Functions - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

20 May 2025
Blog Post

How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value

“I was able to interact with all the various departments and sit down with all the department heads to learn more about how their teams function and how they collaborate,” she said. She also credited the strong support she received from... View Details

20 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care

designated time points to rotate off.” 3. Cross-functional Rotation: Similar to the Rotational Program, but limited to specific functional tracks. 4. Assistant to CEO: Participants work directly with division presidents/executives but,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

06 Apr 2017
Blog Post

3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow

career path, a few lessons stand out. 1. Fall in love with a problem Largely due to HBS’ social impact efforts, I’ve shifted the way I frame my career thinking. Rather than solely defining my career search by function or company, I think... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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What's the Right Fit for You–An In-Person or Virtual Program?

sales & marketing and general management. Currently I am part of the Group CEO Office of the Petroleum & Chemicals Solution Group. This division focuses on securing stable supplies of energy and chemical materials for the world. The Group CEO Office performs several... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Ready for Departure

require assistance at any point in the airport can use digital screens with video-calling functionality to connect with a virtual ambassador service to have their questions answered. The terminals—with more than one million square meters... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Chris Gash; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 1996
News

Meditations on the Bottom Line

to this unusual business challenge, however, it's Bothwick. "Most of my career since leaving HBS has focused on the 'people' aspect of business," she explains. Bothwick spent eighteen years at International Paper Company, where she worked in a broad range of View Details

21 May 2025
Blog Post

Mentorship in Action: When an HBS Student Proposes a Project

departments and sit down with all the department heads to learn more about how their teams function and how they collaborate,” she said. She also credited the strong support she received from her manager, who “was very hands-on throughout... View Details

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

is even harder to measure than price. But there’s a great amount of price variation that doesn’t seem to be correlated to quality (at least to quality that we can measure). Which brings us to the question of why: Why can an industry like this that is so important and... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

base—3,000 or 4,000 words at an intermediate level. You're not asking people to have native-like mastery in English, which hovers around 10,000 words. You're simply asking them to develop enough skill to function effectively. A language... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

for the global product line, the geographic area, the functional expertise of R&D or marketing," says Bartlett. "That's still necessary, but much more important is to build a matrix in the manager's mind so that he or she... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

21 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?

they were the fresh popcorn, strictly out of habit. Lately, Norton has been studying the brain chemistry of decision makers, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in order to determine the neural signatures of decisions based... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2009
What Do You Think?

Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

cultural norms." Then there were those who asked just what functions "masks" serve? David Broderick said, "The main reason masks exist is for leaders to hide their flaws from their followers." Srini commented that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Mar 2008
What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

"realization that functional management is an artifact of the 20th Century," that it will decline as organizations are reformed around "processes (that) cut across many functions...." The role of many managers in the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 | Baker Library

the near future, but greater numbers of them are being used as administrative assistants to top management men in all the functions of business management." (6) Most graduates worked as department heads or assistants to a senior executive... View Details

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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Archival Resources Industry, marketing and advertising have long been topics of interest at HBS, where marketing has been part of the curriculum since 1914 and advertising courses started offering an intensive study of the place and View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

Financial Engineering: Applied Studies of Financial Innovation (1995) and The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective (1995). Portions of this report were taken from an article by Ken Gewertz that appeared in the October 16... View Details

01 Jan 2007
News

A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968

Chairman & CEO, Invacare Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Harvard College, 1962 A.B., Physical Sciences LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "At HBS I learned about all the functional parts of a business... View Details

26 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 26

functional specialists, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration. Three decades ago, COOs outnumbered CFOs in Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies, but the proportions have flipped. Many CFOs are now charged with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work and industry trends necessitate that professionals from different functions work together on development projects to create the highest... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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