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October 2002 (Revised May 2003)
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Why Study Large Projects?

Explains why project companies in general and large projects in particular represent an interesting and managerially relevant subset of total capital investment and why they merit academic research and instruction. Serves as an introductory note for the Large-scale... View Details

Keywords: Management; Project Finance; Investment; Projects; Capital

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26 Jan 2015
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The Silenced Connecticut Sex-Abuse Case

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he holds a master's degree in business administration (MBA) from Harvard. Allie Hyans Allie began her career at Celgene as an intern while she was an undergraduate biomedical engineering student. Though she started out in the lab, she soon realized that she was more... View Details

June 2007 (Revised July 2008)
Case

Kinder Morgan, Inc. - Management Buyout

Kinder Morgan, Inc., was a leader in the transportation and distribution of energy throughout North America, managing a master limited partnership with over $35 billion in infrastructure assets. In the summer of 2006, Richard Kinder, the founder and chairman of Kinder... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Fairness; Governing and Advisory Boards; Privatization; Partners and Partnerships; Conflict of Interests; North America

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Janice H. Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. She currently serves as coursehead for the new MBA required course, Data Science for Managers. She serves as program chair for the HBS Executive Education International Women’s Foundation and Women’s... View Details

Keywords: apparel; distribution; e-commerce industry; manufacturing; retailing; textiles; transportation

21 Aug 2023
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You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

thinking about stretch assignments and rotations. Allow folks to try new things that interest them, separate from their main responsibilities. Then you’ll have both the employee buy-in and the process already in place to think flexibly... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

25 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

fields that they’ve performed well in these fields.” It’s unclear whether women would feel better about their abilities if they received repeated rounds of positive feedback, rather than one piece of good news. “I’d be interested to find... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Cognizant 2.0: Embedding Community and Knowledge Into Work Processes

Knowledge management has been a high priority for Cognizant Technology Solutions since its inception since its global delivery model requires the global sharing of knowledge. Its first major tool was called the Knowledge Management Appliance but as Web 2.0 tools came... View Details

29 Nov 2018
Blog Post

The HBS Community - Student Initiatives

discussions start with these topics, they end up moving in a variety of directions based on the different backgrounds and interests of the dinner guests. The group is always a random mixture of second year students (ECs), first year... View Details

27 Oct 2014
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The power of peers

20 Aug 2012
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Manufacturing

11 Sep 2012
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Why You Need Charisma

28 Sep 2012
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The economics of video games

19 Sep 2011
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Redefining the middle manager's job

26 Apr 2017
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The Restaurants Hurt Most by Minimum-Wage Hikes

22 Jun 2015
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How To Stop Working All The Time And Get More Done

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Keywords: Health Care

Research Summary

Performance Management Systems in Healthcare

By: Susanna Gallani

Performance management in healthcare provider organizations presents particular challehges, motivate by historical industry practices, market structures and dynamics, and cultural peculiarities. Through her research studies and case studies, Prof. Gallani explores... View Details

Keywords: Performance Management; Compensation; Incentive Systems; Burnout; Health Industry

September 2010 (Revised May 2011)
Case

Leadership in Corporate Reporting Policy at Tata Steel

By: Karthik Ramanna and Rachna Tahilyani

The case describes the challenges faced by Tata Steel, India's largest private sector steel company, as it transitions from Indian GAAP to IFRS. It first describes those challenges in the context of the institutional voids that make IFRS adoption difficult in India.... View Details