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Total Cost Control in Project Management via Satisficing

By: Joel Goh and Nicholas G. Hall
We consider projects with uncertain activity times and the possibility of expediting, or crashing, them. Activity times come from a partially specified distribution within a family of distributions. This family is described by one or more of the following details about... View Details
Keywords: Project Management; Time And Cost Control; Robust Optimization; Satisficing; Linear Decision Rule; PERT; Management; Cost Management; Projects
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  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better

working from home brought greater flexibility, such arrangements often blurred personal and professional boundaries and created a never-ending day for some people. We asked three Harvard Business School faculty members to offer insights from research that can help... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • November 2001 (Revised September 2002)
  • Case

International Management Group (IMG)

By: Bharat N. Anand and Kate Attea
In 2001, International Management Group (IMG) is the dominant company in the sports management industry. Its founder and CEO, Mark McCormack, is credited with having created the industry of sports management in the early 1960s. Over the next 40 years, IMG's expansion... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Finance; Organizational Structure; Planning; Relationships; Conflict of Interests; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Sports Industry
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  • 2020
  • Book

Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire

By: Thomas J. DeLong
The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes... View Details
Keywords: Teaching; Leadership; Attitudes; Management; Business Education
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    Managing Know-How

    For many firms, the ability to create, organize, and disseminate know-how is a key factor in their ability to succeed. But should all companies engage in formal knowledge management? If not, which companies derive most value from a formal knowledge system?... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Managing Customer Information

    By: Frances X. Frei
    After a service offering is implemented, firms routinely collect significant amounts of data, including customer, employee, and firm financial data. However, service firms are not nearly as effective as they could be in taking advantage of these data. This research... View Details
    • 11 Feb 2013
    • News

    Thorny research problems, solved by crowdsourcing

    • 13 Feb 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

    Editor's note: This is part of a series of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this article, Davis discusses leadership roles. Part Two:... View Details
    Keywords: by John A. Davis
    • 13 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Unconventional Insights for Managing Stakeholder Trust

    Keywords: by Michael Pirson & Deepak Malhotra
    • 14 May 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

    important career matter for individuals as well as for managers who want to inspire, nurture, and recruit stars. A new study by Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee on star knowledge... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • February 2019
    • Article

    Who Benefits Most in Disease Management Programs: Improving Target Efficiency

    By: Timothy Simcoe, Maryaline Catillon and Paul Gertler
    Disease management programs aim to reduce cost by improving the quality of care for chronic diseases. Evidence of their effectiveness is mixed. Reducing health care spending sufficiently to cover program costs has proved particularly challenging. This study uses a... View Details
    Keywords: Health Economics; Target Efficiency; Diabetes; Disease Management; Program Evaluation; Heterogeneity; Economics; Health; Quality; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Health Industry
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    • 21 Dec 2010
    • News

    Nine New Books by Harvard Business School Faculty

    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Creating the Office of Strategy Management

    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
    • 05 Jul 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    How Are Middle Managers Falling Down Most Often on Employee Inclusion?

    (iStockphoto/AzmanL) Search “inclusion” on Amazon and the majority of book entries that come up are for children. Is that an indicator of the current state of management art on the subject? Fortunately, there is a growing body of research... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
    • Module Note

    Strategy Execution Module 14: Managing Strategic Risk

    By: Robert Simons
    This module reading provides an overview of the business conduct boundaries, strategic boundaries, and internal control systems used to manage risk. Boundary systems—linked to clear, enforceable sanctions—are essential whenever demanding performance goals are set and... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Strategy Execution; Boundary Systems; Innovation; Internal Controls; Fraud; Human Behavior; Staff Experts; Strategy; Risk Management; Behavior; Governance Controls; Management Practices and Processes; Boundaries; Employees; Business Strategy; Innovation and Invention
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    • 03 Nov 2011
    • What Do You Think?

    The Ultimate Question in Management

    this type was proposed by Pete DeLisi: "Do you make your people feel like they want to be a better man or woman?" Favorite "ultimate" questions that managers could ask of their reports... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • August 1995 (Revised September 1995)
    • Case

    Hutton Branch Manager (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz
    The manager of an E.F. Hutton branch office must decide how best to approach a colleague whose aggressive and ethically problematic cash management practices have cost the branch a major institutional client. These practices had been encouraged by top management at... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Business or Company Management; Decisions; Management Skills; Cash Flow; Financial Management; Investment; Management Teams; Financial Services Industry
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    • 22 Feb 2016
    • News

    Every Company Needs a Growth Manager

    • Research Summary

    Managing Networked Businesses

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    Platform-based businesses that leverage network effects face a distinctive set of management challenges. A platform encompasses components and rules that facilitate interactions between the platform's users. A platform-based product or service exhibits a network... View Details
    • 08 Aug 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Death of the Global Manager

    When Transnational Management was first published in 1992, the world was a different place. "The global economy was radically restructuring in the wake of an era of accelerating globalization in the 1980s," says Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna