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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India

By: Shawn A. Cole
This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test for political capture in a novel way. Studying banks in India, I find that government-owned bank lending tracks the electoral cycle, with agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Political Elections; State Ownership; Banking Industry; India
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Cole, Shawn A. "Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-001, July 2008.
  • December 2018
  • Technical Note

The First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics and Market Failures

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Robert Scherf
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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.
  • 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
Keywords: Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Failure; Business Processes; Health Industry
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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.
  • May 2004
  • Article

Survival Beyond Succession? The Contingent Impact of Founder Succession on Organizational Failure

By: Heather Haveman and Mukti Khaire
Keywords: Failure; Organizations
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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.
  • April 2004
  • Article

The Impact of Operational Failures on Hospital Nurses and Their Patients

By: A. L. Tucker
Keywords: Operations; Failure; Health
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Tucker, A. L. "The Impact of Operational Failures on Hospital Nurses and Their Patients." Journal of Operations Management 22, no. 2 (April 2004).
  • winter 1994
  • Article

Negotiating NIMBYs: Learning from the Failure of the Massachusetts Siting Law

By: M. A. Wheeler
Keywords: Negotiation; Learning; Failure; Law; Massachusetts
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Wheeler, M. A. "Negotiating NIMBYs: Learning from the Failure of the Massachusetts Siting Law." Yale Journal on Regulation 11 (winter 1994): 241–291.
  • 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
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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.
  • 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
  • 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
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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.
  • 2017
  • Chapter

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; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Attitudes; Investment; Failure
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Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Innovation Policies." In Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Platforms. Vol. 37, edited by Jeffrey Furman, Annabelle Gawer, Brian Silverman, and Scott Stern, 37–80. Advances in Strategic Management. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
  • 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
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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.)
  • 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
  • March 28, 2014
  • Blog Post

What's Positive About Failure?

By: Christopher G. Myers
Keywords: Learning From Failure; Learning
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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/.
  • winter 1994
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The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems

By: M. C. Jensen
Keywords: System; Failure
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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).)
  • 1988
  • Chapter

The Critical Path for Change: Keys to Success and Failure in Six Companies

By: Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat and Bert Spector
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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
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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.
  • 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
Keywords: Government and Politics; Failure
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Hiatt, Shon R., and Wesley Sine. "Clear and Present Danger: The Failure of Political Institutions and New-venture Survival." Paper presented at the Informal Economy, Underground Employment: Social and Economic Issues, Paris, France, September 17, 2007.
  • September 2000
  • Article

Regulatory Free Cash Flow and the High Cost of Insurance Company Failures

By: Brian Hall
Keywords: Cash Flow; Cost; Insurance; Failure; Insurance Industry
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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.
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Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Elections, Banks and Agricultural Lending in India

By: Shawn A. Cole
Keywords: Failure; Voting; Banks and Banking; Agribusiness; India
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Cole, Shawn A. "Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Elections, Banks and Agricultural Lending in India." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1, no. 1 (January 2009): 219–50.
  • November 2018
  • Supplement

Triangulate (B) Post Mortem

By: Thomas Eisenmann and Lauren Barley
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Startups; Start-ups; Failure
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Eisenmann, Thomas, and Lauren Barley. "Triangulate (B) Post Mortem." Harvard Business School Supplement 819-080, November 2018.
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