Faculty and Research

Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

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Program on Case Method and Participant-Centered Learning (PCMPCL)

More than 70 educators from a number of prominent business schools in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, including Fudan University, National Taiwan University, Peking University, Renmin University, and Tsinghua University, recently participated in the first Harvard Business School (HBS) Program on Case Method and Participant-Centered Learning (PCMPCL) on the HBS campus in Boston.

As Asia's economic power grows, so does the need for quality MBA programs that prepare students to be effective managers and leaders in the global marketplace. To help meet this demand, Harvard Business School introduced the PCMPCL Program to provide guidance and support regarding best practices in management education. The Program focuses, in particular, on the case study method of instruction and the participant-centered learning model, which, unlike lectures, places students at the center of the learning experience.

Genentech—Capacity Planning
by Daniel C. Snow, Steven C. Wheelwright, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld, Nov 22, 2005

While facilitating a complex clinical approval process over the next two to three years for a family of new cancer drugs, Genentech must develop a long-term capacity plan for a major class of new cancer products. Adding to the complexity and uncertainty is the fact that the lead time for planning, building, and certifying a new $600 million plus production-scale facility is five years. In addition, ensuring that the best process technology is incorporated into such a new plant makes the task facing David Ebersman, the senior vice-president of products operations, and his management team a daunting one. Frames the issues Ebersman and his team face and outlines the approach to date.