BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260705T063343EDT-8946JCviJt@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260705T103343Z DESCRIPTION:Tiona W. Zuzul\n\nAssistant Professor of Business Administratio n – Harvard Business School\n\nMANAGING THE PROMISE-RISK TENSION: RECRAFTI NG FRAMINGS OF INNOVATION AFTER CATASTROPHIC FAILURE\n\nDate: Friday\, Apr il 19\, 2024\n Time: 10:30 am to 12:00 pm\n Location: VIRTUAL WORKSHOP\n\nRS VP by Friday\, April 12\, 2024 - 5.00 pm\n\nAbstract: \n\nCatastrophic inn ovation failure destabilizes firms\, challenging them to address the cause s of the failure internally while also reasserting the worthiness of their innovative efforts to external stakeholders. We examine how firms respond to this challenge by analyzing Virgin Galactic (VG)’s external framing in the aftermath of its fatal 2014 test flight crash and contrasting this fr aming with its internal design choices. Following the crash\, we find that VG’s framing of its innovation efforts to external audiences did not alig n with its internal design decisions. Remedying the technical cause of the failure only required VG to make small improvements to its technology. In contrast\, VG dramatically reframed its efforts by recalibrating two elem ents: the promise of the innovation (once completed) and the risk inherent in its development (as it is developed). While VG’s pre-crash framing ele vated promise and downplayed risk\, its post-crash framing amplified both. This new framing also decoupled both risk and promise from the technical reality of the firm’s innovation. The sum of these actions allowed VG to e levate the significance of its efforts and justify its continued quest. We draw on these findings to theorize the “promise-risk tension\,” and propo se how innovating firms can manage this tension to buffer against the dest abilizing effects of a catastrophic innovation failure.\n\n\n\n\nWe are pr oud to announce that our event has been awarded a Gold Sustainable Event c ertification by the 91 Sustainable Events program run by the 91 Of fice of Sustainability. \n\n \n\n\n\nNous sommes fiers d’annoncer que notr e événement a été certifié comme événement D’Or par le programme Événement s durables 91 du Bureau du développement durable de l’Université McGil l\n DTSTART:20240419T143000Z DTEND:20240419T160000Z SUMMARY:CSSO Speaker Series: Tiona W. Zuzul URL:/desautels/channels/event/csso-speaker-series-tion a-w-zuzul-356423 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR