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Strategies for Learning from Failure
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany executives believe that all failure is bad (although it usually provides lessons)-and that learning from it is pretty straightforward. The author,... -
Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China
Strategy & Execution ResearchA comprehensive five-year study reveals a set of common mistakes. -
Selection Bias and the Perils of Benchmarking
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTo find the secrets of business success, what could be more natural than studying successful businesses? In fact, nothing could be more dangerous, warns... -
What a Real Apology Requires
Communication Digital ArticleGenuine introspection. -
Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleToday's asset-light disruptors pose an even greater threat. -
Seven Ways to Fail Big
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhat causes companies to fail spectacularly? A recent study of 750 of the biggest U.S. business disasters of the past 25 years reveals that seven popular... -
Finding Your Company's Second Act
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAccelerating technological improvements have changed the speed with which new innovations penetrate markets. Graphed over time, the market adoption of... -
When the CEO Dies, What Comes First: His Company or His Family? (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleShortly after the sudden death of her beloved husband, Priya Gowda learns that the company he built from a small dairy farm into a major Indian conglomerate... -
Why Haven Healthcare Failed
Global Business Digital ArticleDespite being backed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase, the company is disbanding less than three years after its launch. -
Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail
Business models Digital ArticleThe graveyard includes GE, Ford, Burberry, Nike, Lego, and P&G. -
If You Think Downsizing Might Save Your Company, Think Again
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFirms often downsize because it is seen as a way to reduce costs, adjust structures, and create leaner, more efficient workplaces. But new research indicates... -
Learn From Failure
Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor, describes strategies for analyzing workplace mistakes and producing more intelligent ones. -
Fatally Flawed
Take it a step further. Which would help you learn more about your innovation's chances for success: a razor held to your throat or a spreadsheet? -
Stop Kissing Frogs
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleCompanies attempting to grow by entering new businesses fail nine times out of 10. The problem isn't that big companies are too risk averse. Quite the... -
One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren't Compatible
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleWhen tight and loose cultures merge, they often clash. -
How to Figure Out What Your Side Hustle Should Be
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDon't fall in love with your first idea. -
The Scary Truth About Corporate Survival
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleNew research shows that companies really are failing faster than they used to: In particular, digital companies are far more vulnerable to quick imitation... -
Use Failure as an Opportunity to Reflect on Your Strengths
Difficult conversations Digital ArticleRejection hurts — but it isn’t the end.
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Proday: Calling the Right Play
Management Case Study8.95View Details Sarah Kunst knew the elements of a successful startup from her tenure at venture capital firms. In April 2018, however, her own app - Proday, a home fitness... -
Ransomware Attack at Springhill Medical Center
Management Case Study8.95View Details In July, 2019, Springhill Medical Center ("SMC") in Mobile, Alabama fell prey to a malicious ransomware attack that crippled the hospital's internal network... -
The Obama Stimulus
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the factors that led to the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and the impact the financial stimulus... -
Dynashears, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A senior loan officer is reviewing the recent performance of a company that has failed to repay its loan as scheduled. The failure results from a cyclical... -
Breaking Bad (the Rules): Argentina Defaults, Inflates (and Grows), 1997-2015
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In late October 2011, after losing 1 billion of dollar reserves in one month, the Argentine government began imposing a series of currency controls, limiting... -
MRC, Inc. (Consolidated)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A large diversified company must develop a strategy for a division whose performance has deteriorated due to its aging product. Alternatives range from... -
W.R. Grace & Co: Dealing with Asbestos Torts
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 in response to a flood of lawsuits... -
Managing a Public Image: Rob Thomas
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Rob Thomas describes some of the challenges he has faced as a white, middle-aged man who is managing director of a mid-size consulting firm where he is... -
The Facebook IPO Litigation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Despite its success in the social-networking space, Facebook Inc.'s May 2012 IPO was largely considered a failure. Facebook faced multiple lawsuits and... -
ACTC Customer Service Department
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Focuses on the young general manager of a new cable TV system and on its customer service department. Jeanne LaFrance, the general manager, has an uneasy... -
Cooptex: Reinventing Itself
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In August 2015, the managing director of the Tamil Nadu Handloom Weavers' Co-operative Society Ltd. (Co-optex), an Indian state handloom co-operative,... -
Into the Raging Sea: Final Voyage of the SS El Faro
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Captain Michael Davidson of the container ship SS El Faro was determined to make his planned shipping trip on time-but a hurricane was approaching his... -
Ransomware Attack at Colonial Pipeline Company
Management Case Study8.95View Details On the morning of May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline Company became aware that the company had been the victim of a malicious ransomware attack that had stolen... -
Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This case covers the rise and fall of Theranos, the company founded by Elizabeth Holmes in 2004 to revolutionize the blood testing industry by creating... -
Restructuring JAL
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Hideo Seto, the recently appointed chairman of the investment committee of the Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation, must decide whether to push... -
Quincy Apparel (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details The (B) case provides post-mortem analysis from Quincy's cofounders on why their startup failed and what they could have done differently. Explanations... -
Katerra (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details In May 2020, SoftBank executives, having invested nearly $2 billion in Katerra, decided the vision of an end-to-end, vertically-integrated construction... -
Paramount Equipment
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Paramount Equipment, Inc., based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a large manufacturer of cranes and compact construction equipment, aerial work platforms,... -
Classtivity: Payal's Pirouette
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details A few months after launching a new fitness technology product, the small staff of New York startup Classtivity gathers on a Saturday in April 2013 to... -
European Integration: Meeting the Competitiveness Challenge
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case discusses the origins and development of the European Integration process from the post-war period up to 2007, focusing particularly on the efforts...
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Strategies for Learning from Failure
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany executives believe that all failure is bad (although it usually provides lessons)-and that learning from it is pretty straightforward. The author,... -
Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Quincy Apparel, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching note for cases 815067 and 815095. -
Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China
Strategy & Execution ResearchA comprehensive five-year study reveals a set of common mistakes. -
Selection Bias and the Perils of Benchmarking
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTo find the secrets of business success, what could be more natural than studying successful businesses? In fact, nothing could be more dangerous, warns... -
Lehman Brothers: Too Big to Fail?, Slides
Global Business Digital ArticleSlides for case CU221. -
What a Real Apology Requires
Communication Digital ArticleGenuine introspection. -
Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleToday's asset-light disruptors pose an even greater threat. -
Subprime Crisis and Fair-Value Accounting, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching Note for 109-031.
