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- 26 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: Preventing Future Financial Failures
Podcast with: David Moss Interviewer: Jim Aisner Running Time: 21 min., 03 sec. To listen to this interview with professor David Moss, click on the triangular Play button below. The Macromedia Flash plug-in is required to play this video. If you install the Flash... View Details
- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
If you’re a business leader who oozes achievement, sprints up the corporate ladder, and earns big bucks, your co-workers probably resent you to some extent. New research says high-achievers can win over their colleagues with a simple approach: by sharing the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
In the late 1980s, scientists for New York City-based drug-maker Pfizer began testing what was then known as compound UK-92,480 for the treatment of angina. Although UK-92,480 seemed promising in the lab and in animal tests, the compound showed little benefit in... View Details
- July – August 1979
- Article
Power Failure in Management Circuits
By: R. M. Kanter
Keywords: Management
Kanter, R. M. "Power Failure in Management Circuits." Harvard Business Review 57, no. 4 (July–August 1979): 65–75. (Reprintings include Organization Theory: Selected Readings, edited by D.S. Pugh. London: Penguin, 1989; Classics of Organization Theory, edited by J.M. Shafritz. Chicago, Ill.: Dorsey Press, 1986; Harvard Business Review, The Executive Dilemma. N.Y.: Wiley, 1985; The Dynamics of Organization, edited by J.N. Yanouzas 1984; Readings in Organizational Behavior and Performance. Chicago: Scott-Foresman, 1983. Organizational Influence Processes, edited by Porter and Allen. Chicago: Scott-Foresman, 1983; Coping with Difficult Employees. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business Review Reprint Series, 1983; Perspectives on Public Bureaucracy, edited by F.A. Kramer (Third edition). Cambridge, Mass.: Winthrop, 1981; Executive Success, edited by E.G. Collins N.Y.: Wiley, 1983. McKinsey Award Winners, 1970-1980. Boston: Harvard Business School, 1982.)
- September 2021
- Article
Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors' R&D Failures
I analyze project continuation decisions where firms may resolve uncertainty through news about competitors' research and development (R&D) failures, as well as through their own results. I examine the trade-offs and interactions between product-market competition and... View Details
Krieger, Joshua L. "Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors' R&D Failures." Management Science 67, no. 9 (September 2021).
- March 2013
- Module Note
Competing with Social Networks: Social Failures
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "Competing with Social Networks: Social Failures." Harvard Business School Module Note 713-497, March 2013.
- 1983
- Article
Public Insurance Provision and Non-Market Failures
By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser
Leonard, Dutch, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Public Insurance Provision and Non-Market Failures." Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance 8 (1983).
- 01 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Organizational Factors that Contribute to Operational Failures in Hospitals
- September 2004
- Teaching Note
Duke Heart Failure Program, The (TN)
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer
Teaching Note to (9-604-033). View Details
- July 2004
- Article
Overcoming Focusing Failures in Competitive Environments
By: Lorraine Chen Idson, Dolly Chugh, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Simone Moran, Brit Grosskopf and Max H. Bazerman
Idson, Lorraine Chen, Dolly Chugh, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Simone Moran, Brit Grosskopf, and Max H. Bazerman. "Overcoming Focusing Failures in Competitive Environments." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 17, no. 3 (July 2004): 159–172.
- 2006
- Chapter
Bounded Awareness: Focusing Failures in Negotiation
By: M. Bazerman and Dolly Chugh
Bazerman, M., and Dolly Chugh. "Bounded Awareness: Focusing Failures in Negotiation." Chap. 2 in Negotiation Theory and Research, edited by Leigh L. Thompson. Frontiers of Social Psychology. NY: Psychology Press, 2006.
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
efficient and cheaper methods that undermine quality audits. The audit committee must have the leadership, independence and information to oversee the auditors and their relationship with the management.— Jay Lorsch This race for profitability and the View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting
By: Julia Rose Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer and Michael W. Toffel
Operational failures occur in all industries with consequences that range from minor inconveniences to major catastrophes. Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Legal Liability; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Failure; Health Industry
Adler-Milstein, Julia Rose, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel. "Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-017, September 2009. (August 2009.)
- March 2013
- Module Note
Competing with Social Networks: Social Failures
By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski
Piskorski, Mikolaj J. "Competing with Social Networks: Social Failures." Harvard Business School Module Note 713-494, March 2013.
- 1988
- Chapter
Demographics, Market Failure and Social Security
By: Jerry R. Green
Green, Jerry R. "Demographics, Market Failure and Social Security." In Social Security and Private Pensions: Providing for Retirement in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Susan M. Wachter. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1988.
- 23 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting
- April 2019
- Article
Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures
People often feel malicious envy, a destructive interpersonal emotion, when they compare themselves to successful peers. Across three online experiments and a field experiment of entrepreneurs, we identify an interpersonal strategy that can mitigate feelings of... View Details
Brooks, Alison Wood, Karen Huang, Nicole Abi-Esber, Ryan W. Buell, Laura Huang, and Brian Hall. "Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148, no. 4 (April 2019): 667–687.
- June 2006
- Article
Operational Failures and Interruptions in Hospital Nursing
By: A. L. Tucker and S. Spear
Tucker, A. L., and S. Spear. "Operational Failures and Interruptions in Hospital Nursing." Health Services Research 41, no. 3 (June 2006): 643–662.
- October 2021
- Article
Board Design and Governance Failures at Peer Firms
By: Shelby Gai, J. Yo-Jud Cheng and Andy Wu
Our study introduces board committees as a crucial determinant of board actions. We examine how directors who structurally link different board committees—referred to as multi-committee directors (MCDs)—explain why some board actions are merely symbolic while others... View Details
Keywords: Board Committees; Board Monitoring; New Director Nomination; Peer Financial Restatements; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Performance Effectiveness
Gai, Shelby, J. Yo-Jud Cheng, and Andy Wu. "Board Design and Governance Failures at Peer Firms." Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 10 (October 2021): 1909–1938.