Cross Functional Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

Career Coach

Philippe Taieb

Media, Sports & Entertainment, and CPG) on the entire career transition continuum, from self-assesment to salary negotiation. He has also coached participants of Executive Education programs and he has mentored over a dozen teams of... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Manufacturing; Social Enterprise; Sports; Clean Technology; Energy

Career Coach

Connie Walsh

team for $5B Staples Brands Group at Staples, Inc. She was responsible for marketing & developing product lines and brands across retail, contract, online and catalogue businesses and for the packaging strategy and production of over... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail; Social Enterprise; Technology

Profile

Fola Folowosele

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? At Mesoamerica Energy, the wind energy company I worked at prior to business school, I held a cross functional role that straddled engineering and business... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products

Career Coach

Matt Spielman

Matt (Columbia ’94, HBS ’99) is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inflection Point Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to igniting careers and energizing lives. Matt and his team at Inflection... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Sports; Technology; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All)

Career Coach

Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer

Annette Rodriguez brings over 20 years of seasoned expertise in private equity, across business services, consumer services, and healthcare. She has dedicated her career to building teams and investing in and developing best-in-class... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Retail; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship

01 Jun 2022
News

June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

research from Future Forum, a consortium by Slack, and global case studies from leading companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Genentech, Royal Bank of Canada, and IBM, How the Future Works offers concrete solutions and practical steps for building high View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Career Coach

Ildi Nielsen

and consumer products companies. Ildi also spent 12 years as an Executive Search Consultant in New York and Chicago for financial services firms. She worked with senior executives to build their teams and with a multitude of... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Consumer Finance; Financial Services (All); Corporate Finance; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Retail

25 Feb 2025
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation

in 2020-2022 seek their next round of funding. This environment creates headwinds for novel climate technologies as they fundraise for their first commercial-scale projects. While there isn’t a silver bullet to scaling these technologies, a few archetypes are emerging... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference

Professor Jeff Polzer focused on team management issues. “Besides being informational from an academic point of view, the case discussions and faculty involvement were great ways to facilitate interaction with our peers,” says Bruce... View Details

Keywords: clubs; Centennial; outreach; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Career Coach

Michele Chambliss

reviews and career narratives), she takes a personal interest in each candidate finding their own path to growth and professional fulfillment. Michele has significant experience of her own in hiring and growing high performing teams in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

Profile

Tariro Goronga

dimension.” His engineering background proved to be the bridge. At British Petroleum, Tariro was assigned to a finance team to bring the engineering perspective they needed. As his colleagues considered potential investments, he evaluated... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

02 Feb 2016
Blog Post

A Summer Internship in General Management

packaged goods organizations, the marketer is the general manager and is supported by a team of functional specialists, such as advertising, consumer research, R&D, finance, operations. I was surprised... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care Course Number 6340 Nancy R. McPherson Professor Regina Herzlinger Visiting Lecturer Ben Creo Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Paper/Project Enrollment: limited to eighteen students/12... View Details

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Peeling Back the Global Brand

elements from the real, tangible, and functional to the virtual, intangible, emotional, and unspecific. Henkel decided to tweak the conventional wisdom that a brand "is some sort of holistic entity" that had to consistently... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

20 Mar 2025
Blog Post

Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)

in 2020-2022 seek their next round of funding. This environment creates headwinds for novel climate technologies as they fundraise for their first commercial-scale projects. While there isn’t a silver bullet to scaling these technologies, a few archetypes are emerging... View Details

25 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-061.pdf Cross Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales & Operations Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Author's Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Career Coach

Phil Wong

cross-sector and cross-asset class team focused on data-driven decision making, and launching an internal portfolio analytics platform. Phil’s journey to becoming a HBS career coach included work with Professor Perlow’s Crafting Your Life... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship

25 Jun 2018
Blog Post

The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”

effectiveness – I will essentially be a general athlete supporting the management team and a number of other functional areas.” Aaron’s internship began on June 11 in Los Angeles. He’s confident it will be a... View Details