Project Portfolio Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 1984 (Revised June 1987)
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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

01 Dec 2008
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Innovation as P&G’s Key

every level, and effectively manage risk. At Honeywell, for example, the Automation and Control Solutions business relies on a homegrown Velocity Portfolio Manager software... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

zone. It's how financial managers cover the possibility of unlikely but high impact events. Why would asset owners—never mind groups of citizens—not want to use a probability-based approach to resilience of physical View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

February 1993 (Revised December 1994)
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Corporate Financial Management: Options Exercises

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

This case presents four exercises designed to introduce students to applications of option pricing and decision-tree analysis to real corporate investment problems. Two of the four problems involve decision trees and two involve option pricing. Students should be... View Details

Keywords: Financial Management; Investment; Projects; Corporate Finance

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August 2001
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Teradyne-Managing Discontinuous Change

By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout

Presents the top executives of Teradyne. Alex d'Arbeloff, the CEO who drove the project, Jim Prestridge, the vice chairman (and top engineer), Owen Robbins, vice chairman and CFO, and Ed Rogus, the division head who wouldn't fund Aurora. View Details

Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Projects; Management Teams

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10 Dec 2014
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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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

1 Aug 1997
Conference Presentation

What Really Happens in Creative Projects: Event Sampling through Electronic Data Collection

By: T. M. Amabile, D. Whitney, J. Weinstock, L. Miller and C. Fallang

Keywords: Creativity; Projects; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

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01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy

John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

25 Jun 2014
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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 Mar 2008
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HBS Records an “Excellent” Year

Fiscal year 2007 “proved to be an excellent financial and operational year for Harvard Business School,” declared CFO Richard Melnick (MBA ’92) in the School’s newly released annual report. He cited continued growth in the global economy and strong demand for View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

10 Sep 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: EF Education First

a great fit for you! There are numerous examples of HBS alumni joining EF and making an immediate impact through innovative projects that we’d simply never thought of before. One HBS alum launched a View Details

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Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar - Course Catalog

challenges, learn from each other and seek feedback across teams. Interactive guest lectures will provide focus on building skills in the investment process from data sourcing and research to risk management and operations to asset... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

As a second-year student, Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) worked with Jingsheng Huang, managing executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai, to organize an impact investing conference in Shanghai. (photo courtesy Harvard Center Shanghai) As a... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

Professor James K. Sebenius, examines the change process through a negotiating lens. The dramatized negotiation involves interactions between a manager responsible for a critical project and other View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life

about 25 percent turned out to be mistakes. In other words, a typical manager gets it wrong a lot. So if a “right stuff” screen doesn’t predict future success, what does? I spent a lot of time searching. It wasn’t until I came across work... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Management; Management

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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

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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life data science project experience. This full-time, intensive eight-week remote learning program was designed for students with basic technical background, and culminated with a... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises