We examine project selection decisions of firms constrained in the number of projects they can handle at once. A new project opportunity arises every period. Taking on a project requires a commitment of uncertain duration, preventing the firm from selecting another project in subsequent periods until the commitment ends. In our dynamic game, when two firms are free of commitment, they move sequ...

More and more, the accomplishment of important tasks and goals in organizations today is being achieved through the use of projects. The phrases we hear and read about daily at our work and in conversations with our colleagues, such as “management by projects” and “project management maturity,” reflect this increasing trend in our society. The explosively rapid adoption of such a powerful tool ...

Students are required to create academic research posters on their capstone project and present in class. The following selection of the Master’s Project Capstone Posters from LIS 695 Fall 2022. It includes 12 selected for appeal.

We describe a real-world problem from the road sector in Norway. Every four years the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) have to select which road development projects to do the next four years. This portfolio of projects has to be selected from a much larger set of worthy projects. Todays practice in evaluating individual road projects is based on the well known cost-benefit analysis...

This teaching case features a situation at Belgacom, the leading telecommunications company in Belgium, end of April 2005. Wim Bouckenooghe, newly appointed finance director of Belgacom’s Network and IT division within the Fixed Line Services (FLS) segment, is troubled by the effectiveness of the selection of the discretionary IT projects, particularly the larger ones. He is especially concerne...