Construction - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

Wheeler. "Even after making a good deal, people wonder if they could have done better." Such self-doubt is a costly distraction. "It gets in the way of constructive engagement and relationship-building." Staying In The Game Being centered... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

high-tech firms. In 2004, however, the cap expired, and the limit fell back to 65,000. As might be expected, there was an increase of lobbying on the issue following the decrease as companies tried to get the cap raised once again. To quantify these dynamics, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 17

particular, we find that elite institutions in Vietnam encourage the construction of broader policy-making coalitions, have more competitive selection processes, and place more constraints on executive decision making than exists by way... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

the pandemic’s suddenness caught many without sufficient ready cash. A real estate CEO noted: “We had ongoing construction and needed to pay our contractors but were not sure that we would receive payments as planned from our customers... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

08 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

help him understand themes across the deals that can inform construction of new deals in the future. Topics include unsupervised learning; similarity and proximity; K-means clustering, with measures of Euclidean distance and cosine... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 29

progress of CityCenter, an $11 billion project in Las Vegas said to be the largest private construction project in the history of the United States. As in the prior observations of this project, issues around measurement of demand,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

from someone who may not have your best interests at heart. Giving and receiving effective feedback is essential to constructive interactions and a necessity for leaders who want to empower other leaders to sustain high levels of... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

they would flatter rather than intimidate women. Constructing and maintaining a cosmetics counter in a department store was expensive, as were hiring and training sales representatives, buying advertising space, creating window displays,... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

03 Feb 2020
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?

leaders focus on making others better as they drive positive change. To maintain your credentials as a rebel leader, she recommends: (1) “seek out the new,” both for yourself and your employees, (2) encourage constructive dissent, (3)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

explore the factors that enable hybrids to meet and sustain their social mission, while also engaging in commercial activities to support their operations. The researchers began by constructing a database containing annual data on more... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

a 401(k) program. Boeing threatened to move construction of the 777X jetliner to another state without the concession. Funding The Future Even so, companies are still on the hook for paying benefits to those employees who have already... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services

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 of a firm-year panel dataset... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

construct a generic model of a refugee camp economy. Camp economies are influenced by host country policies, such as restrictions on refugees' movement and work, as well as by the physical and economic isolation of the site. Moreover,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Aug 2006
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

Summing Up There's no need to rethink important economic constructs just because of the growth of the Long Tail phenomenon and its impact on demand and supply. Or is there? That was part of the debate that occupied respondents to this... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

users can add context or explain why a post might be misleading. Such features, she believes, may constructively serve to amplify the reputational costs of sharing misinformation. “Our results suggest that sharing information that gets... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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 another course focus. In a new... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Harvard University's Real Estate Academic Initiative website. If Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Design seem miles apart both literally and culturally, John Macomber is determined to bridge the... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Construction; Construction; Construction

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need

The credit crunch and subsequent collapse of the nonprime mortgage market claimed many victims, including hundreds of thousands of low- and moderate-income Americans who lost their homes and savings. Today, regulators and policymakers are debating ways to reform the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Construction; Construction

June 1983 (Revised August 1983)
Teaching Note

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

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Keywords: Construction Industry; Construction Industry

Citation

August 2016
Case

Building Smart Neighborhoods at Bouygues

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Bertrand Moingeon, Guo Bai and Jean-François Harvey

Can a consortium of 16 organizations, including multinational corporations, local government agencies, and startups, turn a rundown Paris suburb into a “smart” (ecologically viable, high-tech, livable) neighborhood? This case explores how Bouygues Immobilier led such a... View Details