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  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

Vision: A Unicorn Evolves

market fit.” In the beginning, Outreach didn’t have a pricing model: “We just kept upping the price, and people kept paying.” Yet the software, while powerful, was unstable. The team had built it quickly and on a budget, because... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; technology; startups; leadership
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

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to new product and service failure rates of 80 percent or more, Zaltman urges market researchers to challenge the status quo. “The sinking of the Titanic resulted from a View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook

cofounder of Intuit, the world leader in software for personal and small business finance. After studying economics and math at the University of Southern California and earning his MBA, he learned the ropes of product marketing at... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

within the confines society imposed. Integral Advantage: Revisiting Emerging Markets and Societies by Ronnie Lessem (MBA 1968) (Routledge) The BRIC countries are heralded for their double-digit economic growth rates, and yet, significant... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

The Camel and the Unicorn

we’re going to examine why Silicon Valley is at risk of losing its startup crown and what that could mean for the future of innovation. READ MORE If you were asked to name some of the greatest entrepreneurial failures in history, you... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Lesson from the Fall

both the movement of capital markets and gains in the price of competitors’ stock can provide executives with unearned windfalls for uncompetitive performance and promote unwarranted overconfidence. Awarding stock grants without... View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 02 Jan 2014
  • News

The Power to Change

right away. He was with E Ink for 12 years, six as CEO, guiding it through multiple near failures to runaway success. The company sold in 2009 for $215 million. Wilcox then followed through on a fatherly promise to his wife—and former... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Business and Environment Initiative; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real

Internet. And yes, Carraway said her team had its share of failure in the process. "After we conducted our market interviews, we realized that some of our questions were leading and that we hadn't thought to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell

Park, California, company boasts an impressive list of multibillion dollar market cap successes, including Healtheon, Intuit, Micromuse, and Strata- Com. Wendell passes his craft on to students enrolled in a popular second-year venture... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

The Devil You Don’t Know

similar: “Our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.” Remarkably, Keynes says much the same... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Terence P. Stewart

happens, lawyering didn't come first for Stewart. After graduating from HBS, he worked for several years in the business trenches, in marketing at J.C. Penney and later as product manager at Kroehler Manufacturing Co., a furniture... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 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
  • 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
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The One That Got Away

percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Not Your Typical Business Conference

all, don't fear failure," she stressed. "Remember, the fear of failure is a sure formula for not achieving success." The theme of risk taking was echoed throughout the day, starting with the first morning panel on corporate leadership... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

From Where We Stand

markets were overextended, but my earlier failure had laid the groundwork for a very successful next chapter of my career. Catherine Bouvier D'Yvoire (MBA 1982), financial advisor to governments, Paris,... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor

Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. Regulation is not antithetical to market capitalism any more than... View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Books

diagnosing whether a company is trapped in active inertia, selecting the right commitment, giving it traction, and avoiding mistakes that commonly derail transformation efforts. Sull maintains that inaction is rarely the cause of an organization’s View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 24 Oct 2013
  • News

Engineering a More Secure World

Purdue University in the early 1970s, Harris saw lots of classmates veer down the wrong path. Seeing the high failure rate among minority students, he joined a campus group of black engineers, where, he says, "Our entire objective was to... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
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