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- 2023
- Working Paper
Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?
By: Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra and Mark Shepard
The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured. We suggest that incremental insurance expansions focused on addressing market failures will propagate inefficiencies and... View Details
Baicker, Katherine, Amitabh Chandra, and Mark Shepard. "Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30854, January 2023.
- 22 Jul 2007
- Conference Presentation
Clear and Present Danger: The Failure of Political Institutions, Planning, and New-venture Survival
By: Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine
- June 2005
- Article
The Collapse of a Medical Labor Clearinghouse (and why such failures are rare)
By: C. Nicholas McKinney, Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth
McKinney, C. Nicholas, Muriel Niederle, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Collapse of a Medical Labor Clearinghouse (and why such failures are rare)." American Economic Review 95, no. 3 (June 2005): 878–889.
- Article
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is the Result of Its Own Failure to ‘Denazify’
By: Jeremy Friedman and Ingrid Burke Friedman
Friedman, Jeremy, and Ingrid Burke Friedman. "Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is the Result of Its Own Failure to ‘Denazify’." Jurist (April 5, 2022).
- Article
Confronting Failure: Antecedents and Consequences of Shared Beliefs About Failure in Organizational Work Groups
By: M. Cannon and A. Edmondson
Cannon, M., and A. Edmondson. "Confronting Failure: Antecedents and Consequences of Shared Beliefs About Failure in Organizational Work Groups." Special Issue on Shared Cognition. Journal of Organizational Behavior 22, no. 2 (March 2001).
- Article
Putin's Invasion of Ukraine: A Desperate Gamble to Reverse a String of Failures
By: Jeremy Friedman and Ingrid Burke Friedman
Friedman, Jeremy, and Ingrid Burke Friedman. "Putin's Invasion of Ukraine: A Desperate Gamble to Reverse a String of Failures." Jurist (March 2, 2022).
- January 2006 (Revised March 2006)
- Teaching Note
Advanced Competitive Strategy, Notes for Educators 5. Key Concepts in a Module on Strategic Failure
By: Jan W. Rivkin
- March 1990
- Article
Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms
By: R. Henderson and K. B. Clark
Henderson, R., and K. B. Clark. "Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms." Administrative Science Quarterly 35, no. 1 (March 1990): 9–30.
- Article
Market Failure and the Environmental Policies of Firms: Economic Rationales for 'Beyond Compliance' Behavior
By: F. L. Reinhardt
Reinhardt, F. L. "Market Failure and the Environmental Policies of Firms: Economic Rationales for 'Beyond Compliance' Behavior." Journal of Industrial Ecology 3, no. 1 (January 1999): 9–21.
- February 2024
- Case
Civica Rx: A Not-for-Profit Founded to Address Market Failures in the Generic Drug Industry
By: Leemore S. Dafny
Dafny, Leemore S. "Civica Rx: A Not-for-Profit Founded to Address Market Failures in the Generic Drug Industry." Harvard Business School Case 324-057, February 2024.
- Article
'Matter Battles': Cognitive Representations, Boundary Objects, and the Failure of Collaboration in Two Smart Cities
By: Tiona Zuzul
In this paper, I present a longitudinal study of two smart city projects that brought together experts from diverse knowledge domains. Both projects structured collaboration around the development of boundary objects that could integrate actors’ expertise. In both... View Details
Zuzul, Tiona. "'Matter Battles': Cognitive Representations, Boundary Objects, and the Failure of Collaboration in Two Smart Cities." Academy of Management Journal 62, no. 3 (June 2019): 739–764.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Moral Prospection: Cognitive Bias and the Failure to Predict Moral Backlash Toward an Organization
By: J. Lees
- October 2013
- Article
With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
By: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier
To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to identify empirically. We exploit... View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Ulrike Malmendier. "With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship." Review of Financial Studies 26, no. 10 (October 2013): 2411–2452. (Earlier versions distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 16918 and Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 11-108.)
- September–October 2015
- Article
Crash and Burn: Why Silicon Valley's Notion That Failure Leads to Success Won't Work for the Rest of the World
By: Debora L. Spar
In the frenzied hills of Silicon Valley, going bust is common. Research attests that close to half of start-ups supported by venture capital chew through most or all of their backers' money and that the majority never achieve their projected returns on investment. But... View Details
Spar, Debora L. "Crash and Burn: Why Silicon Valley's Notion That Failure Leads to Success Won't Work for the Rest of the World." Foreign Policy 214 (September–October 2015).
- 13 May 2025
- News
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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details
- 27 Jul 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Ulrike Malmendier
- 2016
- Chapter
Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation
By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Keywords: Innovation; Investing; Abandonment Option; Failure Tolerance; Risk and Uncertainty; Technological Innovation; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship
Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation." Chap. 1 in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16, edited by William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 1–23. National Bureau of Economic Research, and University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- August 2024
- Background Note