# Business Lessons from the Museum of Failures Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/harvard-business-review-7777387/business-lessons-from-the-failure-museum Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/harvard-business-review-7777387/business-lessons-from-the-failure-museum.md Podcast: [Harvard Business Review](https://stenobird.com/podcast/harvard-business-review-7777387) Published: 2026-06-18T19:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG9804218214.mp3 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG9804218214.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/harvard-business-review-7777387/episodes/business-lessons-from-the-failure-museum Duration seconds: 268 ## Resource Business Lessons from the Failure Museum 21 Feb 2025 --- What can failures like Harley-Davidson Cologne or Cheetos Lip Balm teach us about success? Sean Jacobsohn, partner at Norwest Venture Partners and founder of the Failure Museum, takes us on a tour of notable products and services that bombed. He shares the six forces of failure and how companies can avoid making the same mistakes. Read the full article here: https://s.hbr.org/4iqyYxB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/harvard-business-review-7777387/episodes/business-lessons-from-the-failure-museum/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/harvard-business-review-7777387/business-lessons-from-the-failure-museum.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.