Business Failures - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2023
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'Care in Every Drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila Water (B)

By: Debora L. Spar, Paul Healy, Tricia Peralta and Julia Comeau

Since 1834, eight generations of the Ayala family have used their conglomerate to fund nation-building projects in the Philippines, including investments in tramcars, telecommunications, hospitals, and schools. In 1997, Ayala’s subsidiary, Manila Water, took control of... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Economic Growth; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Natural Resources; Crisis Management; Failure; Privatization; Social Issues; Urban Development; Adaptation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Philippines

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16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library

2008." HBS No. 309-093. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2009 (revised 2011). Previous The Economist , October 2008. © The Economist Newspaper Limited, London (October 4, 2008). The Economist , September 2018. © The Economist... View Details

22 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)

When I decided to attend Harvard Business School, I wasn’t entirely sure what my next step would be, but I knew it was time for a change. As a financial analyst in investment banking, I realized that, while the job paid well, the hours... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 May 2009
What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

latitude," and insuring "no negative consequences" associated with failure of innovative ideas. The right kind of leadership—capable of building trust, the willingness to take risk, and establishing a culture tolerant of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Jun 2003
News

Books

Revival of the Fittest by Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School Press) Your company has been outperforming competitors for years, your charismatic CEO was just featured on the cover of a national business... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2012
News

The School of Life

led to a McKinsey Award–winning 2010 Harvard Business Review article. Now, with the help of former HBR editor Karen Dillon (who conceived of and edited the 2010 article) and his former student James Allworth (MBA 2010), Christensen has... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

Alumni Books The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the... View Details

05 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’

Company's Deep Smarts offers a roadmap for ensuring that critical knowledge remains in the organization. This excerpt focuses on the executive onboarding practice at Bank of America. Dorothy Leonard is the William J. Abernathy Professor of View Details

Keywords: Re: Dorothy A. Leonard; Banking

04 Mar 2015
What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

regarding wages ." Gerald Nanninga concluded that, "The problem with universally mandated rules of business (be it wages, hours, or whatever) is that it limits strategic options At least with the laissez faire approach, there is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

07 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 7

dimension of prior experience is whether the outcome was successful or unsuccessful. While empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2017
News

Facing the Board

It may have been a year—or 50—since the six dozen Harvard Business School alumni gathered in an Aldrich Hall classroom Monday morning had dug into a case study. However, once they got over the initial fear of being cold called by... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom

Profile

Dan Lennox-Choate

had not had a failure like this before—it was tough to deal with," says Daniel. But as a consequence of this failure, Daniel changed his leadership style. "I realized we were never going to micromanage our way out of our... View Details

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1.1.1 MBA Program Guidance on HBS Community Values | MBA

1.1.1 MBA Program Guidance on HBS Community Values 1.1 HBS Community Values Harvard Business School’s statement on Community Values lays out the principles that enable us to realize our mission of educating leaders who make a difference... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis

Global Failures Create a “Lodestar” for HBS Research and Teaching From new cases to new courses and research projects, the HBS faculty’s response to the global financial crisis has been “quite extraordinary,” says Professor Joe Badaracco,... View Details

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

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SMS Terms - HBS Online

your use of the Services is at all times subject to the Harvard Business School Online Terms of Use Terms of Use which incorporate these SMS Terms. If you elect to receive Messages, we will send you recurring Messages to the mobile number... View Details

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Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom

Trumpeter Miles Davis is heralded as one the most influential jazz musicians ever, helping to drive forward major evolutions in the genre. While he has inspired scores of jazz musicians over the decades, a different audience can also learn a lot from him: View Details

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Business School professors Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan, engages with leading health care providers in the U.S. and around the world to measure and manage patient-level costs over complete cycles of care for a variety of medical... View Details

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

of Buenos Aires’s population was foreign born, and it could be regarded as one of the world’s greatest global cities.” Today, the city is a decaying shadow of itself and Argentina as a whole has fallen prey to ineffective institutions, inconsistent government... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller

ever offered me a normal job. Obviously, it would be much nicer to be the chairman or CEO of a high-performing business that floats gently upward. I do what I do because the river carries you in a certain direction.” And there’s an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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