Donald R. Lessard

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management

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Cambridge, MA 02142

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1.

Understanding and Managing Risks in Large Engineering Projects

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4214-01
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Nov 2001
Donald R. Lessard and Roger Miller
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Ecole Polytechnique - Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering
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Risk Management, Project Finance, Institutional Strategy, Governance

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Uncertainty and Risk in Global Supply Chains

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4991-13
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Mar 2013
Donald R. Lessard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Global supply chains, global value chains, supply chain risk

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Mexican Multinationals: Insights from CEMEX

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4721-08
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 28 Oct 2008
Donald R. Lessard and Rafael Lucea
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and George Washington University - George Washington School of Business
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multination firms, developing economies

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Evolving Strategy: Risk Management and the Shaping of Large Engineering Projects

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4639-07
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Feb 2007
Roger Miller and Donald R. Lessard
Ecole Polytechnique - Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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risk management, engineering projects

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House of Project Complexity - Understanding Complexity in Large Infrastructure Projects

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5002-13
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 May 2013 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2013
Donald R. Lessard, Vivek Sakhrani and Roger Miller
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Engineering Systems Division and EMD School of Management
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projects, complexity, infrastructure, project architecture, project shaping, risks

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The Evolution of EMNCS and EMNC Thinking: A Capabilities Perspective

Forthcoming in Cuervo-Cazurra, A. and Ramamurti, R. 2014. Understanding Multinationals from Emerging Markets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2014
Donald R. Lessard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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multinational companies, emerging market multinational companies, capabilities, ownership advantages, global value chains, global strategy

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Understanding the Impacts of Indirect Stakeholder Relationships – Stakeholder Value Network Analysis and Its Application to Large Engineering Projects

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4978-12
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 30 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2016
Wen Feng, Donald R. Lessard, Edward Crawley, Olivier de Weck and Bruce Cameron
Stanford University, Global Projects Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Engineering Systems Division, and Dept of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Engineering Systems Division, and Dept of Aeronautics & Astronautics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Engineering Systems Division
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Stakeholder strategy, Project management, Value exchange, Network analysis

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Megaprojects as Games of Innovation

The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management edited by Bent Flyvbjerg, 2016, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5162-16
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 Feb 2016
Roger Miller, Donald R. Lessard and Vivek Sakhrani
EMD School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Engineering Systems Division
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Megaprojects (MPs), large engineering projects (LEPs), games of innovation, shaping, design tradespace, dynamic capabilities, integrative capabilities, complexity

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Strategic Partnering in Oil and Gas: A Capabilities Perspective

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5092-14
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rodrigo Garcia Palma, Donald R. Lessard and Aditya Singh
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Total SA
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oil and gas, strategy, capabilities, strategic groups, partnering, asset-level partnering

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The Dynamic Capabilities of Meta-Multinationals

Global Strategy Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Jun 2016
Donald R. Lessard, David Teece and Sohvi Heaton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Institute for Business Innovation and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Introduction to Special Topic Forum on Developing the Dynamic Capabilities of Global Companies Across Levels and Locations

Global Strategy Journal, 2016
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 11 Aug 2017
Donald R. Lessard, David Teece and Sohvi Heaton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Institute for Business Innovation and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Real Asset Valuation: A Back-to-Basics Approach

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 20, Issue 2, pp. 46-65, Spring 2008
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 Jul 2008
David Laughton, Raul Guerrero and Donald R. Lessard
David Laughton Consulting Ltd/School of Business, University of Alberta, Asymmetric Strategy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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