Project Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2006
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East to West

(“Shiggi”) Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired “committee system” for its board of directors — the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by Professor Lynn Paine and Japan Research Office... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Mar 2003
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All in a Day's Work

through a day on the job to find out: Mardie Oakes, an HBS Service Leadership Fellow at Boston Community Capital, a community development financial institution, and Paul Sternhell, an entry-level manager at Samsung Electronics. Cookies... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

February 2012 (Revised April 2012)
Case

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation

By: V.G. Narayanan and Saloni Chaturvedi

Keywords: Leadership; Projects; Management; Crisis Management; Public Administration Industry; India

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December 2001 (Revised April 2003)
Case

Poland's A2 Motorway

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane

Autostrada Wielkopolska S.A. (AWSA) is a consortium of 18 firms that won a concession to build and operate Poland's first private toll road. In June 2000, AWSA's chief financial officer, Wojciech Gebicki, is preparing for a meeting with the projects' lead bankers to... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Cost vs Benefits; Project Finance; Projects; Construction Industry; Transportation Industry; Poland

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21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

their willingness to pay for two product characteristics and marginal costs are increasing with the quality level chosen on each attribute. We show that while firms seek to manage competition through product positioning, their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2001
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Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)

venture funds, he has eloquently and vigorously made the case for this source of economic development in a continent long dominated by big business and risk-averse managers and investors. Born and raised in The Hague, the son of a... View Details

Keywords: Georges F. Doriot; John G. McLean; Alumni Achievement Award; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Mar 2007
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Security Chief

Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at managing a growth business.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Management; Management

01 Mar 2011
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Tax and Grow

currently have an incentive to keep money abroad. A temporary holiday of the repatriation tax coupled with the tax on excess cash holdings would help ensure that the disgorged cash would be used productively in the United States. Coupling these policies provides a... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

01 Sep 2004
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Home Sweet (Modular) Home

cracks began to appear in its carefully crafted production plan. The first order of modular homes languished on the assembly line for months as Greentech struggled to resolve a number of serious production-control issues. Stuntz now has hired a new production-control... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Sep 2020
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Ink: The Habit of Innovation

authors suggest a strategy to determine whether valuable resources in your operation are being drained by projects that aren’t viable. Zombie Amnesty Do you feel like you don’t have sufficient resources to take promising ideas forward? It... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains

realities. “In recent years, the student appetite for entrepreneurial ventures has increased significantly,” says HBS professor of management practice Myra M. Hart, who has studied the career trends of HBS graduates. “The contest gives... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

February 2000
Teaching Note

Soul of a New Machine, The TN

By: David A. Garvin and Jeffrey Berger

Teaching Note for (1-682-076). Reprint not in system. View Details

Keywords: Management; Management Style; Projects

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01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference

in the midtown Manhattan headquarters of Halcyon/Alan B. Slifka Management Company. In discussing the success of his investment firm, he points out that his traders are not only innovative and individualistic but also cooperative. When... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Dec 2014
News

@Soldiers Field

arm might lift a barbell.” The 229 RCs who signed up for lunch roulette were connected with three perfectly randomized HBS classmates. Hosted by the Student Association and the Digital Initiative, the project used an open source computer... View Details

Keywords: John Shad (MBA 1949); Educational Services

01 Dec 2000
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Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology

graduate of Harvard Law School and a former consultant in management and negotiation strategy, Price says that HBS is interested in developing "technologically appropriate" approaches that will reach an optimum number of people with... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

says. “We would be in Mrs. Bradley’s library with the card tables set up, and the phone would ring. We’d pick up and say, ‘Research Counsel of Washington, may I help you?’ The absurdity of the situation is inescapable, right? But you have to View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

August 2001
Supplement

Teradyne-Managing Discontinuous Change

By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout

Presents the top executives of Teradyne. Alex d'Arbeloff, the CEO who drove the project, Jim Prestridge, the vice chairman (and top engineer), Owen Robbins, vice chairman and CFO, and Ed Rogus, the division head who wouldn't fund Aurora. View Details

Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Projects; Management Teams

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01 Dec 2017
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Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence

from throughout their first year to on-site, customer-related projects with companies around the world. Before their trip, Franklin’s six-person team tested their research methodology in interviews with Boston-area teens and parents.... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

company located in eight countries. “With close to 800 interviews conducted in a variety of languages, more than 3,500 survey results, and thousands of pages of archival material, a project of this scope would have been nearly impossible... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training