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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,... -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
Kodak's Downfall Wasn't About Technology
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
Marketing Myopia
Business failures Magazine ArticleSustained growth depends on how broadly you define your business—and how carefully you gauge your customers’ needs. -
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... -
Learn From Failure
Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor, describes strategies for analyzing workplace mistakes and producing more intelligent ones. -
How to Make Better Predictions When You Don't Have Enough Data
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleA different way to teach algorithms. -
Why We're Seeing So Many Corporate Scandals
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA combination of digital technology, flat corporate structures, and unethical leaders. -
Here’s Why Strategy Chiefs Succeed or Fail
Leadership and managing people ResearchBased on a study of 55 strategists. -
Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn't
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleSetting up a research hub is easy. Setting it up to succeed is harder. -
IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHowever, new technological threats mean it should. -
Why Do So Many Strategies Fail?
Strategy Magazine ArticleLeaders focus on the parts rather than the whole. -
Set Up to Fail: Economist Paul Ormerod on Strategy and Extinction
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost organizations bend over backward to avoid failure. They shouldn't, says economist Paul Ormerod. History shows that failure and success are inherently... -
Why Haven Healthcare Failed
Business and society Digital ArticleDespite being backed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase, the company is disbanding less than three years after its launch. -
A Study of More Than 250 Platforms Reveals Why Most Fail
Communication Digital ArticleIt's hard to succeed if you don't earn users' trust. -
Sustainability's Faustian Dilemma
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleWe all remember the SunChips Episode of 2010. Frito-Lay introduced bio-degradable packaging for SunChips in March, and was surprised to see sales of the... -
The Overvaluation Trap
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn 2007, Chuck Prince, then the CEO of Citigroup, made a notorious comment about the subprime mortgage market: "As long as the music's playing, you've... -
Why Hard-Nosed Executives Should Care About Management Theory
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTheory often gets a bum rap among managers because it's associated with the word "theoretical," which connotes "impractical." But it shouldn't. Because... -
The Two Big Reasons That Digital Transformations Fail
Change management ResearchResults from a study of 1,350 companies. -
What a Real Apology Requires
Communication Digital ArticleGenuine introspection.
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Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details James Tallest analyzed the opportunity to invest in a distressed portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring one or more non-performing... -
The Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers
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Successes and Failures of Amazon's Growth Strategies: Causes and Consequences
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details On 30 May 2017, Amazon shares traded at a record high - above $1,000 - surpassing the share price of Google parent Alphabet. Started as an online bookstore... -
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... -
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... -
Classic Fixtures & Hardware Company, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Classic Fixtures & Hardware Company is a nationally-known manufacturer and distributor of kitchen and bathroom fixtures and trim, as well as lock sets... -
Hyflux Ltd in Financial Distress
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In May 2018, Singapore's publicly-listed Hyflux Ltd, which was once the world's fifth largest desalination plant supplier, filed for court-supervised... -
Purity Steel Corporation, 2012, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Managers introduce a new performance evaluation system based on sales growth and return-on-investment (ROI). A branch manager wonders whether his new... -
Ron Johnson: Retail at Target, Apple, and J.C. Penney
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details 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... -
Baroo (A): Pet Concierge
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Baroo CEO Lindsay Hyde was facing unrest from the board of her pet services startup in August 2017. One board member (and lead investor) was alarmed that... -
BANEX and the No Pago Movement (A)
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Tata Nano's Execution Failure: How the People's Car Failed to Reshape the Auto Industry and Create New Growth
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case analyses Tata Motors' strategic move to create and launch the Tata Nano, exploring the factors behind the project's earlier success and the... -
First National Bank of Westhaven (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Concerns a loan that has gone bad. -
Ça Va de Soi: A Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of a Failed IT Project - Part B - The Rise
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case HEC138. This two-part case study of a Canadian knitwear SME called Ça Va de Soi (CVDS) presents a real-life situation: an IT project... -
First National Bank of Westhaven (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Describes the events leading to deterioration of a goose farming operation. -
Groupe Eurotunnel S.A. (B): Restructuring Under the Procedure de Sauvegarde
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details In mid-2007 the chairman and CEO of Eurotunnel Group, having elected to file for bankruptcy under a newly-enacted French insolvency law, awaits the outcome... -
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... -
Paramount Equipment, Spanish Version
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,... -
BANEX and the No Pago Movement (B)
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Bankruptcy in the City of Detroit
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The June 2013 bankruptcy of the city of Detroit, Michigan was, at the time, the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Detroit had struggled...
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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,... -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
Kodak's Downfall Wasn't About Technology
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
Marketing Myopia
Business failures Magazine ArticleSustained growth depends on how broadly you define your business—and how carefully you gauge your customers’ needs. -
Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details James Tallest analyzed the opportunity to invest in a distressed portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring one or more non-performing... -
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... -
Learn From Failure
Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor, describes strategies for analyzing workplace mistakes and producing more intelligent ones. -
How to Make Better Predictions When You Don't Have Enough Data
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleA different way to teach algorithms. -
Why We're Seeing So Many Corporate Scandals
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA combination of digital technology, flat corporate structures, and unethical leaders. -
The Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details ...