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- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
many times your cofounding team will disagree on things—from product and hiring decisions to operating procedures and a fundraising strategy—and how you process these decisions together is fundamental to a healthy cofounding relationship.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
Dulcie Madden (A)—Growth or Exit?
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Christopher Payton and Shweta Bagai
This is part of a three-case series that follows Dulcie Madden's journey as a founder over five years. Case (A) is about managing growth and cash flow; Case (B) is about the exit decision and conditions on a sale; Case (C) shows Madden dealing with adversity and the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Family; Family Conflicts; Founders' Agreements; Growth And Development; Hardware; VC; Scaling; Start-up; Female Ceo; Risk Assessment; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Equity; Cash Flow; Success; Failure; Acquisition; Business Model; Information Technology; Valuation; Family and Family Relationships; Information Infrastructure; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Ghosh, Shikhar, Christopher Payton, and Shweta Bagai. "Dulcie Madden (A)—Growth or Exit?" Harvard Business School Case 820-052, October 2019. (Revised January 2020.)
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
individuals or groups have the right to make which decisions frequently carries a high cost for the organization, Jensen notes, whether through duplicated or counterproductive efforts, or through the failure of the parties to act.... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
Dysfunctions of a Team can be helpful, but mastering the art of hiring takes practice. From 50 to 100 employees. This is a transition period in which you may sit in on candidate reviews for key hires, when the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 22 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make
Steinberg, and Ann Raldow, and medical physicist Nzhde Agazaryan. A spectrum of close calls The research team wanted to understand the role of psychological safety—defined as “the shared belief that interpersonal risk-taking is safe”—in... View Details
- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
levels, including that of the individual. We adapt by listening to and heeding customers. We adapt by delegating authority, often to teams operating at the lowest levels of the organization. We adapt by tracking, responding to, and even... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
The sure recipe for failure is to suck it up and try to do it all.—Isabel Parlett, Parlance Training Let's begin with what you shouldn't do: "The sure recipe for failure is to suck it up and try to do... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
issues in business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth as well as patterns of success and failure in that process. There now exists, after a lag, a compelling stream of research focused on the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
than children—she started to think more seriously about the value proposition. Spies teamed up with Christine Busaba (MBA 2019) to launch Maev in March 2020 as a direct-to-consumer (DTC) raw dog food company. Business has tripled every... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
YEAR) Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits 3 Technologies that Will Change the World Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Avoiding Startup Failure DJ DiDonna Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 B2B Sales and Distribution (also listed under... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
heat shielding. But most importantly, they’ve accepted that failures are actually part of building a space program, which is something NASA sort of didn’t accept, even though they had some. Their big rocket launch recently had what they... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
group. While canvassers' visits increased turnout by 1.8 percentage points, candidates had no impact on participation. Candidates increased their own vote share in the precincts they canvassed, but only at the expense of their running mates. This suggests that their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
contributions—regarding which greater team heterogeneity reduces the likelihood of equal splitting. Second, we show that these same founder characteristics also significantly affect the share premium in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
complete tax documents for submission to HBS. Failure to supply these forms within 30 days from notification of award will lead to forfeiture of your GO Fellowship award. We suggest you consult your tax professional for questions about... View Details
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
gas regulations are more likely to share greenhouse gas emissions levels and reduction targets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-026.pdf The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for Knowledge Use in Organizational Work View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2015 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail
In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his innovation and success in shaping the retail image at Target and Apple, introduced dramatic departures... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development; Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Organizational Behavior Modification; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Situation or Environment; Failure; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Competition; Retail Industry; United States
Narayandas, Das, Joshua D. Margolis, and Ryan Raffaelli. "Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail." Harvard Business School Case 516-016, July 2015. (Revised September 2017.)
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
the Triarc team used. In most corporations, brand marketing sounds like a form of warfare. Consumers are targeted, campaigns are planned, products are positioned and launched, waves of advertising are flighted, and then market research... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
frequently invoke—is that everything can look like a failure in the middle. Leaders can’t just launch a project or a venture and assume it will all go according to plan. Especially if it’s new and different, which is true of every... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
in which you invest. An organization's norms and values aren't formed through speeches but through actions and team learning. Strong cultures have teeth. They are much more than slogans and empty promises. Some organizations choose to... View Details
- Web
Business Insights Blog | HBS Online
Author Staff tag CLIMB Dynamic Teaming Leadership Management Failure is often seen as a setback. But if approached strategically, it becomes a tool for growth. By mastering the art of failing well, View Details