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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
book to be published next year. Bilmes cautions that the $92 billion figure is highly conservative for several reasons, above all because the team attributed zero value to households that failed to return the research survey (even though the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
for Learning from Failure Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 4 (April 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/04/strategies-for-learning-from-failure/ar/1 Give... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
in view of the evidence of failures in U.S. corporate governance. U.S. legislators and others have become more prone to unpredictable and sometimes unilateralist measures. The sudden removal of foreign-owned companies from the S&P 500... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
endorsements of the umbrella organizations. The big contracts did not come as quickly as the founders had expected, and in early 2001, the company was no longer in business. GovWorks's failure is a textbook example of the perils of... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
evidence that links organizational success or failure to “primal leadership.” They argue that a leader’s emotions are contagious and must resonate energy and enthusiasm if an organization is to thrive. Cultivating Communities of Practice:... View Details
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
individuals using the tools?" Rather the problem for many of you is management itself, ranging from lack of transparency (Shantha Yahanpath. Bruce Watson) to a failure to support "whistle blowing" (Ratnaja Gogula), as well... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human, a groundbreaking report that pushed the issue of medical errors into the public spotlight. That we all make mistakes was certainly nothing new: Operational failures occur... View Details
- March 1990 (Revised March 1992)
- Case
New York Against AIDS (A): The Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Advertising Campaign
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sohel Karim
Describes the background leading to the development of an advertising campaign to help prevention of AIDS in New York City. The three television networks, however, for various reasons reject the campaign, to the dismay of Saatchi & Saatchi executives. View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Growth and Development; Health Care and Treatment; Marketing Communications; Failure; Advertising Industry; New York (city, NY)
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Sohel Karim. "New York Against AIDS (A): The Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Advertising Campaign." Harvard Business School Case 590-036, March 1990. (Revised March 1992.)
- August 2009 (Revised August 2009)
- Case
Intel NBI: Radio-Frequency Identification
By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
The Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) group was a start-up that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives. It sought initially to develop and sell a high performance Rf fast read rate module targeted at fixed position readers that might be found in loading docks... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Structure; Failure; Diversification; Integration; Semiconductor Industry
Shih, Willy C., and Thomas Thurston. "Intel NBI: Radio-Frequency Identification." Harvard Business School Case 610-027, August 2009. (Revised August 2009.)
- Portrait Project
Evan Baehr
Despite living in an age of deep connectedness—of social networks, smartphones, and Starbucks—we are often alone. We desire to be known—we yearn for affirmation that we matter. The irony is that the people around us are extraordinary—yet often unknown. Their stories of... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
managers can succeed for reasons not of their own making—and we often learn far more from our failures than our successes. Failure and bouncing back from failure can be... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
Advances in Strategic Management Innovation Policies By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation but has not examined how this... View Details
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
themselves to loans they cannot afford." Elizabeth Doty commented, "The promise that individual actions lead to societal gain also means that individual failures of judgment lead to societal risk and pain, as we are seeing . This is why I... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 May 2013
- Blog Post
Launching into “career discovery” mode
the information I’d provided, he felt that I might feel a sense of failure if, in four years’ time, I wasn’t deeply engaged in working to further education-related goals. I realized, in that moment, that his statement was very true—I will... View Details
- Profile
Micah Macfarlane
market failures for climate change but less response from society. "We are just worse at thinking about climate impacts, which feel further away than they really are. I want to be part of the solution." Because so many clean... View Details
- Profile
Fangfang Wang
Brookings Institution and Mars. After four years with the latter, she became intrigued by start-up opportunities in education. Despite Mars' efforts to recruit the best university graduates available for its management trainee program, "our hiring 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
- 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
- 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
- February 2025
- Case
Fly, Fix, Fly at True Anomaly
By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Jim Matheson, Fiona Murray and David Allen
How should companies learn from failure? Founded by four U.S. Space Force warfighters, the tough tech startup True Anomaly wanted to compete with major defense contractors to supply the U.S. Department of Defense with satellites and software that could help protect... View Details