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The Weekly Take from CBRE

The Impossible Dream: Getting big projects done—and why many fail (Encore - 5/22/23)

Dec 26, 2023
35:18

As you make big plans for 2024, here's one of our most popular episodes from the past year featuring author and professor Bent Flyvbjerg talking about how he and his team studied more than 16,000 projects—from skyscrapers to Oscar-winning films—to learn the secrets of their success, and the common thread in their failures.


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Bent Flyvbjerg

Professor, Oxford University and IT University of Copenhagen

Bent Flyvbjerg is the first BT Professor at Oxford University and the VKR Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, an economic geographer, and “the world’s leading megaproject expert,” according to global accounting network KPMG. He has consulted on over one hundred projects costing $1 billion or more and has been knighted by the Queen of Denmark.

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