Cross Functional Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

16 May 2018
Blog Post

Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together

year. Fortunately, their ambitions crossed paths in the best way possible. Their experience sheds light on how MBA candidates and enterprise recruiters can find each other for mutual advantage. Czapski began his search by defining a... View Details

Keywords: Technology

18 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Use Baker Library to Build a Target List

you by creating a list of fund managers using Preqin. Email Baker Library or use the Ask Us page to connect via chat or Zoom. You can also build your own list using D&B Hoovers, available via Baker Library Databases. By using the... View Details

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Curriculum | MBA

with new content. The goal is to give students a firm grasp of broad-based fundamentals. The School’s inductive learning model goes beyond facts and theories—a process that teaches individuals not only how to manage organizations, but... 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

01 Mar 2010
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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

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

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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

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Sheila Marcelo

stood by the window and waved goodbye until he couldn’t see me anymore,” says Marcelo, who learned math alongside her older brothers. “They did not have certain expectations just because I was a girl,” she recalls. As a student at Mount Holyoke College, Marcelo... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Services

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

Summing Up Those offering insights into ways to make the corporate brain function more effectively suggest that the corporate brain may be as complex as its biological counterpart. Respondents alternatively focused on learning, constant... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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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

01 Oct 1998
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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

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

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Oral Histories | Baker Library

a world that they would not necessarily have been exposed to either then, or now. And gave them the foundations, and the basic functions of an organization that would allow them to move into the corporate world, or the not-for-profit... View Details

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana

nimble, and it’s a challenge they welcome. Likewise, making adjustments to recruiting, onboarding, and management to bring the best talent to the organization is seen as mission critical across all departments and View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health-Related Services

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

01 Jun 2015
News

Learning from Global Immersion Experiences

careers will cross international borders.” India Research Center: Connecting HBS to South Asia Ajay Piramal (AMP 110, 1992), Rahul Bajaj (MBA 1964), and Dr. Swati Piramal (MPH 1992) visit the India Research Center offices. “The India... View Details

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Irina Gerry

well as from advice and support of a dedicated career coach. What are you most looking forward to in your career? I am excited to embark on my new career shortly after graduation. I am looking forward to working in an industry and View Details

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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details

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

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