Functions - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, and for much of that time, Facebook's stunning growth—more than 1.2 billion users worldwide—has been the story. That said, the core Facebook functionalities have remained essentially unchanged... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

21 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

of continued collaboration. We theoretically refine and empirically extend prior research by (a) distinguishing between control and coordination functions of contracts, (b) separating goodwill-based and competence-based trust, and (c)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

push into other countries more quickly. "Building a functioning multinational firm is a huge challenge. There are many that underestimate it." A strong rise in both venture capital and private equity funds under management shows... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Women Negotiating in the New Millenium

men are more interested in group identity. "Women hold back on what they want to claim," she said, adding that, "this may be a more functional strategy for women. Strong personal relationships may be more important to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

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

to crucial functional systems is not just a one-time task, but an ongoing process. This approach fosters a culture of continuous improvement and preparedness, ensuring that the company is always ready to respond to potential disruptions.... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

01 Sep 2012
News

Curb Your Smartphone Habit

the team to rally around and second, scheduling a weekly team check-in. You start with a facilitated discussion around whether you can take your night off—and if not, why not. That might lead to conversations about how the organization could View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; smartphones; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information

26 Jan 2021
News

Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

diagnostics. Then we organized along functional lines, for development, manufacturing, and distribution. It was a complex matrix.” In terms of having the right people on board, Bingham said she recruited people from both the private... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 1996
News

"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

assigned a function in production, research and development, sales and marketing, or administration. In a day-and-a-half of real time - comprising twenty-minute action rounds, planning rounds, and instruction on specific topics such as... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Alumni Book Briefs

leadership and mentoring and on achieving organization alignment, both vertically and horizontally, across the entire structure of the organization. He also gives readers a method for tracking progress—plant by plant and function by... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

31 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

to be in your job title for it to be incorporated into your work. They stressed that achieving the pace of transformation needed to decarbonize our economy will require collaboration across all functions and all sectors. All businesses... View Details

18 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

(DSMs), which allows us to visualize the architectures of different software products and to calculate metrics to compare their levels of modularity. We use DSMs to analyze a number of matched-pair products-products that fulfill the same View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model the interaction between a sales... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-048.pdf Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America Author: Gunnar Trumbull Abstract Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing market failures to promote... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

availability of high quality information on corporate performance is critical to the effective functioning of the exchanges and maintaining their reputations for listing reliable securities. In this e-mail Q&A, Healy and Palepu expand... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

Moss: One of the things that a historical perspective helps make clear is that risk management has always been an essential function of government. From the very earliest days of the American Republic, government policymakers have... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

"As organizations have become flatter, those running them are looking for leaders who can see opportunities and address problems that cut across functional boundaries." Even managers in large organizations have to think and act... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

and on the probability distribution over the sets of feasible alternatives that the society will face. Our methods generalize the well-known Kemeny Rule. In the Kemeny Rule, it is known a priori that the subset of feasible alternatives will be a pair. We define a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

While the knowledge sharing benefits of clusters takes off, the liability of institutionalization rise steadily as a function of time. These costs consist primarily of foregone flexibility resulting from persistence of established... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

22 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

functions Allow me to develop strong professional relationships Be a launch pad for future career growth I found this ideal role with BCG Boston, and am excited to join them after graduation, and wanted to share some of the lessons I’ve... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

02 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy

are opportunities for large corporations to attract interest outside of the traditional MBA functions and into roles focused on energy and sustainability. Those roles can be hard to find for students, but they are very interested and... View Details