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- 01 Mar 2003
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last five years has been nearly $1 trillion in underperforming investment in the United States alone. Although its central message is that managers need to think more coherently about their project View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at managing a growth business.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes confirmed and sometimes contested... View Details
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The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports - Course Catalog
those properties together introduce a unique set of challenges and opportunities for managers. Subsequent modules explore: How can entertainment businesses best allocate resources across a portfolio of View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
be big enough to support a company, and then you see where you can grow from there." After graduation, Dawe worked as a project manager in Maine for Horizon Wind Energy, led by fellow HBS grad Michael Skelly... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
Advances in Strategic Management Innovation Policies By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation but has not examined how this... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- December 2001 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
Poland's A2 Motorway
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
Autostrada Wielkopolska S.A. (AWSA) is a consortium of 18 firms that won a concession to build and operate Poland's first private toll road. In June 2000, AWSA's chief financial officer, Wojciech Gebicki, is preparing for a meeting with the projects' lead bankers to... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Cost vs Benefits; Project Finance; Projects; Construction Industry; Transportation Industry; Poland
Esty, Benjamin C., and Michael Kane. "Poland's A2 Motorway." Harvard Business School Case 202-030, December 2001. (Revised April 2003.)
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
An International Perspective
engineering science from the California Institute of Technology, Waite spent several years with the Royal Dutch Shell Group in a variety of technical and project management roles in Norway, the Netherlands,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
authors suggest a strategy to determine whether valuable resources in your operation are being drained by projects that aren’t viable. Zombie Amnesty Do you feel like you don’t have sufficient resources to take promising ideas forward? It... View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
the North American charging standard. Anish's role prior to HBS was Project & Product Portfolio Management at Mercedes-Benz AG. Kate Swain-Smith (MBA 2025, Section I),... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
a portfolio that has reversed years of financial losses. “Atlantic Media is one of the only legacy companies that has made a successful transition to digital,” adds Perlmutter. “Their corporate strategy is inherently tied in with doing... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
diversifying interests, Finansbank grew to become one of Turkey's largest private banks, with 200 branches in 10 countries. Although he sold his interest in the bank in 2006, he remained chairman until last year. Özyeğin now oversees FiBA Group, a $6 billion View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
in the midtown Manhattan headquarters of Halcyon/Alan B. Slifka Management Company. In discussing the success of his investment firm, he points out that his traders are not only innovative and individualistic but also cooperative. When... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
focused, where people feel they are on a mission, actually inspires creativity. An example might be an impending project launch or a customer with a critical need. In these instances, the creative team is concentrating on a problem where... View Details
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About IT: IT Planning and Service Delivery Team Profile | Information Technology
functions—service delivery and strategic portfolio planning. On one side, the team drives the tools and processes that empower HBS IT to deliver seamless, high-impact services to the broader HBS community. On the other, they lead the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
NGOs. For Naidoo, borders are meant to be crossed. — JH Virtuous Circle: As director of capital expansion and financial services at Habitat for Humanity, Cindy Song manages a $34 million loan portfolio that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
contemplates moving forward with an actively managed robo-advisor. First, Alpha Architect has an overarching concern about pricing: Current passive robo-advising fees run about 0.25 percent, and have already begun to trend downward. And... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
cracks began to appear in its carefully crafted production plan. The first order of modular homes languished on the assembly line for months as Greentech struggled to resolve a number of serious production-control issues. Stuntz now has hired a new production-control... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
Paul A. Gompers, Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. A member of both the Finance and the Entrepreneurial View Details