Harold Kerzner (born ca 1940) is an American

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

, management consultant, Emeritus Professor of Systems Management at Baldwin Wallace University, and Sr. Executive Director for Project Management at the International Institute for Learning, known for his work in the field of

project management Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. Th ...

Education

Kerzner received an MS and PhD at the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

and an MBA at

Utah State University Utah State University (USU or Utah State) is a public land-grant research university in Logan, Utah. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. With nearly 20,000 students living on or near campus, USU is Utah's ...

Career

Kerzner started as an engineer at the

Thiokol Corporation Thiokol (variously Thiokol Chemical Corporation(/Company), Morton Thiokol Inc., Cordant Technologies Inc., Thiokol Propulsion, AIC Group, ATK Thiokol, ATK Launch Systems Group; finally Orbital ATK before becoming part of Northrop Grumman) was an ...

, where he worked in program management and project engineering. Later he started his academic career at the

teaching engineering, and afterwards at

teaching business administration. In the early 1980s, he became Professor of Systems Management at Baldwin-Wallace College, now Baldwin Wallace University. In 1998, Kerzner received the Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to project management from the

, and the

granted him the Distinguished Recent Alumni Award. The

Project Management Institute The Project Management Institute (PMI, legally Project Management Institute, Inc.) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit professional organization for project management. Overview PMI serves more than five million professionals including over 680,00 ...

, the Northeast Ohio Chapter, annually grants the Kerzner Award for excellent achievements in project management to a company or individual.Harold Kerzner, Ph.D.
at Baldwin Wallace University, 2013. Accessed April 3, 2013 Kerzner is the Executive Director for International Institute for Learning (IIL).International Institute for Learning
/ref> With the company, he has authored numerous books about Project Management.

Selected publications

Textbooks

* 1979. ''Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling'' New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold * 1980. ''Project Management for Bankers''. Van Nostrand Reinhold * 1982. ''Project management for executives''. New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold * 1984. ''Project Management for the Small and Medium Sized Businesses''. With Hans Thamhain. Van Nostrand Reinhold * 1985, ''Project Management Policy and Strategy''. With David Cleland. Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishers * 1985. ''A project management dictionary of terms''. With David I. Cleland. New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold * 1986. ''Engineering Team Management''. With David Cleland. Van Nostrand Reinhold * 1986. ''Project Management Operating Guidelines''. With Hans Thamhain. Van Nostrand Reinhold * 1998. ''In Search of Excellence in Project Management''. Van Nostrand Reinhold * 1999. ''Project management: strategic design and implementation''. With David I. Cleland * 2002. ''Strategic planning for project management using a project management maturity model'' * 2009. ''What Functional Managers Need to Know about Project Management. ''With Frank P. Saladis * 2009. ''What Executives Need to Know about Project Management.'' With Frank P. Saladis * 2009. ''Value-Driven Project Management. ''With Frank P. Saladis * 2010. ''Managing Complex Projects.'' * 2010. ''Project Management-Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence,'' 2nd Ed. * 2011. ''Project Management Metrics, KPIs and Dashboards, 1st Edition;'' 2nd Ed. 2013 * 2012. ''Project management case studies'' * 2014. ''Project-Based Problem Solving & Decision Making. ''With Belack. * 2014. ''Project Recovery: Case Studies and Techniques for Overcoming Project Failure'' *2014. Project Management Best Practices, 3rd Ed. *2015. PM 2.0 *2017. Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling and Controlling, 12th Ed. *2017. Project Management Workbook, 12th Ed. *2017. Project Management Case Studies, 5th Ed. *2017. Project Management Metrics, KPIs and Dashboards, 3rd Ed. *2018: Project Management Best Practices, 4th Ed. *2018. ''Defining Project Management Success with Application to Innovation Project Management Practices'' *2018. ''The Future of Project Management'' *2019. Using the Project Management Maturity Model, 3rd Ed. *2019. Innovation Project Management *2022. Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling and Controlling, 13th Ed.

Articles

* 1987. "In search of excellence in project management" in: ''Journal of Systems Management'', 1987 * 2003. "Strategic planning for a project office" in: ''Project Management Journal'', 2003 *2014. "''Surviving Disasters in Project Management:'' An Interview with Dr. Harold Kerzner"

References

External links

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