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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

An independent steering committee’s first “gate” review of the project, at the end of the conceptual-design stage, had been scheduled for Week 15; she postpones it to Week 33. The only bad news is that the steering committee turned down my request of €2 million in additional funds for the 2013 budget. What went wrong?