R＆D Project Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1997
News

Banking on HBS

the other two in Washington - spread out over approximately six months. A seventh week must be spent in the field, living in a project in a village or poor area within a developing country. Participants are drawn from a pool of one... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms Course Number 6453 Senior Lecturer Jason Pananos Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 12 2-hour Sessions Project Overview: VCSME is a field course focused on operating and... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges

faculty members. Finding “Hidden Workers” Even before the pandemic upended the workforce, American companies complained about the “skills gap” that left essential jobs unfilled while millions of Americans remained unemployed. HBS’s View Details

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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

01 Jun 2023
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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 Sep 2014
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Making a Statement

female subjects as the protagonists, I could identify with this immediately. It was a project I could readily support.” So could Bethell, a managing director and founding member of Bain Capital in London,... View Details

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Sparsh Bhargava

they learned that they had been overestimating emissions by thirty to forty percent. As a result, they realized they had room for future expansion within regulatory guidelines." After Cornell, Sparsh assumed various roles at Procter & Gamble, developing a... View Details

24 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Internship In Action

because I’ve had the opportunity to pitch the solution to different markets and hopefully will be able to launch it before I leave in 2 weeks! This experience has been enriching in so many ways: First - I fully managed the View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes

Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

12 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

League in the MIT Sloan Management Review. "As research on the National Football League reveals, sometimes the specific nature of a job determines whether a great performer at one company can replicate that performance at another," they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports

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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Influencing Practice | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Education Courses Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation (DNPI) Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) Summer Institute PELP Accelerating Board... View Details

2012
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Structuring Consulting Firms

By: Tim Morris, Heidi K. Gardner and N. Anand

This chapter presents a model of the way in which consulting and other professional-service firms organize themselves and grow. We will argue that the fundamental structural-design challenge for consulting firms, like other professional firms, is to adapt appropriately... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Service Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Projects; Groups and Teams; Consulting Industry; Service Industry

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Oliver Bladek

Early in his career as a consultant with McKinsey, Oliver Bladek recognized the hard impact of so-called "soft" skills. "I was working on a major, $10-billion oil project that included everything from drilling thousands of... View Details

18 Sep 2017
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Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact

commitment to social impact. He also wanted to know what motivated it, as well of its ultimate impact. In March 2016, Stevenson and a team of researchers launched a project to better understand and communicate that impact. To date, the... View Details

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

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

zone. It's how financial managers cover the possibility of unlikely but high impact events. Why would asset owners—never mind groups of citizens—not want to use a probability-based approach to resilience of physical portfolios in the face... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

February 2010 (Revised May 2010)
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Bardhaman (A): Shrachi and the West Bengal Housing Board

By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari

A real estate developer decides whether to enter into a public private partnership with the government of West Bengal to develop a township on farmland. The decisions include whether to expand operations from the company's base in Kolkata to Bardhaman, 100 km away;... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Decisions; Private Equity; Design; Housing; Infrastructure; Projects; Real Estate Industry; West Bengal

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The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports - Course Catalog

those properties together introduce a unique set of challenges and opportunities for managers. Subsequent modules explore: How can entertainment businesses best allocate resources across a portfolio of projects and for one View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Fast Forward

Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2003
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South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

can adapt it to their situation,” she observes. “It’s a question of managing the projects and assembling strong groups of volunteers to achieve quality output for each project.” Twenty–seven volunteers... View Details

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

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