R＆D Project Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees' Career Development

can do to grow their skills and what extra opportunities they can take on,” said Fitzpatrick. Then, as extra projects will often be within different teams, communication between managers is also critical.... View Details

12 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get

begins by adjusting her own mindset to one of two possibilities: the search for an individual contributor with certain kinds of expertise, or the quest for managers capable of exercising leadership.For the individual experts, Fitzpatrick... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

Bullard suggested that "Ruthless realism is, itself, pathological . The professional pilot denies a crash is inevitable until a second before impact, and that ability to believe one can save the ship is critical to the attitude of actually saving it."... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

May 1990 (Revised December 1998)
Case

Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor (Abridged)

By: Linda A. Hill

Covers the same material concerning the specific transfer of technology as described in the longer version but summarizes the environmental and organizational context of the transfer. Most appropriate when the instructor wishes to focus on the action questions. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Conflict Management; Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Employees; Competitive Strategy; Projects

Citation

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01 Feb 2002
News

Design Fair

Second-year students in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective MBA course Managing Product Development presented their final projects at the tenth annual Design Fair in December. Among those who... View Details

Keywords: MIT Media Lab; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

oriented should include some aspect of social equity and community engagement. And still be a profitable business.” “We’re still deciding what projects I’ll work on,” Michael says. But his formal title is, Special Assistant to the CEO,... View Details

14 Feb 2018
Blog Post

Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Verdell Walker, Sesame Workshop

runs. It’s been eye-opening to see the work that goes into securing philanthropic funding, developing and implementing impact programs, and managing the operations of a nonprofit. Why is the Leadership Fellows Program different from other... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Real Estate Private Equity Course Number 1484 Senior Lecturer Nori Gerardo Lietz Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Project Career Focus This course is intended for any student interested in a career in private... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way

“Leading and managing in the complex and dynamic environment of an urban K–12 school system is an incredibly difficult challenge,” observes HBS Dean Kim B. Clark. “One of the toughest problems is that although there are many excellent... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 1997
News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

Professor James K. Sebenius, examines the change process through a negotiating lens. The dramatized negotiation involves interactions between a manager responsible for a critical project and other View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

mistakes") while attempting to achieve the goals. Joe Violette advised that, in his experience, stretch goals "have only succeeded (when) they are developed by the project team" (vs. management). The downside of stretch as... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Maya Burhanpurkar | MBA

Fund. What began as a research project at the University of Toronto developed into a finished product: an autonomous wheelchair for both hospital and consumer markets. My work as a Venture Partner with Contrary Capital and an intern at... View Details

30 Mar 2015
News

Creating a sustainable world

Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) is founder and managing partner of Ecomobilité Ventures, a 25 million multi-corporate fund committed to green mobility. Herlaut, who in fall of 2014 received the French National Order of Merit for her support... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Green as Gold

though, and you’ll find that Hamilton has been renewed by a marriage of technology and environmental sustainability. “Basically, the only thing we kept was the building’s exterior shell,” says Jason Carlson, project View Details

Keywords: Paul Massari; Specialty Trade Contractors; Construction

September 2006 (Revised April 2007)
Supplement

Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (C)

By: Boris Groysberg, Christopher Marquis and Ayesha Kanji

Supplements the (A) case. The (C) case includes Keller's actual 2006 mid-year and self evaluations. View Details

Keywords: Projects; Management; Leadership; Organizations; Situation or Environment; Competition; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation; Consulting Industry

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27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210041-PDF-ENG Merger Integration at Bank of America: The TrustWeb Project Gary P. Pisano and Bradley R. StaatsHarvard Business School Case 610-054 This case explores View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

look at how companies could more effectively leverage structured, randomized experiments to inform decision-making. His goal: Enable C-suite leaders to avoid the blind spots and blunders that can occur when making decisions based on data and large-scale tests. The... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

Profile

Aline Camargo

was able to share my thoughts and concerns with friends, professors, career coaches, alumni and MBA administration managers who helped me much to brainstorm about decisions and life paths that would make me an effective leader and a happy... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail; Entertainment / Media

01 Oct 2021
News

Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region

With the help of HBS’s Japan Research Center, Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual reunion to mark the 10-year anniversary of an annual Immersive Field Course in Japan. A decade ago, a group of 22 MBA students from Japan asked Professor of View Details

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