Cross Functional Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jul 2010
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value-relevant before disclosure, for negative earnings adjustments it is value-relevant only after disclosure. This finding is consistent with managers delaying the communication of bad news until IFRS compliance. A finer model shows... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

others wanted to work for them and grow under them. Premised on the belief that providing high-quality feedback was a critical function of effective managers, he launched a Radical Candor initiative, based on tech veteran Kim Scott’s book... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Feb 2006
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Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

needs, to help them cultivate new skills, and to provide them opportunities for professional development and personal growth. Managers must do this even if it means nudging their rising stars into new View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves

12 May 2003
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How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

software when they enter a new network, for example. Another weak spot is that hot-spot carriers can't control the user's experience. A Capital Idea? Venture capitalist Geoffrey Moore, who wrote Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

01 Aug 2008
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Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

that stretch, by itself, is not a useful management concept. Nishant Miglani pointed out that "as a complement to stretch, GE also had this notion of the 'boundaryless organization' ..." Matthew Tuttle suggested that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Jan 2012
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Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

senior management at public firms still spends a lot of time in private powwows with hedge fund managers at corporate headquarters, road shows, or conferences—an average of 17 to 26 days per year for each... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

03 Jul 2018
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Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

moral leadership, it needs to carefully examine and discuss issues that cross the line from legal to immoral. Microsoft needs to show its employees that it takes the issue of separation ( of families by ICE) seriously. How it does that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

be useful for managing change after the Kyoto period is a challenge both for Kyoto ratifiers and for countries like the United States that have not ratified the agreement. Summarizes the science and economics of climate change, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2006
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Competition the Cure for Healthcare

business unit structures in management thinking, except that healthcare is still stuck in the functional model. These forms of competition and organization have also been institutionalized in medical... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

questionable behaviors during the financial crisis and individual acts of unethical behavior in many spheres of society. When considered together, these actions have had large-scale impact on the economic landscape. In this paper, we discuss recent streams of research... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic tactics and pioneering women who... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

12 Oct 1999
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Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

management systems used by direct marketers; software for creating and managing graphics, video, and sound; and convergence technologies such as broadband that provide simultaneous, high-speed transmission... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

22 Jun 2021
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The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

instruments intended for worst-case scenarios. If you’re an OldCo leader looking to proactively manage defection risk, you should: Stay close to your teams. Pre-pandemic, office culture functioned as a kind... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are often hard to measure. Hence, we differentiate "quality... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2012
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PublicationsChange Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change Authors:Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro Publication:Academy of Management Journal 55, no. 2 (April 2012) Abstract We develop a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2003
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What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?

undergraduate or graduate level of education for leadership, such efforts should strive to provide a context in which individuals can draw their own conclusions regarding such topics of vital importance for future leaders. Further, courses in View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Mar 2001
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Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

designed to focus on those challenges "horizontally"—across all the functions managers need to address from the original business plan through the first eighteen months of an organization's life.... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

04 Dec 2006
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The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

faculty, Toby Stuart studies networks and how they enable or impede certain organizational and entrepreneurial behaviors. In a working paper, "The Evolution of Venture Capital Investment Networks," he and coauthor Olav Sorenson of University of Toronto's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

entity, but the bank’s digital assets were managed exclusively by the bank. Third, if a separate app was not developed, then would the required breadth and depth of functionality for the credit card... View Details