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- 2010
- Chapter
Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice
By: Alvin E. Roth
The deferred acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and indirectly, by raising new theoretical questions. Deferred acceptance algorithms...
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- Portrait Project
Stacy Sonnenberg
ones, cook extravagant meals, and see plays and baseball game. I want to be brave enough to face failure with a shrug of the shoulder and a desire to try again. I want to be brave enough to believe in myself.
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
assume trillions of dollars in liabilities spent to try to repair a broken system. The costs of regulatory failure and the urgency of regulatory reform could not be clearer.” Related Links Too Big To Fail
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- September 1983 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Allen Lane
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
Describes Allen Lane's search for a business to buy. The case explores several failed attempts and the ethical, business, and tax issues that surround the acquisition business. Ends with a description of a new acquisition candidate, an independent valuation report of...
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Stevenson, Howard H., and Michael J. Roberts. "Allen Lane." Harvard Business School Case 384-077, September 1983. (Revised May 1999.)
- Portrait Project
Omar A. Abou-Sayed
an appointment. Hell, I am flat out CRAZY! Okay, perhaps that is not entirely true. In fact, it is not really true at all, except for the part about my inane comments. No, when I really think about it, I realize how many fears I actually have: The fear of View Details
- August 2019
- Supplement
Rand Fishkin at Moz (B)
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Startups;
Scaling;
Entrepreneurship;
Failure;
Business Startups;
Diversification;
Growth Management
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Rand Fishkin at Moz (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 820-003, August 2019.
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
spectacular corporate failure in modern capitalism. Was this an aberration?” he questioned. “Can we draw lessons that can be applied to other corporations? What are the implications for our research and teaching?” Dean Kim B. Clark also...
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- June 2015
- Teaching Note
Quincy Apparel
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lisa C. Mazzanti
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
After-action reviews often neglect to address the multiple factors contributing to large-scale organizational failures. How Should Organizations Learn From Failure? Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science After successive failures to...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Hoop Dreams
Boston entrepreneur Steve Belkin (MBA 1971) first tried to buy an NBA team — the Boston Celtics — twenty years ago. That attempt ended in failure for the founder and chairman of Trans National Group, a marketing and investment company. As...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
of their actions. He came to see their criminal decisions not as failures of reasoning but as failures of intuition. “Morals go out the window when the pressure is on,” Steven Hoffenberg, who ran a...
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Jennifer Myers
- Web
Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
results. An additional underlying theme of the course is on personal failure , highlighting the major missteps and early career challenges that leaders fall into. The course asks students to evaluate their own blind spots and shortcomings...
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- January 2023
- Case
Kavnia Coffee
By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Kumba Sennaar, Sarah Mehta and Jiyoon Han
Case on a coffee hardware startup where a series of experiments and pivots led founder to conclude that the venture was no longer viable.
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- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
When Noam Wasserman (HBS MBA 1999) spent his MBA summer internship working for a VC firm, he observed important universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the "fundamental implications of those decisions were getting the startups into trouble...
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by Garry Emmons
- 2020
- Working Paper
Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results
To explore determinants of new venture performance, the CEOs of 470 early-stage startups were surveyed regarding a broad range of factors related to their venture’s customer value proposition, product management, marketing, technology and operations, financial...
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Keywords:
Startups;
Survey Research;
Performance Analysis;
Entrepreneurship;
Performance;
Analysis;
Business Startups;
Failure;
Surveys
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-057, October 2020.
- 2013
- Working Paper
The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field
By: Timothy Gubler, Ian I. Larkin and Lamar Pierce
Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of five industrial laundry plants to show that awards can carry significant...
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Keywords:
Motivation and Incentives;
Service Delivery;
Performance Productivity;
Failure;
Service Industry
Gubler, Timothy, Ian I. Larkin, and Lamar Pierce. "The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-069, February 2013.
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Stacy Sonnenberg “I want to be brave enough to face failure with a shrug of the shoulder and a desire to try again.” Raised: suburban Chicago Calls Home: New York City Undergrad: MIT, civil engineering In High School and College: swing...
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Finance
- December 2001 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
John Smithers
By: Nitin Nohria and Todd Jick
Describes an ill-fated effort to institute a total quality program. Using the vantage point of one of the managers selected to be a quality instructor, the case traces the rise and fall of the quality effort during its very brief existence over the course of six...
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Nohria, Nitin, and Todd Jick. "John Smithers." Harvard Business School Case 402-041, December 2001. (Revised November 2002.)
- November 2012 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
The Facebook IPO Litigation
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Annelena Loeb
Despite its success in the social-networking space, Facebook Inc.'s May 2012 IPO was largely considered a failure. Facebook faced multiple lawsuits and its share price had dropped significantly. Adversaries contended that Facebook had misled investors and violated...
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Keywords:
Social Networking;
IPO;
Litigation Risk;
Initial Public Offering;
Ethics;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Failure;
Consumer Products Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
United States
Goldberg, Lena G., and Annelena Loeb. "The Facebook IPO Litigation." Harvard Business School Case 313-080, November 2012. (Revised June 2013.)
- December 1989
- Supplement
People Express Decline: Interview with Don Burr, Video
By: Michael Beer
Presents an interview with Don Burr, CEO, as he reviews his account of how and why People Express failed as a corporation and was ultimately sold to Continental Airlines.
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Beer, Michael. "People Express Decline: Interview with Don Burr, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 890-508, December 1989.