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  • 03 Feb 2016
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The Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Mission

  • February 2015 (Revised April 2016)
  • Supplement

Quincy Apparel (B)

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lisa C. Mazzanti
The (B) case provides post-mortem analysis from Quincy's cofounders on why their startup failed and what they could have done differently. Explanations for failure focus on Quincy's ambitious value proposition and resulting operational challenges; cofounder conflict;... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Online Retail; Women's Apparel; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Failure; Business Startups; E-commerce; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
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Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Lisa C. Mazzanti. "Quincy Apparel (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 815-095, February 2015. (Revised April 2016.)
  • 02 Apr 2012
  • News

'People Problems' Sink Most Startups

  • 03 Oct 2008
  • News

Wall Street's Latest Crisis of Leadership

  • 04 Feb 2016
  • Cold Call Podcast

The Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Mission

Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
  • 07 Mar 2011
  • News

Why Companies Fail--and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

Despite the wrongdoings that have convulsed corporate America in recent months, SEC Commissioner Harvey J. Goldschmid believes that the business world is on the mend. "I have a very optimistic view," he said. "Out of scandal comes healing and... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
  • March 2011 (Revised June 2011)
  • Background Note

Government Policy and Clean-Energy Finance

By: Ramana Nanda, Sanjay Aggarwal and Nilam Ganenthiran
What leads to market failures in finance of clean energy startups? How do different governments approach this issue? View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Finance; Policy; Energy Industry
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Nanda, Ramana, Sanjay Aggarwal, and Nilam Ganenthiran. "Government Policy and Clean-Energy Finance." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-026, March 2011. (Revised June 2011.)
  • 09 Nov 2017
  • News

Your Strategy Should Be a Hypothesis You Constantly Adjust

  • August 2016 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

Videojet (A)

By: Raffaella Sadun, Bharat Anand and Eric Van den Steen
In 2005 Craig Purse, the CEO of Videojet, a company recently acquired by the conglomerate Danaher, is dealing with the unexpected failure of a new high-tech printer just launched in the market. The new product exemplified the first real instance in which the Videojet... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Processes; Conglomerates; Relational Contracts; Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Diversification; Management Practices and Processes; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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Sadun, Raffaella, Bharat Anand, and Eric Van den Steen. "Videojet (A)." Harvard Business School Case 717-403, August 2016. (Revised March 2018.)
  • February 21, 2025
  • Article

How a Company’s Ownership Model Shapes the Mistakes It Makes

By: Josh Baron
Why do some companies continue to thrive for decades and others die after an initial run of success? Like many kinds of accidents, company failure is generally the consequence of cascading effects that combine to overwhelm a previously effective strategy. But the... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Failure; Ownership
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Baron, Josh. "How a Company’s Ownership Model Shapes the Mistakes It Makes." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (February 21, 2025).

    Keep Your AI Projects on Track

    AI—and especially its newest star, generative AI—is today a central theme in corporate boardrooms, leadership discussions, and casual exchanges among employees eager to supercharge their productivity. Sadly, beneath the aspirational headlines and tantalizing... View Details
    • 31 Jul 2012
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    Reinvention isn’t easy, but sometimes it’s the only way forward

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    Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems

    By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell

    Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.

    Data... View Details

    Keywords: Perspective; Opportunities; Safety; Performance Efficiency; System; Failure; Conferences; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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    Tucker, Anita L., Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes, and Alyson Falwell. "Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems." Health Services Research 43, nos. 5, pt.2 (October 2008).
    • May 29, 2019
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    A Study of More Than 250 Platforms Reveals Why Most Fail

    By: David B. Yoffie, Annabelle Gawer and Michael A. Cusumano
    This piece explores why digital platforms fail. We collected data on 250 failures over the last 20 years, analyzed the most common causes for a platform to disappear or morph into an alternative business. View Details
    Keywords: Platform; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Failure; Analysis
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    Yoffie, David B., Annabelle Gawer, and Michael A. Cusumano. "A Study of More Than 250 Platforms Reveals Why Most Fail." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 29, 2019).
    • 04 Feb 2016
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    The Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Mission

    • 1997
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    The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

    By: Clayton M. Christensen

    His work is cited by the world's best known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller, innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right—yet still lose market... View Details

    Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Leadership
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    Christensen, Clayton M. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.
    • July 2001
    • Case

    Regal Cinemas LBO (A)

    By: Malcolm S. Salter and Daniel Green
    This case describes one of the greatest LBO failures of the 1990s. It presents an overview of the difficulties two experienced buyout sponsors were forced to deal with. View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Corporate Governance; Failure
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    Salter, Malcolm S., and Daniel Green. "Regal Cinemas LBO (A)." Harvard Business School Case 902-019, July 2001.
    • 02 Feb 2015
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    Stephen Schwarzman Has a Warning for Wall Street’s Entrepreneurs

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    Why Hospitals Don't Learn from Failures: Organizational and Psychological Dynamics That Inhibit System Change

    By: A. Tucker and A. Edmondson
    The importance of hospitals learning from their failures hardly needs to be stated. Not only are matters of life and death at stake on a daily basis, but also an increasing number of U.S. hospitals are operating in the red. This article reports on in-depth qualitative... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    Tucker, A., and A. Edmondson. "Why Hospitals Don't Learn from Failures: Organizational and Psychological Dynamics That Inhibit System Change." California Management Review 45, no. 2 (Winter 2003). (Winner of Accenture Award For the article published in the California Management Review that has made the most important contribution to improving the practice of management​.)
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