Publications

May 2001 (Revised January 2003)
Teaching Note

Calpine Corporation: The Evolution From Project to Corporate Finance TN

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane

Teaching Note for (9-201-098). View Details

Keywords: Energy Industry; United States

April 1990 (Revised November 1992)
Case

Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin

Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details

Keywords: Conferences; Developing Countries and Economies; Information Publishing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Agreements and Arrangements; Product; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Bangladesh; Washington (state, US)

Educators

01 Jun 2013
News

The Long View: Tobin Project takes on the big questions

March 2004 (Revised April 2005)
Supplement

International Rivers Network and the Bujagali Dam Project (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia

Spreadsheet to (9-204-083). Download only. View Details

Keywords: Energy Industry; Uganda

September 1999
Case

Project Dreamcast: Serious Play at Sega Enterprises Ltd. (B)

By: Stefan H. Thomke and Andrew Robertson

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Computer Industry

Educators

June 1985
Case

Lex Service PLC (A): Schweber Electronics--The Gate Array Project

June 1992
Teaching Note

Barco Projection Systems (A): Worldwide Niche Marketing, Teaching Note

By: Robert J. Dolan

Teaching Note for (9-591-133). View Details

May 1986 (Revised October 1986)
Case

Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (C): The Back-End Project

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Information Management; Banking Industry; Brazil

08 Sep 2016
Video

Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) — The Burning Man Project

March 2012
Article

New Project? Don't Analyze—Act

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer and Paul B. Brown

In a predictable world, getting a new initiative off the ground typically involves analyzing the market, creating a forecast, and writing a business plan. But what about in an unpredictable environment? The authors recommend looking to those who are experts in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Managing Yourself; Project Management; Project Strategy; Risk Management

01 Sep 1992
Conference Presentation

Work Environment Differences between High Creativity and Low Creativity Projects

By: Teresa M. Amabile, R. Conti, H. Coon, M. A. Collins, J. Lazenby and M. Herron

Keywords: Creativity; Projects

1986
Other Unpublished Work

Contracting for Large, Complex Projects - HBS Technical Note: See professor

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Contracts; Projects

2007
Case

Eli Lilly's Project Resilience: Anticipating the Future of the Pharmaceutical Industry

By: Rebecca Henderson

Keywords: Projects; Strategic Planning; Pharmaceutical Industry

July 1999
Article

Planned Flexibility: Linking Anticipation and Reaction in Product Development Projects

By: Roberto Verganti

June 1994 (Revised March 1998)
Teaching Note

Molding the Impossible: the NYPRO/Vistakon Disposable Contact Lens Project TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Teaching Note for (9-694-062). View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

2003
Book

Connecting the Dots: Aligning Projects with Objectives in Unpredictable Times

By: Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Projects; Goals and Objectives

01 Apr 2001
News

Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind projects. “Most of these... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Air Transportation; Transportation; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Telecommunications; Information

2010
Article

Multi-Rater Assessment of Creative Contributions to Team Projects in Organizations

By: Giovanni B. Moneta, Teresa M. Amabile, Elizabeth Schatzel and Steve J. Kramer

This study examined the convergent and construct validity of ratings of individual creative contributions in a team context. A sample of 201 employees and supervisors, working on 26 team projects, completed the NEO-Five Factor Inventory and rated themselves and their... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Groups and Teams; Research; Performance Evaluation; Gender; Projects

July 2014
Article

Project Complexity and Systems Integration: Constructing the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games

By: Andrew Davies and Ian Mackenzie

Our study of the London Olympics 2012 construction programme showed that systems integration is one of the major challenges involved in delivery of a complex "system of systems"—or array—project. Organizations cope with complexity by decomposing a project into... View Details

Keywords: Integration; Construction; Complexity; Sports; Projects; Construction Industry; Sports Industry; London