Construction Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

issue here is industrial policy (on the Chinese side) competing with a lack of an industrial policy (on the US side)" This equally calibrated response from China suggests we are witnessing preparation... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog

investing, managing, and developing investments in real estate and private asset backed companies. The course will be divided into three modules. The first module will focus on portfolio construction and understanding investment risks... View Details

11 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork

construction and manufacturing with companies in dire need of this workforce. “Happy First Birthday, Greenwork!!” It’s been a bumpy two years for Sam Steyer. In February, 2020, Sam’s career as a campaign surrogate ended when his father,... View Details

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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About This Collection | Baker Library

Amy Blitz, HBS Director of Media Development for Entrepreneurial Management, conducted the interviews with path-breaking figures from a variety of industries including finance, technology, construction and... View Details

Crawford H. Greenewalt

As the tenth president of duPont Corporation, Greenewalt built the Savannah River Plant for nuclear processing, one of the largest construction projects in the United States. As CEO, Greenewalt generated a stellar return on equity... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

500,000 listings and counting. (By way of comparison, hotel industry giant Marriott offers around 530,000 rooms worldwide.) Airbnb, which has been valued at roughly $2.5 billion, recently closed a $200 million round of financing,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Construction; Construction

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

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Zayed Muhammed Yasin

Zayed Yasin spent his summer internship in a location most people would envy: Mayaguana, a small island in the Bahamas. Unfortunately, he was too absorbed in constructing an emergency services site—a project that combined his... View Details

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and community development nonprofit organization. Harvey explains that exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the continued vitality of local View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Construction

07 Mar 2017
News

From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World

Chamber of Commerce of the value and the opportunity of such a project. Quickly, the question of the leadership emerged: who to coordinate the construction work and eventually lead this new institution? It was clear from the beginning... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Mar 2006
News

Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care

2004. Brailer’s mission is to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014 and to link those records to a national medical data network. “It’s time to put health information technology center stage,” Brailer told some 300 participants at the sixth... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

February 1978
Supplement

Sierra Log Homes, Inc. (B3)

By: Michael E. Porter

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Construction Industry; United States

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November 1970 (Revised December 1971)
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Cyclops Cement Co. (Abridged)

By: Thomas R. Piper

Keywords: Construction Industry

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November 1997
Teaching Note

Macon Prestressed Concrete Co., Inc. (A, B, & C Condensed), Teaching Note

By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Construction Industry

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June 2013 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Rawabi

By: Arthur I. Segel, Sarika Agrawal, Nimrod Brandt, Daniel Kuhagen, Thomas Reithinger and Margot Eiran

Bashar Masri is developing the first new stand-alone Palestinian city 25 kilometers north of Jerusalem and 9 kilometers north of Ramallah in the West Bank on 6300 dunams (1556 acres) for 40,000 people with financial support from the Qatari investment authority and... View Details

Keywords: Housing; Urban Development; Projects; Problems and Challenges; Construction Industry; Middle East

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