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  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Faculty Research Online

The Best Place for Retirement Funds Location, location, location isn’t just about real estate. Assistant Professor Daniel Bergstresser discusses his research on optimal asset-location strategies. The Hard Work of Failure Analysis We all... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • July 1987 (Revised May 1993)
  • Case

Atlas Copco (A): Gaining and Building Distribution Channels

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
Atlas Copco, a Swedish company, holds the highest market share for air compressors worldwide. However, its attempts to enter U.S. markets have been unsuccessful. The case describes a series of strategic distribution maneuvers implemented by the company which enable it... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development; Marketing Channels; Market Entry and Exit; Market Participation; Distribution Channels; Failure; Industrial Products Industry; Sweden; United States
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  • December 1994
  • Case

Intel's Pentium: When the Chips Are Down (A)

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
Intel, the largest-selling manufacturer of microprocessor computer chips, finds itself in a brand-threatening situation when a flaw is revealed in its top-of-the-line Pentium chip. The story is front-page news for weeks. The company invested tens of millions of dollars... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Engineering; Crisis Management; Brands and Branding; Production; Failure; Semiconductor Industry
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  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

Rewards Of Channel Stewardship The concept of channel stewardship is meant to appeal to any organization in the distribution channel that wants to bring a disciplined approach to channel strategy. As mentioned, a channel steward might be the maker of the View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 30 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

productivity and quality of care can be increased by uncovering organizational factors associated with operational failures so that hospitals can reduce the frequency with which these View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 13 Jun 2018
  • News

The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)

In our latest “First Five Years” interview, we discuss product reviews, lessons learned at HBS, and more with BestReviews.com cofounders Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014). The company, which they launched in 2014, publishes... View Details
  • 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. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Startups; Failure; Business Exit or Shutdown; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Portraits from the Class of 2003

Scott St. Germain “When my children are asked, ‘So, what does your father do?’, I hope they will reply, ‘He’s the coach of my baseball team.’” Grew Up: Raynham, Massachusetts Why HBS: case method allows learning from others’ success and View Details
  • 02 Oct 2015
  • News

The ‘F’ Word

(the company that invented voicemail); Jane Fonda’s Workout; and Playboy TV/Video, my most instructive failure was during my year as product manager of Tostitos. Top management had decided that we would... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Launch Codes

“Too often, they’ll design something for what they think their customers’ needs are, and they haven’t developed plans to test these assumptions.” #2 Aiming for perfection: “You want to go to market with a minimally viable product and get... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 07 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations

for employees to openly discuss issues around diversity and inclusion can connect back to goals of effective collaboration that produce exceptional products and services. Furthermore, setting the stage is also about reframing failure.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Social Networking; IPO; Litigation Risk; Initial Public Offering; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Failure; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

What Happened to Leadership?

IMMELT: A prescription to fix failures at the top. Sgt. Vincent Fusco/Usma For a speech on “Reviving American Leadership,” General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82) chose a discerning audience: the corps of cadets at the U.S. Military... View Details
Keywords: Management; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

  Publications December 2014 Academy of Management Journal Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises By: Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul, Anne-claire Pache, and Jacob Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

diversity and inclusion can connect back to goals of effective collaboration that produces exceptional products and services. Furthermore, setting the stage is also about reframing failure. Organizations that are afraid to admit View Details
  • Mar 2012
  • Report

A Jobs Compact for America's Future

What's good for individual U.S. companies is no longer automatically good for business nationwide, for U.S. workers, or for the economy. That, coupled with the failure of business, government, and other institutions to engage in View Details
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

New Releases

in the world of digital communications will lie not in knowing how to engineer big technological breakthroughs but in how to develop products and services by creatively combining new and existing technologies with innovative managerial... View Details
  • April 1993 (Revised November 1994)
  • Case

Chiron Corp.

By: Steven C. Wheelwright
Pablo Valenzuela, vice president of R&D at Chiron Corp., faces several choices for how to allocate scarce resources across several promising projects. These choices will determine Chiron's position in several emerging biotechnology and diagnostic markets, including... View Details
Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Research and Development; Failure; Business Strategy; Joint Ventures; Strategic Planning; Opportunities; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry; California
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  • 07 Oct 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

JetBlue employees and more than 130,000 customers whose flights were cancelled, delayed, or diverted. How did the airline make it right with customers and learn from its mistakes? The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation