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Why big projects go wrong

Business Daily

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The Overrun of the Olympic Games

Olympics are a special case in the sense that they have a fixed deadline. That means all you can do when things start to go wrong, is throw more money after it. So why do Olympic games overrun by so much? The Empire State Building was built in just under one and a half years. But Montreal failed so badly.

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