Cross Functional Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

effects, and the dearth of rigorous empirical research, my research team and I set out to tackle the problem. My research team and I investigated time pressure and creativity as part of a multi-year research... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts

Research Summary

Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements

response team of perhaps five or six people who function as the leader's staff in the parallel crisis-management organization. 5. Preset activation protocols. Preset signals for activating and coordinating... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

21 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2023

Spotify as a Senior Product Manager leading a team that introduces younger audiences to our products through fun and interactive experiences. My friends and MBA classmates know how passionate I am about music and this role is nothing... View Details

March 2021
Case

P.F. Chang's

By: Ashish Nanda, Nitin Nohria and Margaret Cross

Excited yet apprehensive after being named CEO of P.F. Chang’s beginning July 1st, 2020, Damola Adamolekun was well aware of the extraordinary challenges facing the firm. The closure of businesses deemed “nonessential” owing to the COVID-19 pandemic had devastated the... View Details

Keywords: Restaurants; COVID-19 Pandemic; Scenario Planning; Scenarios; Health Pandemics; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy

Citation

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27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

platforms function safely and effectively. In the research literature, they are considered "high-reliability organizations." According to some scholars, the explanation of the difference lies in these organizations'... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2023
News

The Exchange: Help Wanted

Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

26 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor

leadership team for the Venture Capital and Private Equity Club and the Women in Investing Club. She will be returning to San Francisco after graduation to join Bessemer Venture Partners as a growth-stage investor. She hopes that sharing... View Details

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

functional definition of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide other choices.” Among other things, the paper shows that strategy formulation by the CEO leads to both better strategy and better execution, and that a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2021
Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

a leadership guide to navigating a role that Fubini says is unlike any other, which leaves many new CEOs and leaders struggling to find their footing. “People strive for a long time to develop functional skills and operational knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Web

Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship

executive summary and fundraising plan and based on mission/vision, management team, product/market fit, key milestones, etc. Caliber of position: Significance of entrepreneurial and managerial opportunity; function of role; and potential... View Details

30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

negative health outcomes, including heart disease—Wu says this is the first study to analyze the impact on the innovation generated by firms and their workers. The research team analyzed a sample of 3,445 inventors and 1,180 firms in... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Mar 2024
News

Game On

It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

Web

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

in the Impact Investing Trek. Organized by student clubs, treks provide HBS students an opportunity to visit companies around the world as they explore industries and functional areas of interest. Students who visit the Bridges offices in... View Details

Web

HBS - The year in Review

faculty members, companies, practitioners, and ideas outside of HBS; and a core that provides key data and administrative services. The Institute’s 14 research labs, which include 30 faculty across nine units, are dedicating themselves to pioneering research on how... View Details

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

before we fully embrace the new beginning. Think of it as that time between how you associate yourself with “we.” When you stop saying “at my last company, we ” but you have yet to associate yourself with the “we” of your new role and still refer to your new View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

Web

Research Resources - Doctoral

include, but are not limited to data sourcing and purchasing, locating data, finding articles, managing citations, creating charts and graphs for papers or presentations, utilizing Baker Library’s databases, diving deeply into Excel’s View Details

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

how one CEO we’ve talked with builds in multiple perspectives to his decision-making. At his industrial products company, he has established bi-weekly meetings with his senior team focused on two questions: What do we know now that we... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

08 Dec 2021
Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital

to move from Toronto, Canada to Maranello, Italy to join the Ferrari Product Development team and kick off his career in the automotive industry. However, this is not a story about Memme’s career designing engines for some of the top... View Details

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management positions, we explore the relationship between changes in executive team composition,... View Details