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- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
can help a lot, and yet these are not sufficient. Entrepreneurship is a skill you learn out in the wild, through failure after failure and through persistence when everything seems to be going against you.”...
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- 1996
- Book
Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM
By: D. Q. Mills and G. B. Friesen
Mills, D. Q., and G. B. Friesen. Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1996.
- July 2010
- Teaching Note
Xanadu on Broadway
By: Anita Elberse
Teaching Note for 508062.
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- December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Managing a Public Image: Rob Thomas
By: Robin J. Ely and Ingrid Vargas
Rob Thomas describes some of the challenges he has faced as a white, middle-aged man who is managing director of a mid-size consulting firm where he is committed to increasing staff gender and racial diversity. Unwilling to risk the disapproval of any constituency,...
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Ely, Robin J., and Ingrid Vargas. "Managing a Public Image: Rob Thomas." Harvard Business School Case 405-054, December 2004. (Revised April 2006.)
- November 1994
- Background Note
Why Bad Things Happen to Good Companies
By: Benson P. Shapiro, Adrian J. Slywotsky and Richard S. Tedlow
Describes the Darwinian internal and external processes that lead to poor performance from a previously well performing company. Demonstrates why any business design eventually fails and the role of organizational calcification and poor leadership in the failure. Also...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Management Practices and Processes;
Organizational Design;
Failure;
Performance
Shapiro, Benson P., Adrian J. Slywotsky, and Richard S. Tedlow. "Why Bad Things Happen to Good Companies." Harvard Business School Background Note 595-045, November 1994.
- Profile
Bruce Gago
plan to execute, the bigger risk would in fact be to abandon that to pursue a "safe" career path. HBS is not insurance against entrepreneurial failure but it certainly increases the probability of entrepreneurial success. What...
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- September 2009
- Case
Intel NBI: Image Components Organization
By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
The Image Components Organization (ICO) was an internal venture that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives. It sought to initially develop and sell a high performance integrated CMOS image sensor module for cellular phones. ICO's opening assumptions were that it...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Product Development;
Production;
Failure;
Diversification;
Semiconductor Industry
Shih, Willy C., and Thomas Thurston. "Intel NBI: Image Components Organization." Harvard Business School Case 610-028, September 2009.
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
nationwide backlash against it. Talbot needs to consider whether to continue with the brand name or change it in light of the public outcry. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/512020-PDF-ENG Social Failures and Social Solutions:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2001 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
Webvan
Examines Webvan's operations and the processes by which it delivers groceries that were ordered from the Internet to customers' homes. Recounts Webvan's history from founding through early 2001 and concentrates on the unique approaches to warehousing, delivery,...
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- Portrait Project
Rick Ambrust
semester in a row. But for those 10 minutes, I was forced to be honest with myself and truly decide what I wanted to do. This stuck. And your plan? Ha, good question. Well, I have come to realize that I live for failure... sounds weird even as I type it. Sorry Mom and...
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- Portrait Project
Cameron Johnson
I love my scars. Full disclosure: I have had stitches in my head seven times. Failure has been my greatest professor. The first time I landed a backflip on a bicycle, scored a touchdown, or descended from my grandmother's rooftop into her...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
with technology and new organizational structures, are creating health care delivery systems that offer high quality and low costs. Analyzing the successes and failures of a variety of health-care ventures, Herzlinger demonstrates, in...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
address market failures in global health-care delivery and education. Gates Champions Creative Capitalism Seated in comfortable armchairs, keynote speaker Bill Gates continued on the theme of cross-sector cooperation in an informal...
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- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
that agents experience reduced demand for service failures due to stockouts, but not for service failures due to network downtime, suggesting that consumers differentially ascribe responsibility for service...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Crash Analysis
HBS faculty members and other experts across Harvard reflect on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the state of the banking industry. How ‘Payment Banks’ Could Prevent the Next Bank Collapse Professor Mihir Desai writes in Harvard Business Review that to shore up...
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Real Estate Investing - Course Catalog
important part of this section. Success and Failure The last module will reflect an investment committee style organization highlighting key decision-making characteristics that may lead to success or failure. Pedagogical Mix Real estate...
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- 17 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Ethics in Globalization
capitalism in general, and the financial crisis in particular. The current financial crisis has raised questions about the legitimacy of capitalism. Ethical failures certainly played a role. While it remains to be seen whether and how...
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Re: Rafael M. Di Tella
- July 2001
- Case
Regal Cinemas LBO (B)
By: Malcolm S. Salter and Daniel Green
Supplements the (A) case.
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Salter, Malcolm S., and Daniel Green. "Regal Cinemas LBO (B)." Harvard Business School Case 902-020, July 2001.
- December 1999 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Introducing New Coke
On April 23, 1985, the Coca-Cola Co. announced a decision that would rock the world. The old Coke formula would be taken off the market and replaced with a smoother, sweeter taste. The reaction of the American people was immediate and violent, causing three months of...
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Keywords:
Failure;
Product Development;
Brands and Branding;
Manufacturing Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Fournier, Susan M. "Introducing New Coke." Harvard Business School Case 500-067, December 1999. (Revised October 2001.)
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
Michael Norton Publication:Journal of Consumer Research (forthcoming) Abstract We show that people non-normatively infer event causes from event consequences. For example, people inferred that a product failure (computer crash) had a...
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Sean Silverthorne