Cross Functional Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2004
News

Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

choices between safety and affordability, all of us involved in policy cannot rest,” he told an audience of some two hundred participants gathered in Spangler Auditorium. Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly took an opposing view, characterizing the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

investor, cases in the course frame many of the critical opportunities and challenges associated with activating exponential growth and managing through the extrapolation phase as a venture scales. Scaling situations are presented through... View Details

01 Jul 2018
News

Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

Das Narayandas and Nitin Nohria (photo by Susan Young) Das Narayandas and Nitin Nohria (photo by Susan Young) Through the Harvard Business School Campaign we positioned the School to deepen its impact on management education, business,... View Details

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

business together and so are willing to invest resources in building a highly functional link, especially one that allows their information systems to interact on routine tasks without human intervention. This intervention is costly and... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

disaster, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Some research reports estimate that the cost of the CrowdStrike event could exceed $1 billion. Preparation for a crisis is just as crucial as the response. We... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

01 Mar 2010
News

Lords of Strategy

John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

Profile

Margo Cramer

intellectually fulfilling, "it wasn't a degree that took me in any specific direction." Immediately after graduation, Margo worked as a merchandising team and sales account manager at Commando, a women's luxury apparel brand.... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; Retail/Hospitality

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for several proxies for earnings and stock return performance suggesting that boards appear to penalize managers for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

travel abroad freely, and it still doesn't allow many ideas to cross its borders. Consequently, while it may be true that multinational companies can invest in China more easily than they can in India, View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

Pixar's approach. Without the interplay and collaborative contributions of large numbers of people, it could not make a CG movie. One of Pixar's unusual features as a studio was that all three functions of the organization—art,... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation

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About IT: IT Planning and Service Delivery Team Profile | Information Technology

how to manage personal protective equipment (PPE). This need led to HBS Operations exploring using ServiceNow to manage its work orders and has grown into an infrastructure that literally runs the entire HBS... View Details

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Journal of Banking and Finance 19, nos. 3-4 (June 1995): 461-481. Merton, Robert C. "The Financial System and Economic Performance." Journal of Financial Services Research 4 (December 1990). Merton, Robert C. "A Functional Perspective of... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Merton Named University Professor

Harvard's most distinguished professorial posts. "Bob Merton has done seminal work in enlarging our theoretical and practical understanding of financial markets and how to manage risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in... View Details

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

whole set of interdependent players—the CEO, the senior leadership team, and managers down the line. This won't happen without a collective, public conversation. By "collective" we mean that several levels of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

Career Coach

Marc Herson

Marc (INSEAD '01) has extensive global experience as a venture capitalist, media executive, entrepreneur and lawyer, working in the U.S., Europe, and Africa. His most recent experience is at 2go Interactive, a start-up mobile tech company based in Cape Town, South... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Telecommunications

Shirish Nimgaonkar

Shirish is the co-founder of an AI enabled predictive automation software company. and a Natural Language Processing company focused on enhancing customer experience through AI. In the past, he has been a part of the senior management... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

Charles J. Christenson Chuck Christenson, the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration and a specialist in management control, has been a member of the HBS faculty for 39 years. Throughout his career, he has been an innovative... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

CEO-doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in functional managers rather than general managers, a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Using panel... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Daniel Serna

Reservations demonstrated community-supported agriculture by managing a dairy herd and producing grass-fed beef. "I took an A.P. class in economics," Dan says, "to learn more about the business environment." When he... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

problems we’re now facing, including unfunded pension obligations. It has done nothing to stop corporations from making promises to their employees and shareholders without the resources to back them up. Extensive reform is necessary. To be effective, auditors should... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

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