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      Entrepreneurial Failure
      HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurial Failure Course Number 1745 Professor Thomas Eisenmann Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Option: short paper or...
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      • December 2020
      • Case

      IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center

      By: Shane Greenstein, Mel Martin and Sarkis Agaian
      After discovering that their cancer diagnostic tool, designed to leverage the cloud computing power of IBM Watson, needed greater integration into the clinical processes at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the development team had difficult choices to make. The Oncology...  View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Use And Leverage; Operations; failure; Technology; Information Technology; Software; Health Care And Treatment; Product Development; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Houston; Texas
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      Greenstein, Shane, Mel Martin, and Sarkis Agaian. "IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center." Harvard Business School Case 621-022, December 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
      To explore determinants of new venture performance, the CEOs of 470 early-stage startups were surveyed regarding a broad range of factors related to their venture’s customer value proposition, product management, marketing, technology and operations, financial...  View Details
      Keywords: Startups; Survey Research; Performance Analysis; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Analysis; Business Startups; failure; Surveys
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      Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-057, October 2020.
      • October 2020
      • Case

      When Institutions Fail: HIV/AIDS in the 1980s

      By: Tom Nicholas and Christian Godwin
      During the early 1980s, young gay men in urban centers such as San Francisco and New York City began contracting a mysterious illness that would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. A diagnosis meant almost certain death, with a less than 1% survival rate. Conflicting...  View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Policy; Government And Politics; Health; History; Rights; Media; Organizations; Business And Community Relations; Religion; Social Psychology; Identity; Prejudice And Bias; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry; Journalism And News Industry; Media And Broadcasting Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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      Nicholas, Tom, and Christian Godwin. "When Institutions Fail: HIV/AIDS in the 1980s." Harvard Business School Case 821-002, October 2020.
      • Fall 2020
      • Article

      Sizing Up Corporate Restructuring in the COVID Crisis

      By: Robin Greenwood, Benjamin Iverson and David Thesmar
      In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial and legal system will need to deal with a surge of financial distress in the business sector. Some firms will be able to survive, while others will face bankruptcy and thus need to be liquidated or reorganized. Many...  View Details
      Keywords: Covid-19; Health Pandemics; Economy; System Shocks; Financial Crisis; Restructuring
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      Greenwood, Robin, Benjamin Iverson, and David Thesmar. "Sizing Up Corporate Restructuring in the COVID Crisis." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Fall 2020). (Also NBER Working Paper, No. 28104.)
      • July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
      • Case

      Property Finder's Strategy for Online Classifieds in the MENA Region

      By: Krishna G. Palepu, Gamze Yucaoglu and Fares Khrais
      The case opens in 2020 as Michael Lahyani, founder and CEO of Property Finder, Dubai’s leading online real estate classifieds portal, contemplates the company’s five-year growth strategy.
      Since its founding in 2005 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Property...  View Details
      Keywords: General Business; Real Estate; Entrepreneurship; Property; Strategy; Emerging Markets; Growth Management; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry; United Arab Emirates; Saudi Arabia; Egypt; Turkey
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      Palepu, Krishna G., Gamze Yucaoglu, and Fares Khrais. "Property Finder's Strategy for Online Classifieds in the MENA Region." Harvard Business School Case 321-009, July 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      When Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? The Role of Negative Information in Expert Evaluations for Novel Projects

      By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani
      The evaluation of novel projects lies at the heart of scientific and technological innovation, and yet literature suggests that this process is subject to inconsistency and potential biases. This paper investigates the role of information sharing among experts as the...  View Details
      Keywords: Project Evaluation; Innovation; Knowledge Frontier; Negativity Bias; Projects; Innovation And Invention; Information; Diversity; Judgments
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      Lane, Jacqueline N., Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "When Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? The Role of Negative Information in Expert Evaluations for Novel Projects." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-007, July 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
      • July 2020
      • Article

      Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions

      By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
      This paper argues that intra-firm geographic mobility is an understudied mechanism that can help mitigate coordination failures in a geographically distributed organization. The paper presents an organizing framework on how intra-firm geographic mobility creates value...  View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms And Management; Employees; Geographic Location; Value Creation
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      Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions." Special Issue on Employee Inter- and Intra-Firm Mobility. Advances in Strategic Management 41 (July 2020).
      • June 2020 (Revised October 2020)
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      What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?

      By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
      This case describes the development of the Boeing 737 Max airplane model and the events leading up to two tragic plane crashes, in which a total of 346 people died: the crash of Lion Air flight 610 on October 29, 2018, in Indonesia, and the crash of Ethiopian Airlines...  View Details
      Keywords: Communication; Communication Intention And Meaning; Communication Strategy; Forms Of Communication; Announcements; Decision Making; Decision Choices And Conditions; Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values And Beliefs; Globalization; Global Strategy; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Governance Controls; Human Resources; Resignation And Termination; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Business Or Company Management; Crisis Management; Management Practices And Processes; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Systems; Risk Management; Time Management; Markets; Demand And Consumers; Market Platforms; Supply And Industry; Duopoly And Oligopoly; Industry Structures; Operations; Product Development; Organizations; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Outcome Or Result; failure; Success; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems And Challenges; Relationships; Business And Community Relations; Business And Government Relations; Business And Stakeholder Relations; Risk And Uncertainty; Safety; Strategy; Transportation; Air Transportation; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Africa; Ethiopia; Asia; Indonesia; North And Central America; United States; Seattle; Chicago
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      George, William W., and Amram Migdal. "What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?" Harvard Business School Case 320-104, June 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
      • June 2020
      • Case

      Recovering Trust After Corporate Misconduct at Wells Fargo

      By: Suraj Srinivasan and Jonah S. Goldberg
      The case describes widespread misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank in the period leading up to 2017 and the company’s subsequent attempts to improve internal controls, company culture, and corporate governance. The case examines the potential causes of large scale...  View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Internal Controls; Banks And Banking; Crime And Corruption; Corporate Governance; Organizational Culture; Governance Compliance; Management Systems; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Governing And Advisory Boards
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      Srinivasan, Suraj, and Jonah S. Goldberg. "Recovering Trust After Corporate Misconduct at Wells Fargo." Harvard Business School Case 120-128, June 2020.
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      Using the Balanced Scorecard for Successful Health Care M&A Integration

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      The failure of merged organizations to achieve stated goals is commonplace. In health care, the challenge is exacerbated by the industry’s third-party payer system and multiple stakeholders, especially the physicians in the merging entities. This article describes how...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Care And Treatment; Mergers And Acquisitions; Integration; Balanced Scorecard
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Using the Balanced Scorecard for Successful Health Care M&A Integration." NEJM Catalyst (May 21, 2020).
      • April 30, 2020
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      Leading Your Team Past the Peak of a Crisis

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
      In the middle of a crisis, everything looks like a failure. But it’s possible to come out the other end with a strong company—and often with a plan for growth. Companies with a people-first culture can succeed by paying attention to three things: establishing clear...  View Details
      Keywords: Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Corporate Accountability; Collaborative Innovation And Invention
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Leading Your Team Past the Peak of a Crisis." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 30, 2020).
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      The Case for AI Insurance

      By: Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and Frank Nagle
      When organizations place machine learning systems at the center of their businesses, they introduce the risk of failures that could lead to a data breach, brand damage, property damage, business interruption, and in some cases, bodily harm. Even when companies are...  View Details
      Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Cybersecurity; Online Technology; Safety; Insurance
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      Kumar, Ram Shankar Siva, and Frank Nagle. "The Case for AI Insurance." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 29, 2020).
      • April 2020 (Revised July 2020)
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      Amazon in China and India

      By: Krishna G. Palepu and Kairavi Dey
      Amazon has been unsuccessful in its efforts to develop a business in China. Even though Amazon was an early entrant into China’s e-commerce space, its domestic rivals, especially Alibaba, created innovative business models uniquely suited for the conditions in China. ...  View Details
      Keywords: Global Strategy; Multinational Firms And Management; Emerging Markets; Business Strategy; Expansion; Business Model; Retail Industry; China; India; United States
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      Palepu, Krishna G., and Kairavi Dey. "Amazon in China and India." Harvard Business School Case 120-111, April 2020. (Revised July 2020.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Novel Risks

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard and Anette Mikes
      All organizations practice some form of risk management to identify and assess routine risks in their operations, supply chains, strategy, and external environment. These risk management policies, however, fail in the presence of novelty. Novel risks arise from...  View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Policy; failure; Organizational Change And Adaptation
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      Kaplan, Robert S., Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, and Anette Mikes. "Novel Risks." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-094, March 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
      • March 2020
      • Case

      Aereo

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jacey Taft
      Aereo aimed to disrupt television program distribution by providing consumers access to local broadcast TV programming using offsite antennas, cloud-based DVRs, and an Internet connection. With Aereo, consumers could “cut the cord” and avoid the high cost of a cable TV...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; failure; Lawsuits And Litigation; Internet; Media; United States
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      Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Jacey Taft. "Aereo." Harvard Business School Case 820-043, March 2020.
      • March–April 2020
      • Article

      Building A Culture of Experimentation

      By: Stefan Thomke
      Why don’t organizations test more? After examining this question for several years, I can tell you that the central reason is culture. As companies try to scale up their experimentation capacity, they often find that the obstacles are not tools and technology but...  View Details
      Keywords: Experimentation; Culture; Innovation; Online; Customer Experience; Organizational Culture; Innovation And Invention; Online Technology; Attitudes; Decision Making; Change; Leadership
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      Thomke, Stefan. "Building A Culture of Experimentation." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 2 (March–April 2020): 40–48.
      • February 2020
      • Case

      Fake News at DER SPIEGEL (A)

      By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and Tonia Labruyere
      The case discusses the strategy of DER SPIEGEL, the leading news magazine in Germany, in the aftermath of the discovery of a fake reporting scandal. It had come to light that one of DER SPIEGEL’s own reporters had falsified and made up entire articles for years,...  View Details
      Keywords: Scandal; Management Control Systems; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Communication Strategy; Journalism And News Industry; Germany
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      Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, and Tonia Labruyere. "Fake News at DER SPIEGEL (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-001, February 2020.
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      What We Can Learn from Five Naturalistic Field Experiments That Failed to Shift Commuter Behaviour

      By: A.S. Kristal and A.V. Whillans
      Across five field experiments with employees of a large organization (n = 68,915), we examined whether standard behavioural interventions (“nudges”) successfully reduced single-occupancy vehicle commutes. In Studies 1 and 2, we sent letters and emails with nudges...  View Details
      Keywords: Commuting; Field Experiments; Nudges; Behavior; Change
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      Kristal, A.S., and A.V. Whillans. "What We Can Learn from Five Naturalistic Field Experiments That Failed to Shift Commuter Behaviour." Nature Human Behaviour 4, no. 2 (February 2020): 169–176.
      • January 2020
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      Celata Bioinnovations

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      In December 2019, Jon Hu (HBS ‘19) and Dr. Samantha Dale Strasser, co-founders of Celata Bioinnovations, were raising $1 million to launch their company. They had founded Celata less than six months earlier with the aim of redefining the drug discovery process....  View Details
      Keywords: Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Drug Trials; Pharmaceutical Companies; Pharmaceutical Company; Pharmaceuticals; Therapeutics; Biologics; Biotech; Biotechnology; Biopharmacy Company; Biochemistry; Technology Commercialization; Technology Companies; Drug Testing; Startup; Start-up; Startups; Start-ups; Startup Financing; Strategic Decision Making; Strategic Decisions; Strategic Evolution; Fda; Food And Drug Administration; Clinical Trials; Disease Management; Market Attractiveness; Market Entry; Market Opportunities; Health Disorders; Technological Innovation; Technology; Commercialization; Business Startups; Finance; Decision Making; Strategy; Market Entry And Exit; Opportunities; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry
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      Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Celata Bioinnovations." Harvard Business School Case 720-427, January 2020.
      • January 2020
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      How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

      By: Paul A. Gompers, William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
      We survey 885 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing, investment selection, valuation, deal structure, post-investment value-added, exits, internal firm organization, and relationships...  View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Value Creation; Capital Structure; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making
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      Gompers, Paul A., William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev. "How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?" Journal of Financial Economics 135, no. 1 (January 2020): 169–190.
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