Delegation - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

shop in the current low-cost location. How to organize? What are the structures, systems, and processes that need to be in place to manage a company's international strategy? Should authority be delegated to many organizational units or... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

Recent research at Harvard Business School began with the premise that as a state's congressional delegation grew in stature and power in Washington, D.C., local businesses would benefit from the increased federal spending sure to come... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Nov 2017
Blog Post

Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program

LEAD this year (Taran Swan at Nickelodeon and Toby Johnson at PepsiCo stick out as particularly memorable). Toby Johnson is a strong female protagonist who is decisive, delegates well, and able to see the big picture - characteristics... View Details

20 Dec 2022
Blog Post

7 Resolutions for Recruiting in the New Year

professional development to be the best managers possible leads to better onboarding experiences and success on the job for all. Topics to focus on can include: Onboarding process Unconscious bias Delegation of tasks to new employees... View Details

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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

delegation of authority, approaches to resource allocation, and corporate initiatives. The module concludes with cases on corporate transformation, highlighting the challenge of realigning resources, organizational structure, and scope to... View Details

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work ahead is important. It cannot be work that we delegate only to a few; to succeed, it will require every one of us to play a role—heightening our awareness, deepening our understanding, adopting a learning mindset, and seeking... View Details

01 Jan 2005
News

Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

awarded the nation's third-highest civilian honor, the Padma Bhushan, in 2002. Five years ago, Bajaj began to delegate many of his responsibilities to a team of younger executives. The final stage of that plan took place last April, when... View Details

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

Streets. The effectiveness of SBA programs also explains why during my time at the SBA, we hosted more than 150 delegations a year from countries around the world who wanted to use the agency’s programs for small business assistance in... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

before they gained traction. Negative advertising by his opponents was countered quickly, not only in ads but on the Internet as well. Seventh, he fought the ground war as brilliantly as the air war. Building on Howard Dean's 50 state strategy, he built his primary... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

significant impact. We discuss implications for research, practice, and policy-making. Delegation in Multi‐Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority Author: Kristina Steffenson McElheran Publication:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

to compete as efficiently as possible for customers and build the enterprise's value," Deninger said. The new business model delegates non-core activities to various specialized partners, creating what Deninger refers to as an... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

They had to organize themselves. And they have apparently chosen their boss. Often, an organization's board chooses at least the top executive. It's a board's most important responsibility, a task delegated to it by the organization's... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

anywhere near as quickly as they do today. Accordingly, the range of issues managers had to think about was much narrower. But the emerging opportunities in today's market are so limitless that managers have to figure out what they're going to deal with and what... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

that fostered delegation and distributed authority. As a package, these ideas and others had a significant influence on management practice in the mid- to late-twentieth century. They still have a great deal of relevance for business, and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

parents, police, and policymakers. Are they safe for advertisers? A Q&A with Professor John Deighton. Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs When a delegation of Harvard Business School faculty visited Chinese entrepreneurs, they... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2019
News

Keeping Red Lobster Fresh

past. And what I try to do is really focus on the things that need to change. I'm willing to delegate letting the trains run on time and the normal stuff that that's going well, I focus my time on the stuff that's not going well. And... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

isn’t going to delegate a task if he or she doesn’t trust the subordinate to get the job done. “If those beliefs are that far off in other kinds of settings, then actually that means there are some gross inefficiencies where transactions... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

new product plans. Such decisions are either centralized near the top of the corporate ladder or decentralized and delegated to the top of a particular business unit. And the decision makers often depend on ERP software, which facilitates... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

were centrally determined, their actual implementation was delegated to local planning authorities. "This setup gave me the opportunity to look at the variations between areas with and without regulations, but also to look at points... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

01 Sep 2020
Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

autonomy among employees. Reduced autonomy on the job may lead to lower well-being. One of the challenges for leaders working in the virtual world is to learn to trust and delegate work to employees and not engage in over-monitoring as a... View Details