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  • July 2014 (Revised October 2014)
  • Supplement

McKinsey & Co. - Protecting its Reputation (B)

By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
On Tuesday March 15, 2011, all 1,200 global Partners of McKinsey & Co. gathered at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center near Washington, DC for their annual Partners' conference. The atmosphere was tense as Partners, in addition to their normal agenda,... View Details
Keywords: Board; McKinsey; CONSULTING Firms; Risk; Risk Assessment; Partnerships; Insider Trading; Confidentiality; Personal Investing; Reputation; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Construction Industry; United States; California
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  • March 2006 (Revised January 2011)
  • Case

CEMEX: Rewarding the Egyptian Retailers

CEMEX has pursued an aggressive decommoditization strategy focused on its relationship with small Egyptian retailers. In particular, the strategic role and effectiveness of the Rewards Program, a tournament that rewarded the sales performance of the retailers, was... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Performance Improvement; Sales; Motivation and Incentives; Construction Industry; Egypt
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  • February 2006 (Revised December 2006)
  • Teaching Note

Otis Elevator: Accelerating Business Transformation with IT (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan
Keywords: Construction Industry
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  • October 1990 (Revised June 1991)
  • Case

Parry Homes, Inc.

By: Steven C. Wheelwright
Keywords: Construction Industry
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  • September 1982
  • Teaching Note

Boise Cascade: Manufactured Housing Division, Lafayette Region (B), Teaching Note

By: Kim B. Clark
Keywords: Construction Industry
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  • July 1990
  • Teaching Note

Modern Advanced Concrete (A)--(E), Teaching Note

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Keywords: Construction Industry
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  • September 1997
  • Case

Siam Cement Group, The: Corporate Philosophy (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Prompilai Khunaphante
In 1996, senior executives of Thailand's Siam Cement Group must decide whether to apply its management philosophy and code of ethics when doing business outside of Thailand. The status of the code in joint ventures and contractual relationships is of particular... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Decision Making; Joint Ventures; Corporate Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Policy; Construction Industry; Thailand
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  • 04 Mar 2009
  • Op-Ed

Credit is Not the Bogey

commercials. From one vantage, the credit industry is to blame for our economic woes. The solutions have centered on tightening credit—loaning only to homebuyers who can make a 20 percent down payment, returning to the standards of 20... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas & Eric S. Belsky; Construction; Construction; Construction
  • Profile

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
  • Web

In the News - Entrepreneurship

12 Feb 2025 HBS Working Knowledge Why Home Construction Has Slumped for Decades Re: William Kerr 06 Feb 2025 HBS Working Knowledge When Migrants and Locals Innovate Together, Communities Gain Re: Prithwiraj Choudhury 23 Jan 2025 AP News... 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
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

differently than many companies' product development processes, but allows this company to produce very high profit margin products that retain their margins for a very long time in an industry in which products come and go very quickly.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

neither find any markers of significant NPE pass-through to end innovators nor of a positive impact of NPEs on innovation in the industries in which they are most prevalent. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

economies. The Industry R&D Survey—Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Periodical:Journal of Technology Transfer (forthcoming) Abstract This paper details the construction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

Managing a Master

It's the night before the presidential inauguration and Washington's cavernous National Cathedral is packed to capacity. The crowd applauds enthusiastically as seven young men walk down an aisle and take their places on a center stage specially View Details
Keywords: Jeff Lazar
  • 15 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

Compounding the challenge of supporting this population shift, governments from developing to industrialized countries are limited in their capacity and political will to devise solutions to accommodate expanding urban populations.... View Details
Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Construction; Construction; Construction
  • 16 Aug 2024
  • In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

candidacy requirements and training programs. Promote constructive engagement in the workplace. Implement policies that encourage respectful dialogue and acknowledge diverse political views among employees. Provide training and resources... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • February 2022 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

BUA Group

By: John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
BUA Group must decide between investments in cement, road building, power generation, or sugar. Private businesses are important to economic development in Africa. Students must assess the competitive nature of each of these industries, the magnitude of capital... View Details
Keywords: Investing; Transportation; Strategy; Project Finance; Agribusiness; Construction; Infrastructure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa
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    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
    • 14 May 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

    air-dropped for use by paratroopers in the U.S. military. “There's a construction of creativity that involves many other actors." —Mukti Khaire Radical innovation that creates entirely new industries is... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation