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  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

then falling short of meeting it, then the failure rate is a whopping 90 to 95 percent. "Very few companies achieve their initial projections," says Ghosh. "Failure is the norm." Why Start-ups Fail Start-ups often fail... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

and financial management, and generating creative ways to identify and meet market opportunities. FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES As more people take the assessment and HBS develops a richer data set, scholars, educators, entrepreneurs and those who... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • October 2024
  • Teaching Plan

Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble

By: Lou Shipley and Stacy Straaberg
In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
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  • October 2024
  • Article

Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective

By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely
This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Culture; Gender; Power and Influence; Employees; Attitudes
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  • February 2023
  • Case

Seemore Meats & Veggies

By: Lou Shipley, Patricia Favreau and Mel Martin
Cara Nicoletti was an emerging food entrepreneur that had recently launched her first product, a sustainably sourced, vegetable-infused meat sausage. Brooklyn, New York City-based Seemore Meats & Veggies had seen promising signs of success in local markets and pockets... View Details
Keywords: Sales; Food; Logistics; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • June 2020 (Revised September 2020)
  • Case

Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (A)

By: Tsedal Neeley and John Masko
With the economy in a freefall, MetricStream is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash and struggling to make payroll. Several board members are threatening to quit. Others are pressing to sell the company even at dismally low valuations. It’s 2008 and lightning has... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Race; Gender; Leadership Style; Risk and Uncertainty; Change; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; California
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  • September 2019 (Revised October 2019)
  • Case

Bill Connors and The Farm, a Comcast NBCUniversal Innovation Hub (Powered by Boomtown)

By: Linda A. Hill and Eric Mankin
In 2017, Bill Connors, the President of Comcast’s Central Division, launched a startup accelerator in Comcast’s new Atlanta Regional headquarters. Comcast was America's largest cable and internet service provider, having built a profitable business bundling television... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Entrepreneur; Startup; Accelerator; Outsourcing; Hiring; Talent; Culture; Ecosystem; Digital; Leadership; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Media; Entertainment; Transformation; Atlanta
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  • March 2015
  • Case

Unilever: Combatting Global Food Waste

By: David F. Drake, Janice H. Hammond and Matthew G. Preble
The global consumer goods company Unilever was on pace to hit a number of aggressive targets by 2020 as part of the Unilever Sustainable Living Project, including a goal to halve the waste associated with the disposal of its products. Unilever's chief supply chain... View Details
Keywords: Food Waste; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Sustainable Supply Chains; Sustainable Operations; Organization Alignment; Environmental Sustainability; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Food; Agribusiness; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Forest Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; Europe; Asia; Africa; Latin America; India
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  • October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
  • Case

YES BANK: Mainstreaming Development into Indian Banking

By: Michael Chu and Namrata Arora
YES BANK, founded in 2003 and highly successful, has consistently been profitable meeting the Indian government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Private Equity; Microfinance; Investment; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Banking Industry; India
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  • 07 Dec 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management

    Innovating in Healthcare: Creating Breakthrough Services, Products, and Business Models

    Innovating in Healthcare offers effective approaches for designing, reworking, and implementing innovative healthcare services, products, and business models. It will help anyone working in healthcare service or product development, from hospitals to... View Details

    • 07 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

    hold practical implications for managers struggling with low engagement and inefficiency amid a lack of face time and continued pandemic stress. “One of the big insights from our work has been that, just because you went to the meeting... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 05 Oct 2023

    HBS Information Session in Cape Town

    Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to... View Details
    • Web

    Student Journey - Entrepreneurship

    students as you learn how to launch a new venture. Spend time in one of the Harvard Innovation Labs for opportunities to meet student entrepreneurs across Harvard. Explore HBS Initiatives — A great way to connect with potential... View Details
    • Web

    Skydeck - Alumni

    1993) on navigating the new world of video meetings and the interpersonal communication principles that transcend medium “Walking a Tightrope” Author Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986) on working class America’s economic fragility and how the... View Details
    • 09 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 9

    aligning strategic choices with organizational architecture. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410007-PDF-ENG Meeting the Diversity Challenge at PepsiCo: The Steve Reinemund Era Harvard Business School Case 410-024... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 25 Jan 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number

    propose a future rendezvous. “I could say let’s meet in one year, or I could say let’s meet in 365 days,” he says. “Now, if I say the latter one, it sounds pretty serious and precise. But if I say we’ll... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    Leadership - Faculty & Research

    organizations that can innovate time and again to address the challenges we face as a global community. Article Professionalism, Fiduciary Duty, and Health-Related Business Leadership By: Joshua D. Margolis Expanding fiduciary duty to leaders of health-related... View Details
    • 11 Feb 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

    done, who inspires others to do it in a critical moment. But I'm skeptical that in the countless meetings Jack Welch spent his career going to, in each one of these meetings it was the Jack Welch Show, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    unified financial structure which ideally is a unified profit and loss statement IPUs routinely measure outcomes, costs, care processes, and patient experience using a common platform, and accept joint accountability for results. The team regularly View Details