Cross Functional Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

is superior, but because the end-to-end product is better. Focusing on serving your customers’ end users should be baked into the team’s DNA. In most cases, you are building more than the ML product, so collaboration and coordination is required across View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Current 21% Executive Education Tuition 14% MBA Tuition & Fees 6% HBS Online 3% Housing, Rents, & Other MBA Tuition and Fees Tuition and fee revenue from the MBA program increased by 11 percent to $152 million in fiscal 2023 from $137 million in the prior year. This... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

and the availability of limited liability to raise finance for the new business opportunities which appeared at this time. They functioned in part as venture capitalists identifying opportunities and placing potential British investors in... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

short-term debt. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/Comparative_Advantage_paper_20140623.pdf August 2013 Management Science Marketplace or Reseller? By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—Intermediaries can choose... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

limited to working at law firms, management consulting firms, investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, venture capital firms, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, the U.S. court system, start-ups and non-profit... View Details

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to launch an innovation initiative... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

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Demonstration Policy | About

speak to the USRR’s application. Principles The USRR begins by noting, The central functions of an academic community are learning, teaching, research, and scholarship. By accepting membership in the University, an individual joins a... View Details

Profile

Melcolm Ruffin

through his high school education, he came across an article in ESPN Magazine about sports management that listed specialty undergraduate programs. Melcolm conducted his "own research and due diligence," selecting the University... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

those crossing the border to request asylum without “waiting in line” for fully documented or legal entry. (As economist Tara Watson and writer Kalee Thompson point out in their recent book, it is more accurate to say that under current... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Aug 2020
Blog Post

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

Janelle Teng is from the Class of 2020 and a proud member of Section C. From completing her undergraduate studies at Stanford University to working as a product manager at SalesforceIQ, Janelle has spent most of her academic and... View Details

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Ellen Mahoney | About

Ellen Mahoney Bio Ellen Mahoney is the Chief Human Resources Officer of Harvard Business School. She is responsible for managing all aspects of the School’s human resources function for the over 1,600... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY

Creativity’s reputation as a mysterious, unknowable trait (something of a myth in itself) has led to some erroneous ideas about what it is and how it functions in organizations. Here, Professor Teresa Amabile quashes some of these... View Details

Keywords: Management; Management; Management

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Harvard Business School

American Advisory Board, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Jeff Humber MBA 1973 Jeff Humber is regional manager of public finance for Maryland, Washington, and Virginia for PNC Financial Services... View Details

18 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Family Business Club

finance, or for an operating company that is similar to their family’s business before returning to home base. The general management curriculum at HBS exposes students to a variety of functional roles and... View Details

01 Dec 2015
First Look

December 1, 2015

will have an important future impact on our understanding of consumer psychology. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50106 forthcoming Management Science Experimental Evidence of Pooling Outcomes Under... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

here will make the MBA experience very different from many of the students, but as long as your priorities are clear you can make it work and you will likely find more people around to help than you imagine. HBS mama memory? I started having contractions in a The... View Details

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

How can managers better identify, describe, and confront the issues of environmental and social sustainability that their companies increasingly encounter? One answer is One Report, a method of integrating information about financial and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

I cherish and enjoy! My job involves bringing in new customers, retaining and growing business with current customers, leading new projects, developing new products, spearheading new technology drives, meeting investors and stakeholders, building a strong View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Marquis Jet Takes Off

partners took to NetJets was a new concept — membership cards giving customers 25 hours of flight time for $109,000 and up. Functioning primarily as a sales and marketing organization, Marquis Jet needed to ink a partnership with NetJets... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Air Transportation; Transportation

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

gender diversity in management enhance performance? What do you think? Original Column Gender equality in leadership is a topic appearing with increasing frequency among the research reports, books, and opinion pieces View Details