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  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

Advances in Strategic Management Innovation Policies By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation but has not examined how this... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?

on a wealth of field experience, is an argument for failure—intelligent failure. She defines intelligent failure as having four key attributes: “ it takes place in new territory; the context presents a credible opportunity (in relation to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • July–August 2013
  • Article

Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative

By: Donald L. Laurie and J. Bruce Harreld
The conventional wisdom about how best to pursue growth—launch a slew of initiatives in high-potential areas; appoint some promising young managers to lead them; locate them safely away from the established businesses—is a recipe for failure, according to the authors.... View Details
Keywords: Failure; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Karen Huang, Nicole Abi-Esber, Ryan W. Buell, Laura Huang, and Brian Hall Abstract—People often feel malicious envy, a destructive... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2023
  • Case

Christiana Figueres and the Collaborative Approach to Negotiating Climate Action

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This case study centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to build momentum for, and ultimately pass, the 2015... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership
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  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

legacy labor and health care costs-is seriously incomplete and that GM's share collapsed for many of the same reasons that many of the other highly successful American firms of the 50s, 60s, and 70s were forced from the market, including a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2024
  • Op-Ed

Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago

in design and production with its newest jumbo jet, the 787 Dreamliner. Such frequent, repeated crises point to a deeper issue than isolated engineering mishaps. The underlying cause of these issues is a leadership failure that has... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Air Transportation; Transportation; Aerospace
  • June 2014
  • Case

The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission — Short Film

By: Anette Mikes and Tom Ryder
During a military exercise in August 2000, a state-of-the-art Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, sank in the Barents Sea, triggering global media attention and an international rescue effort.
In addition to Russia's Northern Fleet, two other organizations got... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Groups and Teams; Crisis Management
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  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

of the defective Ford Pinto and the downfall of Bernard Madoff, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond and illustrate how we can become more ethical, bridging the gap between who we are and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

the VC firm risk supporting an entrepreneur with a questionable track record? A recent paper might contain the answer. Entrepreneurs coming off an initial VC-backed failure often see their careers accelerate in their follow-on job, as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

Abstract—Many believe that the recent emphasis on enterprise risk management function is misguided, especially after the failure of sophisticated quantitative risk models during the global financial crisis. The concern is that top-down... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?

rating agencies. High-profile failures of the agencies to predict catastrophes, like the Enron and WorldCom scandals, caused “everyone to wonder, ‘Where were the credit rating agencies?’” Sikochi explains. “Our paper answers the question,... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Novel Risks

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard and Anette Mikes
All organizations practice some form of risk management to identify and assess routine risks in their operations, supply chains, strategy, and external environment. These risk management policies, however, fail in the presence of novelty. Novel risks arise from... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Policy; Failure; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 30 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements

should represent a broad range of potential emergency situations that the organization could plausibly face. Examples include: shooter on site, epidemic, bomb threat, major fire, major external terrorist attack, major economic dislocation, infrastructure View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Managing Firms in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from the Time Use of Indian CEOs

By: Raffaella Sadun
The success or failure of a company is often ascribed to the behavior of its CEO. Yet little is known about what top managers actually do, whether this matters for firm performance, and why it differs across firms. We provide some answers by developing a new survey... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Performance; Outcome or Result; Management Teams; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

http://hbr.org/2014/07/unlock-the-mysteries-of-your-customer-relationships/ar/1 July-August 2014 Harvard Business Review Becoming a First-Class Noticer: How to Spot and Prevent Ethical Failures in Your Organization By: Bazerman, Max... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

difficult) as this, Amabile concludes: Support employees' progress in their work every day. Set clear and meaningful goals for them; provide direct help, versus hindrance; offer adequate resources and time; respond to successes and View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

Ghosh says, if start-ups often manage to secure a good team and good financing, they face dozens of lower-cost competitors and fragmented customer demand.) Funding has the potential to turn a little failure... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Aug 2023
  • What Do You Think?

As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?

Mixed Signals, presents research findings that remind us again about failures to understand the complexities surrounding incentives and ways of avoiding or minimizing their unintended consequences. Most business leaders would probably... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

"Washington" telling them what they can and cannot do with their property. Both sides battle for increased or decreased legislation while ignoring possibilities for wiser regulation through joint problem solving. When a sports View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk

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