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- 2017
- Working Paper
Innovation Policies
By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation, but has not examined how this affects which projects principals will start. We demonstrate that failure tolerance has an equilibrium price ― in terms of an investor's... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Investing; Abandonment Option; Failure Tolerance; Venture Capital; Attitudes; Investment; Failure; Innovation and Invention
Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Innovation Policies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-038, October 2012. (Revised March 2017. forthcoming in the AiSM Special issue on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Platforms.)
- December 2018
- Technical Note
The First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics and Market Failures
By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Robert Scherf
Weinzierl, Matthew C., and Robert Scherf. "The First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics and Market Failures." Harvard Business School Technical Note 719-027, December 2018.
- winter 1994
- Article
Negotiating NIMBYs: Learning from the Failure of the Massachusetts Siting Law
By: M. A. Wheeler
Wheeler, M. A. "Negotiating NIMBYs: Learning from the Failure of the Massachusetts Siting Law." Yale Journal on Regulation 11 (winter 1994): 241–291.
- January 13, 2022
- Article
How to Build a Life: How to Succeed at Failure
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: How to Succeed at Failure." The Atlantic (January 13, 2022).
- May 1984
- Article
Interpreting the Statistical Failures of Some Rational Expectations Macroeconomic Models
By: J. J. Rotemberg
Keywords: Macroeconomics
Rotemberg, J. J. "Interpreting the Statistical Failures of Some Rational Expectations Macroeconomic Models." American Economic Review 74, no. 2 (May 1984): 188–193.
- December 2022
- Article
I Don't 'Recall': The Decision to Delay Innovation Launch to Avoid Costly Product Failure
By: Byungyeon Kim, Oded Koenigsberg and Elie Ofek
Innovations embody novel features or cutting-edge components aimed at delivering desired customer benefits.
Oftentimes, however, we observe the need to recall new products shortly after their introduction. Indeed, a firm
may rush an innovation to market in an attempt... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Management; Innovation And Strategy; Product Development Strategy; Product Introduction; Quality Control; Product Recalls; Game Theory; Market Timing; Innovation Strategy; Product Launch; Product Development
Kim, Byungyeon, Oded Koenigsberg, and Elie Ofek. "I Don't 'Recall': The Decision to Delay Innovation Launch to Avoid Costly Product Failure." Management Science 68, no. 12 (December 2022): 8889–8908.
- March 28, 2014
- Blog Post
What's Positive About Failure?
By: Christopher G. Myers
Myers, Christopher G. "What's Positive About Failure?" Center for Positive Organizations, Blog (March 28, 2014). http://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/blog/whats-positive-about-failure/.
- Summer 2014
- Article
Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of the Causes of Operational Failures in Hospitals
By: Anita L. Tucker, W. Scott Heisler and Laura D. Janisse
Frontline care providers in hospitals spend at least 10% of their time working around operational failures, which are situations where information, supplies, or equipment needed for patient care are insufficient. However, little is known about underlying causes of... View Details
Tucker, Anita L., W. Scott Heisler, and Laura D. Janisse. "Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of the Causes of Operational Failures in Hospitals." Permanente Journal 18, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 33–41.
- April 2004
- Article
The Impact of Operational Failures on Hospital Nurses and Their Patients
By: A. L. Tucker
Tucker, A. L. "The Impact of Operational Failures on Hospital Nurses and Their Patients." Journal of Operations Management 22, no. 2 (April 2004).
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
Does the federal deficit matter? Oceans of ink track and report this monster tally (current estimates for fiscal year 2006 stand at $260 billion), yet Jerry Green of Harvard Business School and Laurence J. Kotlikoff of Boston University contend that the deficit and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Improve and Innovate
Keywords: by Mark D. Cannon & Amy C. Edmondson
- May 2004
- Article
Survival Beyond Succession? The Contingent Impact of Founder Succession on Organizational Failure
By: Heather Haveman and Mukti Khaire
Haveman, Heather, and Mukti Khaire. "Survival Beyond Succession? The Contingent Impact of Founder Succession on Organizational Failure." Special Issue on the Proceedings of the Conference on Evolutionary Approaches to Entrepreneurship in Honor of Howard Aldrich, University of Maryland, October 3, 2002. Journal of Business Venturing 19 (May 2004): 437–463.
- July–August 2014
- Article
Becoming a First-Class Noticer: How to Spot and Prevent Ethical Failures in Your Organization
By: Max Bazerman
We'd like to think that no smart, upstanding manager would ever overlook or turn a blind eye to threats or wrongdoing that ultimately imperil his or her business. Yet it happens all the time. We fall prey to obstacles that obscure or drown out important signals that... View Details
Keywords: Accountability; Business Ethics; Cognitive Psychology; Human Behavior; Personal Ethics In Business; Business or Company Management; Ethics
Bazerman, Max. "Becoming a First-Class Noticer: How to Spot and Prevent Ethical Failures in Your Organization." Harvard Business Review 92, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2014): 116–119.
- 1988
- Chapter
The Critical Path for Change: Keys to Success and Failure in Six Companies
By: Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat and Bert Spector
Beer, Michael, Russell Eisenstat, and Bert Spector. "The Critical Path for Change: Keys to Success and Failure in Six Companies." In Corporate Transformation: Revitalizing Organizations for a Competitive World, edited by Ralph H. Kilmann and Teresa Joyce Covin. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988.
- January 15, 2002
- Editorial
Enron failures show U.S. auditing system is in dire need of big change
By: G. Loewenstein, D. A. Moore and M. H. Bazerman
Keywords: Accounting Audits
Loewenstein, G., D. A. Moore, and M. H. Bazerman. "Enron failures show U.S. auditing system is in dire need of big change." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (January 15, 2002), p. 11–C.
- winter 1994
- Article
The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems
By: M. C. Jensen
Jensen, M. C. "The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 6, no. 4 (winter 1994). (Reprinted in the JACF, (winter 1994); Finanzmarkt und Portfolio Management, (January 1993); and Jensen, Theory of the Firm, (HUP, 2000) & abridged version forthcoming in Management Revolution. . ., (HUP, 2001).)
- 17 Sep 2007
- Conference Presentation
Clear and Present Danger: The Failure of Political Institutions and New-venture Survival
By: Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine
- September 2000
- Article
Regulatory Free Cash Flow and the High Cost of Insurance Company Failures
By: Brian Hall
Hall, Brian. "Regulatory Free Cash Flow and the High Cost of Insurance Company Failures." Journal of Risk and Insurance 67, no. 3 (September 2000): 415–438.
- March 1990
- Article
Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and The Failure of Established Firms
By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Kim B. Clark
Keywords: Design; Innovation and Invention; Product; Information Technology; Failure; Business Ventures
Henderson, Rebecca M., and Kim B. Clark. "Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and The Failure of Established Firms." Administrative Science Quarterly 35, no. 1 (March 1990): 9–30. (Reprinted in The Management of Innovation, edited by John Storey, London: Elgar, 2004; Managing Strategic Innovation and Change, edited by M.Tushman and P. Anderson, Oxford University Press, 2004; and in Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, edited by Robert Burgelman, Clayton Christensen and Steven Wheelwright. Oxford University Press, 2004. Translated into Chinese for inclusion in an ASQ sponsored collection of "best papers" in 2005.)
- November 2018
- Supplement
Triangulate (B) Post Mortem
By: Thomas Eisenmann and Lauren Barley
Eisenmann, Thomas, and Lauren Barley. "Triangulate (B) Post Mortem." Harvard Business School Supplement 819-080, November 2018.