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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
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
3 Reasons New Coaches and Consultants Fail
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleOne mistake: Not taking low-fee, brand-building work early on. -
How I Knew AOL Time Warner Was Doomed (No, Really!)
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn 2000, a couple of days after the AOL/Time Warner merger, I was scheduled to guest-lecture in a Rotman School class on the "New Economy." In the class,... -
Why Do So Many Strategies Fail?
Strategy Magazine ArticleLeaders focus on the parts rather than the whole. -
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... -
How to Figure Out What Your Side Hustle Should Be
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDon't fall in love with your first idea. -
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... -
Use Failure to Grow Your Business
Strategy & Execution VideoRita McGrath, Columbia Business School professor, explains how companies can plan and pursue an aggressive growth agenda by framing their strategic growth... -
One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible
Mergers and acquisitions Digital ArticleWhen tight and loose cultures merge, they often clash. -
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? -
Why Hard-Nosed Executives Should Care About Management Theory (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
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... -
When the CEO Dies, What Comes First: His Company or His Family? (Commentary for 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... -
How to Overcome Your Fear of Failure
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThink about what may happen if you do nothing. -
A Tale of Two Business Models
Strategy & Execution VideoSometimes businesses that seem similar on the surface have dramatically different business models that produce dramatically different results. -
Use Failure as an Opportunity to Reflect on Your Strengths
Communication Digital ArticleRejection hurts - but it isn't the end. -
Failing to Secure Your Customer
Don't assume a customer will buy your solution. Find a way to get them to demonstrate that they will. -
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... -
Learn From Failure
Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor, describes strategies for analyzing workplace mistakes and producing more intelligent ones.
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TCS: Agility at Scale-Managing Change
Management Case Study8.95View Details The head of Agile Initiative Network (AIN) at TCS, an India based multinational IT services-consulting-business solutions enterprise, has been mandated... -
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... -
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... -
Pinewood Mobile Homes, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case presents a realistic situation in which a firm in financial distress attempts an out-of-court financial restructuring by means of a debt exchange.... -
Mission to Mars (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study15.05View Details This case is set in spring 2000, several months after two successive, failed missions to the planet Mars. Students are asked to evaluate the reasons for... -
Aereo
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Aereo aimed to disrupt television program distribution by providing consumers access to local broadcast TV programming using offsite antennas, cloud-based... -
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... -
Purity Steel Corporation, 2012
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... -
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,... -
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,... -
Walmart Goes Global (A)
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Tuplastibog: Is it Worth Continuing?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Although Tuplastibog is a fictitious name, it is based on a real company that was created in 2014 by Juan Carlos Ordoñez, using financing from his family's... -
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... -
Crisis at the Mill: Weaving an Indian Turnaround - Alvarez & Marsal
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Emerging markets are challenging and require special expertise. India in particular is known to be a tricky business environment. The case follows two... -
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... -
Mergers and People: Key Factors for an Effective Acquisition and for Surviving One
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The aim of this technical note is to consider the human dimension of mergers and acquisitions and the way these processes impact people. In the substantial... -
Studio Realty
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details Studio Realty created an "electronic open house" technology, by which home buyers sitting in a comfortable setting, could tour a home, viewing its rooms,... -
Breaking Barriers: Micro-Mortgage Analytics
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Providing affordable housing to a rapidly increasing low income group population in Urban-Semi Rural India remains one of the biggest challenges as well... -
Deloitte & Touche (A): A Hole in the Pipeline
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details Deloitte & Touche was losing talented women, and CEO Mike Cook wanted to stop the loss, especially as the accounting and consulting fields became more... -
Quibi: The Failure of Hollywood's "Next Big Thing"
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Following its official launch on April 6, 2020, Quibi, a mobile-only short-form video streaming platform that had raised over $1.7 billion had failed...
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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
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
TCS: Agility at Scale-Managing Change
Management Case Study8.95View Details The head of Agile Initiative Network (AIN) at TCS, an India based multinational IT services-consulting-business solutions enterprise, has been mandated... -
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... -
3 Reasons New Coaches and Consultants Fail
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleOne mistake: Not taking low-fee, brand-building work early on. -
Aikon Medical Devices Co. (A): Strategizing for continuous success, Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching Note for Case IM1229 -
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... -
Pinewood Mobile Homes, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case presents a realistic situation in which a firm in financial distress attempts an out-of-court financial restructuring by means of a debt exchange.... -
When a Strategic Plan Includes Bankruptcy
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleIn an average week, more than 300 companies fail. And more than 75% of those desperate firms file for a "liquidation bankruptcy," agreeing to a complete...