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- 06 Aug 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India
- Winter 2022
- Article
Vaccines and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Failure and Success
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alex Tabarrok
The losses from the global COVID-19 pandemic have been staggering—trillions in economic costs, on top of significant losses of life, health, and well-being. The world made significant and successful investments in vaccines to mitigate the pandemic, yet there were... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccination; Market Design; Health Pandemics; Loss; Outcome or Result; Opportunities; Crisis Management
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Alex Tabarrok. "Vaccines and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Failure and Success." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 38, no. 4 (Winter 2022): 719–741.
- 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
Cole, Shawn A. "Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-001, July 2008.
- 2006
- Working Paper
Was NAFTA Necessary? Trade Policy and Relative Economic Failure since 1982
By: Noel Maurer
Maurer, Noel. "Was NAFTA Necessary? Trade Policy and Relative Economic Failure since 1982." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-043, March 2006.
- 14 Feb 2024
- News
Intelligent Failure Is the Right Kind of Wrong: Amy C Edmondson
- June 2007 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Bert Twaalfhoven: The Successes and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur
Bert Twaalfhoven (70; HBS '54) is faced with two offers to acquire the manufacturing holding company he had built up over 40 years. Despite the attractive price, which would net Twaalfhoven and his family $70 million, he is reluctant to sell the company because his... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Management Succession; Manufacturing Industry
Isenberg, Daniel J., and Mark Rennella. "Bert Twaalfhoven: The Successes and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 807-165, June 2007. (Revised July 2009.)
- 25 Mar 2025
- News
A Key To Dealing With Setbacks And Failures In Negotiation
- January 13, 2022
- Article
How to Build a Life: How to Succeed at Failure
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: How to Succeed at Failure." The Atlantic (January 13, 2022).
- May 1984
- Article
Interpreting the Statistical Failures of Some Rational Expectations Macroeconomic Models
By: J. J. Rotemberg
Keywords: Macroeconomics
Rotemberg, J. J. "Interpreting the Statistical Failures of Some Rational Expectations Macroeconomic Models." American Economic Review 74, no. 2 (May 1984): 188–193.
- December 2018
- Technical Note
The First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics and Market Failures
By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Robert Scherf
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.
- 06 Apr 2018
- News
Share stories of failure to defang ‘malicious envy’ at work
- winter 1994
- Article
Negotiating NIMBYs: Learning from the Failure of the Massachusetts Siting Law
By: M. A. Wheeler
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
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.
- March 28, 2014
- Blog Post
What's Positive About Failure?
By: Christopher G. Myers
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/.
- April 2004
- Article
The Impact of Operational Failures on Hospital Nurses and Their Patients
By: A. L. Tucker
Tucker, A. L. "The Impact of Operational Failures on Hospital Nurses and Their Patients." Journal of Operations Management 22, no. 2 (April 2004).
- 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
- 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