R＆D Project Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

The Visible Hand of History

Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), which had partnered with HBS in the 1960s and which itself has a strong legacy in this field, I was particularly thrilled to imbibe new ideas and practices at work under the Business History Initiative of HBS... View Details

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

thing not to do is make long-term bets. In budgeting for operations, for example, lots of effort is wasted by thinking that we can project with any accuracy the timing for getting the answers to the important questions that will define... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

01 Dec 2012
News

50 Years & Counting

the Bias Trap Max Bazerman "The project...taps into earlier work I've done on how joint evaluation leads to better and more ethical decisions." - MAX BAZERMAN In a research project conducted with colleagues at the Harvard Kennedy School,... View Details

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

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

of the hacker style of programming with the need to be more predictable and coordinated in managing software releases. Projects that are more closely coupled with commercial firms have experienced direct... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Jun 2017
News

The Evolving HBS Campus

Pictured, from left: Cliff Gayley and architect William Rawn of William Rawn Associates; Dean Nitin Nohria; Beth Klarman; Seth Klarman; and Richard Walsh, president and CEO of Walsh Brothers, the project construction View Details

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How to Post | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

salary from hiring organizations. Students manage the application process, and work directly with the organization on necessary information, including a detailed sponsorship letter from the organization. Please note that the last deadline... View Details

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

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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

01 Dec 2004
News

A Life by Design

design and development for the Girls Division of Mattel, Ross set out in 2001 to create a new hit toy for preteen girls. The project took on heightened importance as the company watched its lucrative Barbie franchise plateau in revenue.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

managers would have to explain to their investors why earning a negative 2 percent return would make sense as opposed to either investing or disgorging that cash to shareholders. The definition of "excess cash holdings" will be... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

2012
Chapter

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

Citation

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

Student-Profile

Hummy Song

and the productivity of the health care workforce. I am currently working on several projects that examine various operational and organizational factors that may affect worker productivity and quality of care. One of my View Details

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

01 Jun 2003
News

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

01 Sep 2004
News

Faculty Research

investigate. Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science Do the successful Mars missions mean NASA again has the right stuff? Associate Professor Alan MacCormack dissects the space agency’s “Faster, Better, Cheaper” program. His findings may help earthbound View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Career Coach

Ryan Kennedy

Ryan offers experience from across the for profit, non-profit, and government sectors. Most recently, Ryan worked at early-stage fintech startups in several roles: product manager, risk management, operations, and project management. ... View Details

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

Profile

Kelly Carson

many KU students who wanted to improve their second-language skills. My idea was to bring them together to form a mutual partnership." The resulting program became Project Bridge, in which KU students tutor community ESL students in... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

The Long View

in the academic literature, social scientists should focus their research on larger public problems. "That resonated with me," says Moss, who in 2005 founded the Tobin Project in collaboration with Poorvu Family Professor of View Details

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