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David Kang

started businesses has made the idea much more approachable to me." Thinking many steps ahead David's TEM (The Entrepreneurial Manager) class, part of the first year's Required Curriculum, has profoundly influenced the way he thinks about his future. "We read... View Details
  • November 2022 (Revised March 2023)
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OneSmart

By: Nien-he Hsieh, Meg Rithmire and Shu Lin
At the end of 2021, Xi “Steve” Zhang was facing an existential crisis for himself and his business. OneSmart was a premium educational company founded in 2008 offering K-12 afterschool tutoring for students nationwide under a number of brands. The company was founded... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Failure; Education Industry; China
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  • June 2011 (Revised January 2013)
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Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations

By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and David Lane
Chris Exline founded Home Essentials, a furniture rental business targeted toward expatriates, in Singapore but rapidly moved the base of operations to Hong Kong. The company was highly successful in Singapore and Hong Kong and then pursued rapid global expansion.... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Renting or Rental; Corporate Governance; Global Strategy; Failure; Singapore; Hong Kong
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

results. An additional underlying theme of the course is on personal failure , highlighting the major missteps and early career challenges that leaders fall into. The course asks students to evaluate their own blind spots and shortcomings... View Details
  • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 19 Oct 2017
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Innovative Finance for the Common Good

Whether it's a vaccine or green bond, drought insurance, pay-as-you-go financing for solar electricity in Kenya, or discounted metro cards in New York, innovative finance is as much about incentives and sound decision making as it is about money; when it works,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2024
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The Bookshelf: Try As One Might

A professor of management at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and a leading expert on design thinking, Jeanne Liedtka (MBA 1981) helps people make better decisions through experimentation. The concept sounds simple enough in the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; experimentation; innovation; process
  • Mar 2012
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A Jobs Compact for America's Future

What's good for individual U.S. companies is no longer automatically good for business nationwide, for U.S. workers, or for the economy. That, coupled with the failure of business, government, and other institutions to engage in... View Details
  • February 1999 (Revised June 1999)
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Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (Abridged)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Jeffrey L. Bradach, Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty
Business unit manager Tom Hutton has empowered a group of hourly workers to purchase grit blast equipment for two cells. The capital purchase decision runs into some problems when the two cells fail to reach an agreement on which equipment to purchase. A rewritten... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Decision Making; Labor; Managerial Roles; Failure; Problems and Challenges; Power and Influence; Hardware
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  • 30 Dec 2013
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Most Popular Articles of 2013

Advertising Authors Pavel Kireyev, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta find that popular Web metrics do not adequately capture consumer behavior online and lead marketers to create less effective marketing budgets. Organizational Factors that Contribute to Operational View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9

larger organization. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-upside-to-large-competitors/ December 2014 Small Group Research Team Reflexivity as an Antidote to Team Information-Processing Failures By: Schippers, Michaéla... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life

fighter-pilot tests. But if finding the right stuff is a good way to identify top talent, why is it so common to see executives with a successful track record in one company coming into another company with great fanfare, only to be quickly dubbed a View Details
Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management
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Mark Gundersen

of about two-hundred case discussions so far and have been able to see trends: what makes a good management team; what distinguishes wise decisions; which type of strategies tend to succeed." "I've learned as much or more from View Details
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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
  • 01 Mar 2009
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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
  • 01 Mar 2010
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What Happened to Leadership?

IMMELT: A prescription to fix failures at the top. Sgt. Vincent Fusco/Usma For a speech on “Reviving American Leadership,” General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82) chose a discerning audience: the corps of cadets at the U.S. Military... View Details
Keywords: Management; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 02 Dec 2019
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How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

billion for SpaceX) from NASA. One can only imagine the pressure under which developers were working at Boeing. The result? A failure to reach its destination, the International Space Station. While the cause is under investigation, early... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation
  • 01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

financial institutions are too big to fail? There are two valid reasons for bailing out a financial institution. First is to protect the system for processing payments, like checks, because that system is critical to the operation of the U.S. economy. Second is to... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • January 2021 (Revised March 2022)
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Into the Raging Sea: Final Voyage of the SS El Faro

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Mel Martin
Captain Michael Davidson of the container ship SS El Faro was determined to make his planned shipping trip on time—but a hurricane was approaching his intended path. To succeed, Davidson and his fellow officers must plot a course to avoid the storm in the face of... View Details
Keywords: Power Dynamics; Management; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Failure; Groups and Teams; Rank and Position; Decision Choices and Conditions; Shipping Industry; United States
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  • January 2023
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Kavnia Coffee

By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Kumba Sennaar, Sarah Mehta and Jiyoon Han
Case on a coffee hardware startup where a series of experiments and pivots led founder to conclude that the venture was no longer viable. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Startups; Failure; Business Exit or Shutdown; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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2.3.8 Honesty | MBA

2.3.8 Honesty HBS expects that all students will be honest and forthcoming in their dealings with the members of this community. Further, HBS expects that students will answer truthfully questions put to them by an officer of the University. View Details