Managing Projects - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Oct 2019
News

Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

Alvarez has visited farms, slaughterhouses, packing plants, and supermarkets to explore issues of concern to managers working around the world and across the supply chain. “We try to get into the weeds of what’s happening and speak to the... View Details

05 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 5

now also has an equity stake in the Bahamas' gaming and resort industry. The case explores the growing role of project financing by way of China's Export-Import Bank and its implications for business dealmaking and the competitiveness of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo

her back in Germany. My efforts paid off - she and I were married this past June in the Bavarian alps. When Duolingo visited campus last October, I figured this could be a good opportunity to get Product Manager (PM) experience (which I... View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

Education Leadership Project (PELP), a collaborative effort with the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) that employs management concepts and entrepreneurial strategies to improve student performance... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

24 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Meet the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Class of 2020

tight-knit cohort to resonate ideas among while simultaneously being integrated into the diverse HBS and SEAS ecosystems. The program perfectly mirrors my own interest in redefining the relationship between business management and... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue

This past November, the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association held its 14th annual conference at the Charles Hotel in Boston, with more than 300 alumni coming to connect and hear from industry leaders. We asked HBSHAA president Tom Robinson (MBA 1989), View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; healthcare; HBSAAA

14 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from local stakeholders and officials across the... View Details

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Israel - Global Activities 2020

regulatory changes. Margolis found the School’s research office in Israel and center in California to be instrumental in all aspects of the case. “This project epitomizes the wonder of Harvard Business School,” he says, noting that the... View Details

22 Mar 2022
News

Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

Forums, and Community Partners. During the pandemic, the club managed to continue much of its programming virtually, which yielded a number of opportunities to connect with other clubs and host guest speakers from anywhere. “The virtual... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 Sep 2018
News

Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

environmental department. At the end of his term, Coady was appointed to lead the U.S. delegation for the creation and implementation of the Global Environmental Facility, to finance projects in biodiversity, climate change, and food... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Apr 2016
News

Trail Blazer

spoken publicly before business school, I learned how to articulate a point of view in front of peers—and convince them of the case I was making,” he recalls. After graduating from HBS, McMinn landed in Silicon Valley at Intel, serving as product View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade; Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2008
News

One-on-One with Jim Breyer

almost implies a consumer Internet bubble, with a number of me-too projects that will continue to get funded. We simply do not ever want to be chasing hot sectors. As we think about Internet opportunities, Web 2.0 would no longer... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

26 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program

roles after that. It was a giant leap forward in my ability to be an effective executive.” After one year at Mercy Corps, Zeaske stayed with the organization as a Program Strategy Manager for another year before joining Jumpstart as the... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

01 Sep 2011
News

The City Solution

no services. Macomber has spent time doing research in such an environment, the sprawling Mumbai slum of Dharavi, where scenes from the movie Slumdog Millionaire were filmed. As described in an HBS case he cowrote, the $3 billion public-private Dharavi Redevelopment... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

15 Apr 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Kelly Ogiesoba

across pricing, revenue growth, strategy, and M&A (merger and acquisitions) deals. NextEra Energy, Project Manager, 30 months: Part of my work here was centered around the traditional work of a renewable developer as I worked to... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

market and exit opportunity? Or should NextGen Jane choose the tool most likely to be adopted by ob-gyns to manage their patient populations? The Answers: The idealistic answer is to focus on the gynecological disease that affects the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

the results of his inquiry in a new book The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World, which deals head on with the growing management complexities in the new economy. “What's going on now is a return to an earlier... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

horizons from being a project manager, being narrowly focused, to being a general manager and understanding how to manage a whole business.” He particularly credits professor... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

on riskier projects and strategies. But risk management must overcome severe individual and organizational biases that prevent managers and employees from thinking deeply and... View Details