Project Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
News

Hawes Hall Groundbreaking

the School in creating a truly magnificent educational facility." Beverly Hawes expressed the family's enthusiasm for the project and the hope that the students who will be educated in Hawes Hall will use the knowledge that they gain "to... View Details

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

01 Jun 2008
News

Immersion Program Digs Deep

“It was case teaching in real time,” she says, describing how students were divided into teams and sent out into Shanghai with Chinese translators to complete a variety of one-day field projects with the goal of identifying business... View Details

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

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

talks about "open innovation" and his new book. Silverthorne: What's the one take-away you would like your business reader to walk away with from the book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology? Chesbrough: Innovation... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Trade Off

started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not the natural order of things. Globalization is a project, and View Details

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

countries with limited resources, implies that project finance should continue to loom large in the years ahead. Despite the magnitude of annual investment and recent growth, however, there has been relatively little academic work in this... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

2009
Working Paper

Authority versus Persuasion

By: Eric J. Van den Steen

This paper studies a principal's trade-off between using persuasion versus using interpersonal authority to get the agent to "do the right thing"; from the principal's perspective (when the principal and agent openly disagree on the right course of action). It shows... View Details

Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence

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01 Jun 2007
News

James McKenney Remembered

on information and computer systems, control, environmental and nonprofit management, and production and operations management (POM). He was POM chairman from 1968 to 1972. In retirement, McKenney continued his research on View Details

Keywords: Information

24 Apr 2014
News

Driving the family business onto a global stage

Anand Mahindra (AB 1977, MBA 1981), as chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), has grown the family business into a thriving Indian multinational automotive manufacturing corporation, creating jobs for thousands. Not... View Details

04 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

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

How will my children learn via Zoom? We interviewed 10 CEOs in July about how they are managing the unprecedented stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then checked in with them again at the end of 2020. The interviewees hail from... View Details

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

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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the critical success factors for a TDABC analysis? A: There are four key success factors: executive support, a capable project manager, input from the finance team, and clinical buy-in. Q: What makes a successful TDABC View Details

30 Jan 2012
News

Shopping Around

projects merely to the ground-breaking phase,” she said. Calabrese currently manages the firm’s twenty designer outlet villages across the UK and Europe, a portfolio that is scheduled to expand to 21 by the... View Details

Keywords: real estate; shopping; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2007
News

A Roadmap for Moms

process? You can’t just ask for a job if you don’t know what you’re looking for. You have to do a self-assessment. The book has a worksheet so you can do that. The other key issue is confidence. Women have to realize that confidence is an internal game. You can View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Jun 2023
News

Righting the Ship

When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the headquarters of the NAVSEA Warfare Centers as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was charged with leading divisional managers at each of... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jun 2013
News

Minding The Gap

Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés Alonso for a prized spot on the team that represents the district at a weeklong summer institute run by Harvard's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP). Harcum's assessment of the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2008
News

Reimagining China and India

probably wrong. And the reason it’s wrong is that there is a strong incentive for many of the things going on in China to be concealed — not just from outsiders but from insiders as well. The outward projection is one of stability,... View Details

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

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

Innovation and experimentation are vital to the longevity of any organization, says Stefan H. Thomke in his new book Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation. In this interview, Thomke, an associate professor of technology and... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

01 Mar 2010
News

Lords of Strategy

John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details

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

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

his career in renewable energy and came to HBS with seven years of experience in early-stage project development and due diligence for U.S. government energy resilience projects. His work history includes research, finance, and leadership... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

October 2009 (Revised January 2014)
Teaching Note

Sustainability at Millipore (TN)

By: Michael W. Toffel

Teaching Note for [610012]. View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Organizational Structure; Investment; Projects; Performance Improvement; Framework; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Disclosure; Biotechnology Industry