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- January 2014 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission
By: Anette Mikes
The Kursk, a Russian nuclear-powered submarine sank in the relatively shallow waters of the Barents Sea in August 2000, during a naval exercise. Numerous survivors were reported to be awaiting rescue, and within a week, an international rescue party gathered at the...
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Risk Management;
Moral Sensibility;
Leadership;
Organizational Structure;
Crisis Management;
Failure;
Cooperation;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Norway;
United Kingdom;
Russia
Mikes, Anette. "The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission." Harvard Business School Case 114-046, January 2014. (Revised August 2014.)
- 2011
- Working Paper
The Importance of Work Context in Organizational Learning from Error
By: Lucy H. MacPhail and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper examines the implications of work context for learning from errors in organizations. Prior research has shown that attitudes and behaviors related to error vary between groups within organizations but has not investigated or theorized the ways in which...
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- August 2009
- Case
Intel NBI: Vivonic
By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
Vivonic was a start-up that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives that sought to develop and sell personal health monitoring hardware and software. When it was first funded, Intel was in the midst of record growth and was seeking diversification. But the company...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Experience and Expertise;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Product Development;
Failure;
Diversification;
Semiconductor Industry
Shih, Willy C., and Thomas Thurston. "Intel NBI: Vivonic." Harvard Business School Case 610-025, August 2009.
- August 2019 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Baroo (A): Pet Concierge
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Susie L. Ma
Baroo CEO Lindsay Hyde was facing unrest from the board of her pet services startup in August 2017. One board member (and lead investor) was alarmed that Baroo’s growth was slowing while its appetite for funding was accelerating. Hyde wanted to hit the gas and continue...
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Entrepreneurship;
Outcome or Result;
Failure;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Venture Capital;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Opportunities;
Strategy;
Service Industry;
United States;
Massachusetts
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Susie L. Ma. "Baroo (A): Pet Concierge." Harvard Business School Case 820-011, August 2019. (Revised August 2022.)
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
round of funding. They found that failure rates increased after the introduction of cloud computing in 2006, implying that although money was being spread to more firms, many of them were failing before they received a second round of...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
cutbacks, the firm was late to the game in the digital imaging market. In 2012, Kodak filed for bankruptcy. The aforementioned Nokia fixated on maintaining its leadership in the low-end phone business, a failure to anticipate the rise of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Business Review You Need an Innovation Strategy By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
latitude," and insuring "no negative consequences" associated with failure of innovative ideas. The right kind of leadership—capable of building trust, the willingness to take risk, and establishing a culture tolerant of...
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by Jim Heskett
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
over 100 early-stage deals, we believe that an investment opportunity has four essential elements, that, when brought together in the right form, represent a high-potential opportunity to make money. If only one of the elements is out of sync, View Details
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by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- Web
From the Dean - Annual Report 2020
exhibit exploring how it affects business innovations. The US Competitiveness Project leaned into the contentious political climate with a report detailing the structural failures in the US political system and how they are holding the...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
fail and still be seen as contributing. They shake off the idea that failure is always a bad thing.” Top Tips Lend A Helping Hand: Superbanan, Boda Borg Boston’s most physical quest, isn’t just easier when you work with your teammates;...
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April White
- October 2003 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron
Presents an historical overview of Enron's rise and fall and summarizes what is currently known about (1) the evolution of Enron's business model, (2) the organizational processes Enron officials relied on to drive and monitor the business, (3) emergent behavior...
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Business Model;
Behavior;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Success;
Transformation;
Failure;
Business Processes;
Energy Industry;
United States
Salter, Malcolm S. "Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron." Harvard Business School Case 904-036, October 2003. (Revised April 2005.)
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
experiments are most effective when time matters most, cost is not an overriding factor, and developers expect to learn little that would guide them in planning the next round of experiments. Fail Early And Often, But Avoid Mistakes Embrace View Details
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by Stefan Thomke
- Portrait Project
Zachary Surak
failure of this potential mentor and coach. Did he even realize the wonderful opportunity he had missed? I strive never to waste such precious opportunities. Have you ever given someone praise for something that a million other people...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia
occurrence of problems such as overfishing.) Organizationally, Bazerman asserts that the U.S. government is hampered by bureaucratic fiefdoms with too little regulatory flexibility and a lack of collaboration across units and agencies. And in the political realm,...
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- February 1999 (Revised June 1999)
- Case
Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (Abridged)
By: H. Kent Bowen, Jeffrey L. Bradach, Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty
Business unit manager Tom Hutton has empowered a group of hourly workers to purchase grit blast equipment for two cells. The capital purchase decision runs into some problems when the two cells fail to reach an agreement on which equipment to purchase. A rewritten...
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Keywords:
Business Units;
Decision Making;
Labor;
Managerial Roles;
Failure;
Problems and Challenges;
Power and Influence;
Hardware
Bowen, H. Kent, Jeffrey L. Bradach, Linda A. Hill, and Kristin Doughty. "Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (Abridged) ." Harvard Business School Case 499-050, February 1999. (Revised June 1999.)
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
firm's intellect away from my perhaps not-so-remarkable talents, and we ended up with remarkable outcomes for over 30 years. So that system only happened because we had an early disaster. Dan: In the book, Steve, you write that every year, when you address the...
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- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
technologies. Currently, he is a co-founder of X-COR Therapeutics, an extracorporeal CO2 removal device company focused on COPD and respiratory failure treatment. In May 2018, X-COR was awarded the runner-up prize in the Life Science...
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- Web
Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
from early grants and equity to later stage deployment capital Examine global and local market failures that affect tough tech ventures and policy interventions that may stimulate (or stymy) the investment in, and scalability, of these...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
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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