Publications

2008
Working Paper

Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges are the Benefits

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard

The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work and industry trends necessitate that professionals from different functions work together on development projects to create the highest quality product in... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Management Skills; Product Development; Projects; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Social and Collaborative Networks

winter 2000
Article

The Equate Project: An Introduction to Islamic Project Finance

By: B. C. Esty

Keywords: Projects; Finance; Information

November 2023
Case

The Commons Project in Rwanda—Building Digital Infrastructure for the Global Public Good

By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Tom Quinn

In September 2022, The Commons Project Foundation (TCP) CEO Zhenya Lindgardt and her team met on a Zoom call to discuss building tools to help Rwandans manage their health data. They believed that helping Africa build digital infrastructure would improve much-needed... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Capital; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Adaptation; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology Industry; Rwanda; United States

Educators

Teaching Interest

Large-Scale Investment (LSI, MBA Elective Curriculum)

By: Benjamin C. Esty

Large-Scale Investment (LSI) is a case-based course about project finance that is designed for second-year MBA students. Project finance involves the creation of a legally independent project company financed with nonrecourse debt for the purpose of investing in a... View Details

Keywords: Project Finance; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Capital Budgeting

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

with HBS Working Knowledge editor, Sean Silverthorne, Porter discusses the importance of cluster research and the value of the CMP. Silverthorne: How can data from the Cluster Mapping Project help corporations make better location... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

February 2007
Background Note

Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science: Project Note for Students

Provides students with a list of assignments and potential deliverables for a university-based science commercialization project. View Details

Keywords: Projects; Commercialization

03 Feb 2012
HBS Seminar

Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

08 Dec 2006
Working Paper Summaries

The Industry R&D Survey: Patent Database Link Project

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Shihe Fu; Technology

September 2016 (Revised July 2017)
Supplement

Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (B)

By: Dorothy Leonard and Christopher Myers

At the conclusion of the (A) case, Jennifer Trosper needed to decide whether or not to throw her support behind the training and outreach represented by the ROV-E program to build small rovers like the ones used on the surface of Mars by NASA JPL. The (B) case... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Aerospace Industry; United States

July 1994 (Revised August 1994)
Case

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: Project ICON (D)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and C.J. Meadows

March 1992 (Revised August 1992)
Case

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: Project ICON (A)

October 2001 (Revised June 2006)
Supplement

Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (B), The

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Chad

April 1999 (Revised March 2002)
Case

Aluminum Smelting in South Africa: Alusaf's Hillside Project

With prices at all-time lows at the beginning of 1994, South Africa's sole primary aluminum producer--Alusaf--is considering building the world's largest greenfield smelter. Using cost estimates in this case, students can evaluate the relative cost position of this... View Details

Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Analysis; Markets; Profit; Capital; Industrial Products Industry; South Africa

Educators

05 Mar 2020
News

Nikole Hannah-Jones Brings the 1619 Project to HBS

09 Aug 2013
Video

Dean Nitin Nohria Announces the U.S. Competitiveness Project

March 1995
Teaching Note

Capital Projects As Real Options: An Introduction (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Teaching Note for (9-295-074). View Details