Market Failures - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

Advances in Strategic Management Innovation Policies By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation but has not examined how this... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Dot Vertigo

prices and market capitalizations, loss of market share, failure to innovate, and reactionary cost-cutting). Organized in three parts, Dot Vertigo addresses the issue of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

conditions are met. "In Western markets that had more thorough privatization programs, the stock markets developed more, and it became less necessary for government to prop up companies financially. In most... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

Programs By: Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a model of government portfolio choice in which a benevolent government chooses the scale of risky projects in the presence of market View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

correlation and its disappearance are both due to market participants' gradually learning to appreciate the difference between good-governance and poor-governance firms. Consistent with learning, the correlation's disappearance was... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

Brunell spent five years helping Vietnam transition to a market economy, instituting government transparency measures and a national competitiveness index. (© Whitehotpix/ZUMAPRESS.com) David Brunell (MBA 1962) is a master at making... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Hoop Dreams

Boston entrepreneur Steve Belkin (MBA 1971) first tried to buy an NBA team — the Boston Celtics — twenty years ago. That attempt ended in failure for the founder and chairman of Trans National Group, a View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

entrepreneurial skills on a broader canvas” We classified what we heard as ten potential disruptors of the global market system: the functioning of the global financial system, barriers to world trade, inequality and consequent populism,... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

results. An additional underlying theme of the course is on personal failure , highlighting the major missteps and early career challenges that leaders fall into. The course asks students to evaluate their own blind spots and shortcomings... View Details

September 2019 (Revised December 2019)
Supplement

Anthony Soohoo: Retrospection on Dot & Bo

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Allison M. Ciechanover and George Gonzalez

The case describes the final year of the once-promising furniture e-tailer, Dot & Bo, that included a challenging fundraising market, troubles with logistics and operations, and a team tragedy. The founder looks back at the experience and shares his learnings about... View Details

Keywords: Startups; Furnishing; Leadership; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Failure; Learning; E-commerce; United States

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Purchase

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

create a strategy that simultaneously benefits both the company and the customers' social interactions. " without such tight integration between the benefits for customer and company, a social strategy is bound to fail," he writes. "Specifically, when the task merely... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Aug 2015
Blog Post

Takeaways from the Class of 2015

do. Stay connected to the thoughts, feelings, and ideas of your frontline employees. They are what is driving the organization. Don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know”. Ask for help. Overcome your pride. Remain humble. It’s not about who is right, it’s about what is... View Details

20 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Risky Business with Structured Finance

at Princeton University, the paper analyzes the difficulties of rating structured finance assets and the perils of relying on ratings to determine prices. "We began studying the corporate bond CDO market roughly three years ago and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

01 Mar 2012
News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

theatrical for some people. But odd as it may seem, their concerns were not very different from the concerns we heard when we talked to business leaders around the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to the sustainability of View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance

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Curriculum | MBA

internship in the second summer. A typical candidate will follow the sample schedule outlined below. MBA/MPP Year 1 Harvard Kennedy School Fall Term Resources, Incentives and Choices I: Markets and Market... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Alumni Books

interviews conducted by the authors, this book is filled with colorful stories about selecting and working with management, pioneering new markets, adding value through operational improvements, applying private-equity principles to nonprofits, and many more subjects.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

Traditional wisdom teaches that brands win market share by offering a wide variety of products, increasing the chance of appealing to a wider variety of customers. But how happy are you when trying to find a head cold remedy at the... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

advice. He suggested that the company test and refine its business model by initially focusing on one payment operation, for parking tickets, in one U.S. city. The entrepreneurs almost bit off his head. "The leader in this market... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

January 2011
Teaching Note

Online Pet Supply Retailing (TN)

By: Tom Nicholas

Teaching Note for 809-117. View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Failure; Information Technology; Market Entry and Exit; Decisions; Retail Industry; United States