Escalation Of Commitment - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2022
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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

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15 Jul 2020
Blog Post

From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

taken the time to learn so much about me (even before meeting me!) spoke volumes about the level of commitment HBS professors have to their students. There were many other moments this past year that made me... View Details

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the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. While tackling the challenges in the crowded supplements and energy drinks market, Martin is committed to investing 20% of... View Details

18 Mar 2016
Blog Post

What is an IFC?

An IFC (Immersive Field Course) is a class for second year students where the vast majority of content consists of an on-the-ground assignment to learn about and advise on real problems. I enrolled in an IFC... View Details

02 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." Good goal? A: It was excellent for motivating behavior. It... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

making around culture and values. “We're very committed to having a modern, diverse workforce and so we're embracing and celebrating hybrid work so that we can give people the flexibility that allows those groups, particularly women and... View Details

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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

of nitrogen-based fertilizers and clearing of forests for agricultural uses, have also increased greenhouse gas emissions. Food and agriculture is the second largest contributor to climate change. [26] This... View Details

11 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

Kyle Leahy (MBA 2011) stepped into the CEO role of Glossier in May 2022 ready to take the brand to new heights. Since its founding in 2014, Glossier had disrupted the beauty industry, created a powerful community-driven brand, and was... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

we were collecting data as events were happening." As it turns out, the actions companies took during those first 90 days of the pandemic depended not only on their cash on hand, but how committed they were... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile is in the midst of a ten-year study looking at, among other things, how time pressure in a corporate setting affects employee creativity. She recently presented early findings and an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts

March 24, 2014
Article

Like a Boss: How Corporate Negotiators Would Handle Nuclear Talks With Iran

By: James K. Sebenius

While the Obama team deserves high marks for launching the interim talks, its approach doesn't sell the upside of a comprehensive deal persuasively enough to transform more Iranian skeptics into active supporters—a necessary condition for success if there is an... View Details

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01 Dec 2023
News

A More Accommodating Approach

Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

04 Sep 2017
Blog Post

HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered

this podcast was also an opportunity to open up and share my story. So I decided to commit the final section of each episode to just that, revealing the slip-ups I had made, what kept me up at night, and how... View Details

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

strategy and operations (or tactics) are both important but they are different. The normal course of events is for companies to focus on day-to-day operations and short-term problem solving. Management meetings focus on fighting fires and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2023
News

3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)

hands-on than in previous generations of technology. We’ve worked with seven of the leading AI companies to establish voluntary commitments on safety View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

rushing around,” Whillans says. “These fun things will start to feel like obligations, and you’ll get exhausted trying to keep up.” Instead, build slack time into your day—small buffers of 15 minutes or longer between work appointments or... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Jun 2021
News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

underway. When Jochen Zeitz joined Harley Davidson as CEO in the midst of the pandemic, he was eager to find ways in which to engage the company’s employees. A mutual friend introduced Stavros and Zeitz, who is a cofounder View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

change the whole ant farm. But such a construction, those interviewed for this article agree, erroneously leads to a bimodal way of looking at something that should really be evaluated on two separate scales. "Everybody has got a... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young

09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

discrete change,” says Raffaella Sadun, the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a co-author of the new study. “The notion that we will go back to a point in... View Details