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  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

@Soldiers Field

pitching. Organizers suggested drinking water rather than Red Bull, but noted "Medieval armor is permitted." Bert Twaalfhoven (MBA 1954) offered guests of the HBS Entrepreneurship Club a personal perspective on the positive power of View Details
Keywords: FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 07 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations

for employees to openly discuss issues around diversity and inclusion can connect back to goals of effective collaboration that produce exceptional products and services. Furthermore, setting the stage is also about reframing failure. When leaders reframe View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • October 2019 (Revised June 2020)
  • Supplement

Airbus vs. Boeing (M): MAX 8 Disasters (July 2019)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case describes the October 2018 and March 2019 crashes of Boeing MAX 8 jets, which together killed over 300 passengers. The planes involved in both crashes shared a problem with a software system called MCAS, which Boeing had revamped at the last minute prior to... View Details
Keywords: Airbus; Boeing; Product Development; Product Design; Air Transportation; Projects; Competition; Safety; Failure; Air Transportation Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Europe
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  • September 2019 (Revised December 2019)
  • Supplement

Anthony Soohoo: Retrospection on Dot & Bo

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Allison M. Ciechanover and George Gonzalez
The case describes the final year of the once-promising furniture e-tailer, Dot & Bo, that included a challenging fundraising market, troubles with logistics and operations, and a team tragedy. The founder looks back at the experience and shares his learnings about... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Furnishing; Leadership; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Failure; Learning; E-commerce; United States
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  • November – December 2009
  • Article

Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company

By: Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom
Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning linked to the company's business strategy and the real day-to-day challenges facing managers. The experience of Sweden-based industrial... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Programs; Learning; Failure; Business Strategy; Organizations; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Design; Sweden
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  • 22 Jun 2021
  • News

Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada

will require support for women at every level of the labor force. “We really are at a turning point for the global economy,” Collenette adds. “Post-pandemic, either we fashion a world where women take their rightful place in every seat at every table or we fail. But,... View Details
  • 05 May 2023
  • News

Fail Better

Achievement Award recipients to share a failure they experienced and what they learned from it. Their stories show how the "F" word can be an integral part of success, shaping who we are and the organizations where we work. Photos by... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Chad Hufsey

before we were sure we were ready, and when Harvard called this time, I answered. My life going forward is about one thing: living life – without fear of failure – to its fullest potential. Striving to never again make a decision that... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Hoop Dreams

Boston entrepreneur Steve Belkin (MBA 1971) first tried to buy an NBA team — the Boston Celtics — twenty years ago. That attempt ended in failure for the founder and chairman of Trans National Group, a marketing and investment company. As... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

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
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management

of their actions. He came to see their criminal decisions not as failures of reasoning but as failures of intuition. “Morals go out the window when the pressure is on,” Steven Hoffenberg, who ran a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers

    James G. Treybig

    Treybig was a pioneer in the early days of computer development. In 1976, his company introduced the first fail-safe, no fault minicomputer at a time when system failures and breakdowns were commonplace. By stringing together a series of... View Details
    Keywords: Computers & Electronics
    • Mar 2012
    • Report

    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
    • July 2019 (Revised November 2022)
    • Case

    Momofuku Ando and the Globalization of Noodles

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Megumi Takada
    This case examines the entrepreneurial career of Momofuku Ando, the Taiwanese-born Japanese entrepreneur who pioneered instant boodles with his Chicken Ramen (1958) and Cup Noodle (1971) products. It begins by reviewing his many previous unsuccessful ventures,... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Failure; Success; Globalization; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan
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    • November 2009
    • Article

    Finding Missing Markets (and a Disturbing Epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

    By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan
    Farmers may grow crops for local consumption despite more profitable export options. DrumNet, a Kenyan NGO that helps small farmers adopt and market export crops, conducted a randomized trial to evaluate its impact. DrumNet services increased production of export crops... View Details
    Keywords: Export Crop; Field Experiment; Food Safety Standards; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Trade; Profit; Marketing; Standards; Failure; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Kenya; European Union
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    • 01 Dec 2018
    • News

    Lifelong Learning about Leadership

    Business Administration, created the three-day course to lay the groundwork for participants to examine their individual paths to becoming authentic leaders and gain a better sense of their purpose and legacy. “It was refreshing to hear about the successes and View Details
    • 15 Nov 2016
    • News

    Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders

    two reasons for management failures to heed shareholder proposals for greater action on ESG issues: processes within the organization may not be sufficiently developed, and performance incentives may be misaligned. “I went back to the... View Details
    • Web

    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
    • Profile

    Spencer Copeland

    expectations for the next stage because I've learned to dream even bigger. While here, I've been introduced to resources and a community that will help me achieve whatever I put my mind to. I'm not scared of failure and view future... View Details
    • 26 Nov 2019
    • News

    Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation

    debate and discourse without recrimination. Creative agility—learning how to experiment quickly and cheaply, then iterate, get feedback, and adjust. Creative resolution––curating all of the ideas that have been assembled and determining which should be implemented.... View Details