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- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
only 14% in the last quarter of 2008 but contracted nearly as much as new lending for restructuring (LBOs, M&A, share repurchases) relative to the peak of the credit boom. After the failure of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 there... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
811-036 This note describes the payoff structure of investment in individual venture capital-backed companies and in venture capital-portfolios. Venture capital investments are characterized by high failure rate (over 50%) and a small... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
the topic based on his own experience as an outdoor wilderness instructor, an area in which the cost of failure is too high for people to learn only from their own experience. “Trial and error is not the way you want to learn rock... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-047.pdf Financing Risk and Innovation Authors:Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract Technological revolutions and waves of creative destruction are associated with new ventures and the destruction of mature firms, but also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Emerging Challenges for Business and HR Leaders Authors:Gilbert Probst, Sebastian Raisch, and Michael Tushman Publication:Organizational Dynamics 40, no. 4 (2011) Abstract Large firms are prone to failure in the face of changing industry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
strategic marketing for Memphis-based FedEx, attributes these failures not to the technology per se, but to a "lack of recognition of the degree to which [IT implementation] requires process change, cultural change, and brute-force... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
to nurture talent is legendary. Just about anybody who is anybody in jazz can trace some lineage back to "Miles University." Finally, the process that led to Kind of Blue is an example of pushing boundaries and taking experimentation right up to the edge of... View Details
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
students and preparing them for dead-end, less desirable jobs. Pursuing them amounts to personal or familial failure for some people. That said, there are some interesting efforts to elevate vocational education at the local and state... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
excites, and pushes the team or, you could say, choreographs an output that (moves) the company towards the vision." The mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful leaders depends on the timing and circumstances... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
chance to thrive. Drawing on more than a decade of researching smashing successes and painful failures alike, Wasserman walks readers through the dilemmas that plague and challenge most new entrepreneurs, starting with pre-founding career... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
To other functional departments such as finance and operations, the sales and marketing functions look alike. After all, they are both "outward looking," focused on the customer and the market. But, creating a strong marketing and sales View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
strikes. It's as if doing so is tantamount to admitting failure as a leader. This tension is not necessarily surprising. Fortune 500 CEOs are some of the most driven, results-oriented people on the planet. Because their jobs compel them... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
research, you identified 209 platform failures between 1995 and 2015 and about 45 successful firms for the same period. What are drivers of success? Yoffie: The most important driver of success is network effects. Network effects create... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
corporate strategy, Wells has learned that the seeds of failure are often planted years before they sprout, and only by overcoming complacency and constantly adapting to the changing competitive environment can companies prosper in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
declaring they have told the truth. In 2014, the White House assembled a cross-agency group called the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, tasked with improving the efficacy of federal programs by leveraging the findings of behavioral science. The aforementioned study... View Details
- December 1989
- Supplement
People Express Decline: Interview with Don Burr, Video
By: Michael Beer
Presents an interview with Don Burr, CEO, as he reviews his account of how and why People Express failed as a corporation and was ultimately sold to Continental Airlines. View Details
Beer, Michael. "People Express Decline: Interview with Don Burr, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 890-508, December 1989.
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
larger organization. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-upside-to-large-competitors/ December 2014 Small Group Research Team Reflexivity as an Antidote to Team Information-Processing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2023
- Teaching Plan
Into the Raging Sea: Final Voyage of the SS El Faro
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Mel Martin
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 321-014. View Details
- July 2018
- Teaching Note
Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail
By: Ryan Raffaelli
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