Cross Functional Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care

designated time points to rotate off.” 3. Cross-functional Rotation: Similar to the Rotational Program, but limited to specific functional tracks. 4. Assistant to CEO: Participants work directly with division presidents/executives but,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

06 Apr 2017
Blog Post

3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow

career path, a few lessons stand out. 1. Fall in love with a problem Largely due to HBS’ social impact efforts, I’ve shifted the way I frame my career thinking. Rather than solely defining my career search by function or company, I think... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

23 Sep 2021
News

Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies

professor in Executive Education at the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. “The OPN is a way to provide support to Black-owned businesses that are ready for growth but lack a few tools,” she says. “Our function is to help with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

wherein managers work in cross-border teams to resolve a variety of complex, international, management problems. The challenges they encounter are much like those of the "virtual" teams at the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

30 Sep 2024
News

The Making of a Streaming Sensation

keep Holly very involved creatively and in fact build the creative team around her. And sometimes, sadly, what often happens with Hollywood adaptations is the first person to get fired from the project is the author. And as a fellow... View Details

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

Groups in Decentralized Organizations (revised) Authors:Heather M. Caruso, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-090.pdf Team Familiarity,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

With many of today's entrepreneurs starting ventures simultaneously in several countries, it is critical for the global businessperson to understand the financial and business environments in different countries and to accurately assess investment opportunities that... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

representatives from all the functions and areas on which the business unit depended. The view across the organization revealed business opportunities that would have been hard for any one unit to see by itself. For example, Gillette's... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

06 May 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”

boundaries and fuses various functions of a firm together (as well as a firm with its customers, suppliers, and partners) may suggest that marketing as we knew it has become so identified with the development and implementation of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach

deliver persuasive pitches. Many don’t know how the deals and relationships really work. Kupor outlines what he and his partners look for in founding teams and business ideas and explains how start-ups work with VCs to become successful... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Ticktock

partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive expense, or to team up with a less-expensive overseas firm and risk the inherent quality control and communications issues? (Nanda, who was able to launch the product with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

21 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

with high-level C-suite executives and several functions together, both from inside and outside the firm. We use these data to study the correlation between CEO behavior and firm performance within the framework of a firm-CEO assignment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

not commercialize the innovations. It was Steve Jobs and his Apple team that saw the possibilities during visits in 1979 and made them the cornerstone of the Macintosh. In other words, while Xerox may have invented many wonderful things,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

22 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

while aiming for consistency and managing complexity. The case concludes with a description of new challenges as the district faces political unrest, shrinking enrollments, and decreased funding. Hiroshima and her team wrestle with... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

"get unstuck" can put your career and personal life—as well as the healthy functioning of your team or organization—at risk. In Getting Unstuck, business psychologist and researcher Timothy Butler... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

asking her, "Tell me why you're here at HBS taking a place away from a man." HBS professors' attitudes toward women were a mixed bag, too. As early as the 1940s and into the 1960s, several HBS faculty members would cross the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

Blog

HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira

responsibilities as well. (LV): The two products need autonomy. ExecEd doesn't have the experience that the HBS Online team has in producing purely online asynchronous programs, and that's an expertise we need to preserve—they've... View Details

26 Jan 2021
News

Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

diagnostics. Then we organized along functional lines, for development, manufacturing, and distribution. It was a complex matrix.” In terms of having the right people on board, Bingham said she recruited people from both the private... View Details