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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
fast-food formula for the local market. Teaching a ‘Lean Start-Up’ Strategy Most start-ups fail because they waste too much time and money building the wrong product before realizing too late what the right product should have been, says... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
confident enough to give praise. MORE Read about "Radical Candor" in action at a high-growth EdTech startup in this 2018 HBS case study (purchase required) MORE Read about "Radical Candor" in action at a high-growth EdTech View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
kiteboarding community—which includes Elon Musk and Richard Branson—is custom-made for startup culture, says Tai. “It’s work-hard, play-hard types with strength, stamina, and willingness to try new things, who take calculated risks... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Squeeze Play
LAMAGNA: A fondness for novelty and gadgets, but a commitment to politics and public policy as well. Dal LaMagna (MBA ’70) says he’s writing a memoir titled Failing to Get Ahead, the Washington Post (May 30, 2008) reported. “It’s pretty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
essence, doing the right thing. Each major character in the epic embodies a moral failing or virtue. Das compares their successes and failures with those of prominent contemporary players in economics, business, and politics and finds... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
business plans in my career, but only the last one worked exactly as planned and in many respects exceeded my expectations. My takeaway? Every failed startup effort has the potential to be a valuable... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 14 Oct 2010
- News
Jobs Bill Misses Mark
recent book, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, is the first in-depth examination of failed government efforts to support entrepreneurs. So what should government do? Lerner has this advice for policy makers. If you really want to create jobs,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
fail just when the region needed it most. The advent of coal mining more than a century ago (the first rail shipment of eastern Kentucky coal rolled out of Harlan County in 1911) transformed a sparsely populated rural area dominated by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Buckley (Profile Books) Beginning in the mid-1990s, Sabis, a private, for-profit education provider, transformed the Alfred Glickman School from a failing school in one of America’s most violent cities into a silver medalist in U.S. News... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
harvest the kinetic energy of tides and waves without falling to pieces or costing an arm and a leg is tricky business, and many have failed in the attempt. “Plenty of systems have ended up on the floor of the ocean,” says Rahul Shendure... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
mission to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities. In 2020, their efforts reached 37 million people. That senior leaders had so profoundly failed this survivor—and put... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
to survive in new economy. The Metail Economy provides innovative methods for connecting with the Me-centric consumer and shows how to thrive in this consumer revolution. Joel Bines provides examples of companies that have failed to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
entrepreneurs is Mary Kay Ash, a legend as a glass-ceiling breaker and a woman who built a very successful business with a go-to-market strategy of direct selling. Unlike Mary Kay Ash, however, not all aspiring business owners are willing or able to invest their... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
their predecessors (Intel, Apple, and Oracle, to name a few), in the last fifteen years, Valley startups such as Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Yahoo!, and Adobe have changed the way the world works, thinks, plays, communicates, and does... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
money out there looking for interesting new businesses. On the face of it, it’s a match made in heaven, with lots of positives; but beware the negatives. Those investment decisions will shape the future of your business. The standard models that investors impose on... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
ability to persevere when others might give up. Important, too, are a large measure of luck and some help from those who have already traveled the entrepreneurial road... The Stories Behind the Startups So I'm on the red-eye from LAX to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance. It outlines the ways in which firms commonly View Details