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　　时　间：2015年9月22日（周二）上午10:15

　　地　点：清水河校区经管楼C101（EMBA教室）

　　主　题：Project Management: A Research Agenda and Resolving Parkinson's Law

　　主讲人：俄亥俄州立大学  Nicholas G. Hall教授

　　主办单位：人力资源部教师发展中心

　　承办单位：经济与管理学院

　　内容简介：

　　Project management has recently experienced remarkable growth in business interest, as shown by a 1000% increase in membership in the Project Management Institute since 1996. Today, one-fifth of the world’s economic activity, with an annual value of $12T, is organized as a project. This growth is largely attributable to new applications, for example IT, R&D, new product and service development and corporate change management, with different characteristics and requiring new methodologies. Yet projects still routinely fail to deliver on time, on cost and within scope. This talk outlines an agenda for project management research, including a detailed discussion of open issues that are both practically important and theoretically interesting. Within this agenda, one important topic is the widely observed behavioral phenomenon Parkinson’s Law, which wastes the benefit from potential early completion of tasks. We describe an incentive compatible mechanism to resolve Parkinson’s Law for projects planned under the critical path method (CPM). This scheme can be applied to any project where the tasks that are allocated to a single task owner are independent.  Our scheme also resolves Student Syndrome. We further describe an incentive compatible mechanism to resolve Parkinson’s Law for projects planned under critical chain project management (CCPM). The incentive payments received by all task owners under CCPM weakly dominate those under CPM, with the same guaranteed payment to the project manager. Finally, we develop an incentive compatible mechanism for repeated projects, where commitments to early completion continue for subsequent projects.

　　主讲人简介：

　　Nicholas G. Hall is a professor in the departments of Management Sciences and Integrated Systems Engineering. He came to Ohio State in 1983 from the University of California-Berkeley. His research interests are in tactical issues within operations management, especially project management, scheduling, supply chain incentives and pricing, and in applications of operations research. He has published over 70 articles in the journals Operations Research,Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Interfaces and several other journals.

　　Hall has served for a total of over 40 years on the editorial boards ofOperations Research and Management Science. He has given over 300 academic presentations, including 89 invited presentations in 20 countries, and seven conference keynote presentations. A 2008 citation study ranked him 13th among 1,376 scholars in the operations management field. He won the Fisher Pacesetters’ Faculty Research Award in 1998 and 2005. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Peoples’ Republic of China.

　　Hall has served as president of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management society, and is currently treasurer of INFORMS. He served for five years on the State of Ohio Steel Industry Advisory Council. He has been a visiting professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

　　Hall teaches project management, one of the most popular MBA electives at Fisher, a modeling course, and several advanced PhD-level courses. He is the owner of a consulting business, CDOR, which provides business solutions to Ohio business and government communities, as well as advice on intellectual property issues for New York City law firms.

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