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- 01 Oct 2002
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Books
boardrooms, academia, and the business press to examine their roles in sustaining or promoting worrisome flaws in the process corporations use to fill their top office. — Laura Singleton (MBA '88) HBS Press Books in Brief As the recent View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
uncertainty. Even in the smartest venture firms, failures are more common than successes. This is a difficult concept for governments to accept. France, for example, has a tendency to set up entrepreneurship initiatives and pull out after...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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House of Bread on the Rise
McCANN: Former defense atforney learned the bakery business from scratch. The lessons Sheila McCann (OPM 24, 1996) learned from the surprising failure of her second House of Bread retail bakery turned out to be an essential ingredient in...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments
of employees, entire organizations vanish. The vanishing act cannot be blamed solely on competitive forces. Most organizations that self-destruct experience failure because employees were not committed to the mission and direction of the...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
between executives and workers; the dangers in the unsustainable and still growing levels of domestic and international debt; the dangers of securitization of mortgages; and the potential problems that could result from a financial View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
some companies fail. But after twenty years I still haven't learned to enjoy failure and defeat. Proudest of Building Sierra into a firm that has spawned some really great companies, attracted very talented general partners, and now has...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
his subsequent investigation of the conditions in East Harlem that led young people to be involved in drug-selling and criminal activity. Besides the trial itself, the book is the story of the failures in NYCHA housing projects, the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
markets were overextended, but my earlier failure had laid the groundwork for a very successful next chapter of my career. Catherine Bouvier D'Yvoire (MBA 1982), financial advisor to governments, Paris, France After years of working...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
new information technology and summarized the "root causes" of unsuccessful implementation. "The good news," Tobkin stated, "is that the problems are not in the technology. Most of the causes of failure have to do with management."...
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Daniel Penrice
- 30 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck
Actually, I need to help them have experiences where they fail. Because only if they experience failure can they experience success. And I think a lot of us in my generation think that, oh, well, I just have to be sure that they always...
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- 16 May 2017
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Facing the Board
BlackRock. David Baum (MBA 1996), an entrepreneur and early-stage venture capitalist, pointed out that when Larry Fink cofounded BlackRock, he had just lost $100 million at First Boston. His failure was the foundation upon which BlackRock...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Books
Business School Press) Risk taking is an integral building block in developing organizational learning. IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr., understood the value of creating an environment in which errors -- and even failures -- are...
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Amy E. Dean
- 01 Mar 2010
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The Meaning of Ramadi
that failure is an inevitable and necessary part of life. It happens whether you like it or not — sometimes as a result of your own (or someone else’s) error in judgment and sometimes simply because time and circumstance had a vote. Once...
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- 24 Oct 2013
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Engineering a More Secure World
Purdue University in the early 1970s, Harris saw lots of classmates veer down the wrong path. Seeing the high failure rate among minority students, he joined a campus group of black engineers, where, he says, "Our entire objective was to...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups
Doriot HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION As a young man, Georges Doriot dreamed of running a factory, a rare aspirational failure in his long, storied career. Rather, he ended up teaching thousands of HBS students how they should run...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
John Gillespie (right) and David Zweig (MBA ’83) are the authors of Money for Nothing: How the Failure of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions (Free Press, 2010). Gillespie was an investment banker for...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
success and failure include lessons on funding, team development, strategy, performance, and allocation. Some large funds do not survive their founders, and large sums are reallocated to a broader selection of managers. Seides outlines...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel
demoralizing to have one customer after the next lecture you about your employer’s failures and your competitors’ strengths. Many customers actually relished the opportunity to stick it to the famous Intel.” Yesterday’s feisty underdog...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization
the conversation for me, and I think our failure is that we haven’t found a business model or a way of hearing them more. RA: Make the center cool and sexy again! I think the challenge that we have is to think about the different kinds of...
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