Harold Kerzner

Harold Kerzner (born ca 1940) is an American engineer, management consultant, Emeritus Professor of Systems Management at Baldwin Wallace University, and Sr. Executive Director for Project Management at the International Institute for Learning,

Education Kerzner received an MS and PhD at the University of Illinois and an MBA at Utah State University.

Career Kerzner started as an engineer at the Thiokol Corporation, where he worked in program management and project engineering.

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 Utah State University, and the University of Illinois granted him the Distinguished Recent Alumni Award. The Project Management Institute, the Northeast Ohio Chapter, annually grants the Kerzner Award for excellent achievements in project management to a company or individual.

Kerzner is the Executive Director for International Institute for Learning (IIL). 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"