Functions - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Mar 2022
HBS Seminar

John Paul MacDuffie, Wharton

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

function becomes something that more and more resembles the way that two friends would talk," Slind says. The Properties Of A Good Organizational Conversation The book divides good organizational conversation into four alliterative... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Bloomberg: Excel Add-In

Table where you will add your securities, whatever data fields you wish to import, and a date range. You can also use the Function Builder to pull in data. The most commonly used function is BDH which... View Details

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

really goes away. Since the dawn of advertising, retailers have made a point of marketing separate lines of branded products for men and women in many categories, even in cases where their functions are essentially the same. It's a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

2008
Working Paper

Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis

By: Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin

A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details

Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Information Technology Industry

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2020
Discussion Paper

Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch

This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety

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02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

pre-defined interfaces through which they could access commonly used functions and features. Why reinvent the wheel if someone else had already worked out what it should look like? In essence, Microsoft began codifying knowledge and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

pay, Healy says. For job functions with fewer women, such as R&D, general management, and operations, compensation increases for women switching firms averaged 37.3 percent, versus 23.1 percent for men. Women with partners and... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

18 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

“If a brand wants to create a conversation with you, the message of the brand has to be broader than just the function of the product itself,” Gupta says. “In social media, functional messages don’t work.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

18 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

complimentary sessions each calendar year. That is an amazing lifetime benefit! How has your MBA experience influenced your career path? My HBS MBA education gave me the opportunity to: Explore many career paths: The case method made it possible for me to learn about a... View Details

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

performance indicators that shifts strategic decision making to customer-facing edges of the organization. Others advocate less sweeping but still significant changes: Housing the budgeting and strategic planning functions in one office,... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

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Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description - Recruiting

function or product-based keywords to describe the job's area of work. Think about the format and length Job descriptions in paragraph form can be hard to process. Make the beginning easy to scan so candidates quickly know if the job is a... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

required three kinds of specialists: business managers, country managers, and functional managers, with a group of senior executives to coordinate the efforts of the specialists. In 2003, as globalization has become a much more pressing... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

abortion bans. It suggests that anti-abortion attitudes share the same functional origin with the custom of restricting women in their freedom of mobility and with particularly invasive forms of female genital cutting. Limits on women’s... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

modern economy, and how governance systems differ internationally. He discussed the key functions of boards and reviewed the challenges boards currently face. Professor Kaplan addressed techniques and tools boards can use to improve... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

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

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

inventory management), production, and logistics. Many of these [academic] papers pursue an optimizing approach given the assumption of a completely rational decision maker. In a supply chain, however, these activities are usually spread over multiple View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

and think in strategic terms are critical. They need good interpersonal skills since they must interact effectively and authoritatively with senior business units and functional heads. Project management experience is desirable to oversee... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Research Summary

Automotive Product Development

At present, my primary research focus is studying product development in the auto industry. I am working with Stefan Thomke (HBS) and Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo) on the 4th Round of the Global Automotive Development Study. The first round of this... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Zone Defense

reconnaissance of potentially hazardous spaces. The quadcopter functions in total darkness, in buildings it has never previously entered, and flies without prior knowledge or programming of the space—even in areas without GPS or... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

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