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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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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
career. The successes and failures of Apple, NeXT, and Pixar are used to probe the role of strategy in organizational success and to examine a leader's distinctive responsibility to set (and reset) a viable course for a business. While...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
to Hrad Technika, a growing outsourcing firm from the Czech Republic, Tegan believes they are getting a problem off their hands. Unfortunately, the project goes poorly, and Tegan is left with the decision of how to prevent a failure in...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
thirty years earlier - a story in product failure immortalized in an HBS case that impressed this maxim upon legions of Harvard MBAs: ketchup that must be spooned out of a jar, instead of banged out of a tall, skinny bottle, just won't...
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- March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Teaching Note
Ransomware Attack at Springhill Medical Center
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-065. In July, 2019, Springhill Medical Center (“SMC”) in Mobile, Alabama fell prey to a malicious ransomware attack that crippled the hospital’s internal network systems and public-facing web page. While the hospital rushed to...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery
have to make sure our actions always match our values,” she says, and that means being as open about the little things as the big ones. Here’s a sense of what that can look like when the stakes are higher: The second phase of the investigation into organizational View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
failure and risk—where it's actually encouraged, because it can foster creative problem-solving—then we will have made progress. We need to encourage risk-taking by organizations, provided that it's accompanied with rigorous data...
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by Julia Hanna
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
earn profits in the future. Conversely, other stakeholders need to understand that companies need to make a profit in order to survive and grow. Failure to do so means that eventually they will not be able to fulfill the needs of other...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
stands to reason that what and how people communicate will determine the success or failure of an enterprise. Says HBS's Chris Bartlett, "We need to think about organizations in a more flexible way, in terms of processes — not as a...
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Nancy O. Perry