Pedro, Nicola Gennaioli, Spencer Yongwook Kwon, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract— We...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
that created a tone for much of corporate America throughout the 1990s. When that bubble burst, we suddenly discovered a lot had been hidden by the fact that everybody was doing well—nobody was being critical of what was transpiring. The...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Rytis Vitkauskas (MBA 2008) Target Global Leaving the Party Early Over the course of 20 years in venture capital, there are many that got away (Twitter, Capital IQ, Adaptive Insights, and The RealReal, to name a few). However, one repeatedly View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
I write about that as a metaphor for what I think is happening as a political cohort of my generation, which is that there has been a break, and it's still sort of bubbling up. It's still coming into being, but I think the political...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
rainbow everyone sees out there." Now, of course, the economic bubble has burst, the "easy money" is gone, and managers are worrying about how to stay competitive in the new world economy that has emerged. It's time, once...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
experience for Military.com after the tech bubble burst. He eventually had to lay off most of his staff, but he insists that the experience turned him into a much better leader. He and Dwane turned Military.com around and sold it to...
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- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Machiels recalls. "The Internet bubble had just burst, but we were still able to secure a funding commitment. Unfortunately at the same time I started to realize that the technology was always going to be fundamentally unreliable and...
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- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
conditions suffered and some local Emirati felt like they lost aspects of their cultural identity. Growth was rapid, infrastructure was weak, and the real estate bubble grew as the financial crisis loomed. To produce economic, social, and...
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Sean Silverthorne