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- February 2016 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
Linda Rabbitt at rand* construction
By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly
Linda Rabbitt, founder and CEO of rand* construction, walked into her office at the company's headquarters in Alexandria, VA, and closed the door behind her. It was 10:00 a.m. on Monday, September 22, 2014, and she had just addressed her staff after the sudden and... View Details
Keywords: Women And Leadership; Women Executives; Succession Planning; Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Management Succession; Construction Industry; District of Columbia
Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly. "Linda Rabbitt at rand* construction." Harvard Business School Case 416-022, February 2016. (Revised October 2016.)
- June 1994 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Morgan Construction Co. (A) (Abridged)
Keywords: Construction Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Morgan Construction Co. (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 594-112, June 1994. (Revised March 1995.)
- December 1986
- Teaching Note
Turner Construction Co., Teaching Note
Teaching Note for (9-585-031). View Details
Keywords: Construction Industry
- January 2009 (Revised April 2009)
- Case
Disaster in April: The Obligations of Kelly Construction
By: John D. Macomber, Christopher M. Gordon and Ben Creo
A construction company experiences a crane accident with multiple fatalities. The CEO, a client, and an employee must make choices to meet the company's obligations. Set in 2006, the case looks at the choices faced by board members of a museum that is an important... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Family Business; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Contracts; Crisis Management; Construction Industry
Macomber, John D., Christopher M. Gordon, and Ben Creo. "Disaster in April: The Obligations of Kelly Construction." Harvard Business School Case 209-099, January 2009. (Revised April 2009.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation
By: Leonardo D’Amico, Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, William Kerr and Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto
We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America.
Homes built per construction worker remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after
World War II, and then plummeted after 1970. The productivity boom from 1940 to 1970
shows... View Details
D’Amico, Leonardo, Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, William Kerr, and Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto. "Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-027, November 2024.
- 2010
- Article
A Categorical Construction of Ultrafilters
By: Daniel Litt, Zachary Abel and Scott Duke Kominers
Litt, Daniel, Zachary Abel, and Scott Duke Kominers. "A Categorical Construction of Ultrafilters." Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 40, no. 5 (2010): 1611–1617.
- March 2011 (Revised May 2011)
- Supplement
China Construction America (B): The Baha Mar Resort Deal
Why is a Chinese state-owned construction company building the largest mega-resort and casino in the Caribbean? This case examines the intricate deal-making by which CSCEC, China's leading global engineering and construction contractor, emerged as a key market player.... View Details
Keywords: Project Finance; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Financial Strategy; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; China; Bahamas
Abrami, Regina M., Malcolm Riddell, and Weiqi Zhang. "China Construction America (B): The Baha Mar Resort Deal." Harvard Business School Supplement 911-411, March 2011. (Revised May 2011.)
- 2003
- Conference Paper
Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction
By: John D. Macomber
Technology enthusiasts, academics, and software companies remain concerned about the slow pace of innovation in the construction industry. Tools are widely available that seem to provide eminently sensible and clearly apparent improvement to the process of design and... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Technological Innovation; Construction; Design; Performance Improvement; Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Management; Adoption; Business Model; Capital Structure; Supply Chain
Macomber, John D. "Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction." Paper presented at the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003.
- 2007
- Book
Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance
By: Rawi Abdelal
Abdelal, Rawi. Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
- January 2022
- Exercise
New Constructs Worksheet - Instructor Template
By: Charles CY Wang
Wang, Charles CY. "New Constructs Worksheet - Instructor Template." Harvard Business School Exercise 122-058, January 2022.
- January 2022
- Exercise
New Constructs Worksheet - Student Template
Wang, Charles C.Y. "New Constructs Worksheet - Student Template." Harvard Business School Exercise 122-057, January 2022.
- May 2007
- Article
Aspects of Endowment: A Query Theory of Value Construction
By: Eric Johnson, Gerald Häubl and Anat Keinan
How do people judge the monetary value of objects? One clue is provided by the typical endowment study (D. Kahneman, J. L. Knetsch, & R. H. Thaler, 1991), in which participants are randomly given either a good, such as a coffee mug, that they may later sell ("sellers")... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Forecasting and Prediction; Theory; Valuation; Loss; Ownership; Decision Choices and Conditions
Johnson, Eric, Gerald Häubl, and Anat Keinan. "Aspects of Endowment: A Query Theory of Value Construction." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 33, no. 3 (May 2007): 461–474.
- June 2018
- Supplement
Linda Rabbitt at rand* construction (Video Supplement)
By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly Baden and Julia Kelley
Groysberg, Boris, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Julia Kelley. "Linda Rabbitt at rand* construction (Video Supplement)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-718, June 2018.
- December 2022
- Article
'Just Letting You Know…': Underestimating Others' Desire for Constructive Feedback
By: Nicole Abi-Esber, Jennifer E. Abel, Juliana Schroeder and Francesca Gino
People often avoid giving feedback to others even when it would help fix a problem immediately. Indeed, in a pilot field study (N=155), only 2.6% of individuals provided feedback to survey administrators that the administrators had food or marker on their faces.... View Details
Keywords: Feedback; Helping; Prosocial Behavior; Misprediction; Relationships; Interpersonal Communication; Perspective
Abi-Esber, Nicole, Jennifer E. Abel, Juliana Schroeder, and Francesca Gino. "'Just Letting You Know…': Underestimating Others' Desire for Constructive Feedback." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 123, no. 6 (December 2022): 1362–1385.
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Construction Begins on New Exec Ed Building
Visual Appeal: The lower two floors of Tata Hall will be wrapped in glass, opening views into and through the building and establishing a visual connection between HBS and the Charles River. Courtesy Dongik Lee/William Rawn Architects View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Innovation Under Constraint: Constructing a Turnaround at Lego
All about Infrastructure: Constructing a Brighter African Future
Centre for Public Impact (BCG), May 5, 2016. View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Innovation Under Constraint: Constructing a Turnaround at Lego
- 19 Sep 2016
- Video