Project Finance Portal

The Baker Library at the Harvard Business School (HBS) has created this all-encompassing portal intended to serve as a reference guide for project finance students, faculty, and researchers. The resources on the site are divided into two main sections. The Research and Publications list is directed at the academic community and includes bibliographies of articles, books and book chapters, and trade magazines, as well as … [ Read more ]

Knowledge Management: Four Practical Steps

Most companies underestimate the importance of intangible assets such as knowledge, creativity, ideas, and relationships. All these account for more value in our economy than the tangibles. Yet it’s difficult for companies to get their arms around intangibles, so they rarely protect them as carefully as they do bricks and hardware. What would you do if your smartest people suddenly left? How can you ensure … [ Read more ]

Building Value by Measuring the Immeasurable

In this series Baruch Lev, of NYU’s Stern School of Business, alerts us to potentially hidden sources of value in our organizations – the intangibles. As the value of these assets become an increasingly important component of total value, management must understand how to not only maximize their value, but also how to communicate it to capital markets.

As Lev explains in Episode 1, intangibles … [ Read more ]

As Leaders, Women Rule

Twenty-five years after women first started pouring into the labor force–and trying to be more like men in every way, from wearing power suits to picking up golf clubs–new research is showing that men ought to be the ones doing more of the imitating…That’s the essential finding of a growing number of comprehensive management studies conducted by consultants across the country…By and large, the studies … [ Read more ]

Spotlight on Paul Quintas and Knowledge Management

Paul Quintas is Professor of Knowledge Management at the Open University Business School (OUBS) and founding Director of the Management of Knowledge and Innovation Research Unit. In this Spotlight, Professor Quintas talks to editor Sarah Powell about the concept of knowledge management and its development, and his role and research in the field.

New Economy or Old Economy, a Shakeout is a Shakeout

Still wondering why the dot.com bubble burst? And what’s going to happen to all those smaller bubbles, the approximately 12,000 dot-coms that are still alive, many of them just barely? In a paper entitled, Shakeouts in the New Economy, Wharton marketing professor George Day and co-author Adam Fein analyze the causes of the bust and tell how to pick which companies will survive the downturn. … [ Read more ]

Larry Bird, former NBA Player, Coach

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop (those talents) into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish goals.

A Wireless Revolution Called Bluetooth

Article provides a plain-english look at a new wireless technology that has the potential to shake up several markets.

Lord Kelvin (British physicist)

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. But when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Megan Smith

President of PlanetOut Partners, whose planetout.com website has become the Web’s premier destination for the gay and lesbian communities.

Sanjiv S. Sidhu

Founder and chairman of i2 Technologies Inc., the Dallas-based maker of e-commerce software.

Aida Alvarez

Former head of the Small Business Administration; former investment banker at Bear Stearns and First Boston

Pamela Thomas-Graham

former partner with McKinsey and now CEO of CNBC.com and executive vice president of NBC.

There’s Still a Lot of Life Left in These Old Economy Companies

David Komansky, chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch & Co., finds it ironic that the head of a financial services firm gets asked to lecture on the new economy these days. “Our company has been called ‘a relic from the Cro-Magnon era’,” he said during a visit to Wharton. “But because of the patterns that started in the last year, some of the virtues of … [ Read more ]

David Komansky

Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch & Co.

Steve Ballmer

Microsoft CEO and long-time right arm for Bill Gates

Bob Young

chairman and co-founder of Red Hat

Michael Porter

oh so famous strategy professor from HBS.