Project management

Three myths that impede their proper use - and three strategies to help your team make the most of the practice.

Many companies approach product development as if it were manufacturing, trying to control costs and improve quality by applying zero-defect, efficiency-focused...

Challenged by world-class competitors, manufacturing companies in the United States have greatly improved their product development efforts as well as...

Your tech team can't be truly agile if HR, finance, and management aren't.

The pain will be worth it.

Hitting big targets starts with getting the details right.

Companies increasingly use external specialists to do key tasks. Processes don’t have to suffer.

Research identifies 10 skills that will have a disproportionate impact on performance.

It's easy to measure time and budget; it's not so easy to measure business outcomes and whether you're on the right track to meet them.

Colossal County Hospital was coming apart at the seams. With dozens of newly hired doctors, nurses, and technicians, millions of dollars of equipment on the road, and patient appointments backed up for months, the new facility was impossible to use. For one thing, construction wasn’t finished, and much of what was complete was faulty. Worse […]

When my children were young and it was past their bedtimes, I used to give them a choice: Either walk to your room, or be carried. While this gave them control over how they would go to bed, it left them no choice about the end result. In other words while I wanted to give […]

A simple framework to manage chaos, get along better, and reduce stress.

Author Doug Most explores the race to build America's first subways.

See if you can determine where the team went wrong in this fictionalized case study.

New research on the dark side of early success.

In addition to being powerful tools of persuasion and influence, emotions ground us in our humanity and give us important data about our environments.

Businesses need better planning to make their supply chains more agile and resilient. After explaining the shortcomings of traditional planning systems,...

Projects have displaced operations as the economic engine of our times, but despite this shift, many leaders still undervalue project management. Companies need to reinvent their approach, embracing a new set of tools and principles.

You need to understand it even if it's not your job.

It will help you bridge the gap between planning and execution.

The adoption of information technology (IT) in public services in India has been uneven and fraught with numerous difficulties. The case describes a context...

A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech--all in one place. Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy--new technologies...

Craft winning business plans and get buy in for your ideas. A well-crafted business plan generates enthusiasm for your idea and boosts your odds of success--whether...

Describes several principles for improving the effectiveness of internal task forces. Suggests a number of guidelines for starting up a task force, conducting...

Imagine if the multinational hotel groups had founded Airbnb, or the big auto companies had launched Uber and Tesla, or Blockbuster had created Netflix....

This case study underscores the complex problem-solving using digital transformation and associated change management. The case was set at the beginning...

Broadband-X, is a small-sized electronic contract manufacturing company. The company had been using QuickBooks accounting package and Excel sheets to...

Appropriate for courses in operations strategy and general management. Some 400 Fire & Security branches are given the opportunity for improvement. Executives...

MEET YOUR GOALS--ON TIME AND ON BUDGET. How do you rein in the scope of your project when you've got a group of demanding stakeholders breathing down...

Supplement to case W16649.

On June 25, 1950, the US Ambassador to the Republic of Korea received an alarming call from his deputy chief, E.F. Drumright, warning him that the communists...

Supplement to case HEC138. This two-part case study of a Canadian knitwear SME called Ça Va de Soi (CVDS) presents a real-life situation: an IT project...

Everyone leads projects. Learn how to manage them more effectively. If you read nothing else on leading projects large and small, read these 10 articles....

Enterprise Community Partners must determine whether to rebuild the Lafitte housing projects in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, and if so, how to mitigate...

Describes the initial efforts at a film production plant to shift from a traditional QC inspection mentality to a worker-based process control mentality....

Founded by Mr. Yuen Shu-Wah in 1982, Manfield Coatings Co. Ltd. was a niche player producing customized industrial coatings for various industrial products....

Many companies are exploring mass customization as a way to demonstrate market leadership and capture price premiums. Examines Adidas' recent "mi adidas"...

In March 2009, Ulrich Bez, CEO of British carmaker Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd., found himself grappling with some tough news from Switzerland. The company...

The case is based on a real $25 million project at a major U.S.-based computer manufacturer. For confidentiality reasons the company has been disguised...

This case chronicles a successful digital transformation in Russia, where JSC Raiffeisenbank, the Russian branch of the Austrian parent company, reinvented...

Three myths that impede their proper use - and three strategies to help your team make the most of the practice.

Many companies approach product development as if it were manufacturing, trying to control costs and improve quality by applying zero-defect, efficiency-focused...

The adoption of information technology (IT) in public services in India has been uneven and fraught with numerous difficulties. The case describes a context...

Challenged by world-class competitors, manufacturing companies in the United States have greatly improved their product development efforts as well as...

Your tech team can't be truly agile if HR, finance, and management aren't.

The pain will be worth it.

A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech--all in one place. Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy--new technologies...

Hitting big targets starts with getting the details right.

Companies increasingly use external specialists to do key tasks. Processes don’t have to suffer.

Research identifies 10 skills that will have a disproportionate impact on performance.