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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
ecosystem. It charges users only a moderate fee to coordinate their trading activities. Incentives such as the PowerSeller label reinforce standards for sellers that benefit the entire ecosystem. These performance standards also delegate... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
ultimate control but delegated much of the management of RBS to his star nonfamily EVP, Pedro Parente. Nelson shared leadership of the ownership group with his uncle and then chairman, Jayme Sirotsky (also an exemplary leader). Nelson... View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
and less about hands-on doing. So really the challenge is about delegation and achieving leverage; and on some level it's about finding, hiring, developing, and retaining top people. With those individuals, you then have to build an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
that companies shouldn't rely on consultants to develop their strategy. Why is that? A: It's a good idea for companies to seek out support in developing strategy, but not to delegate responsibility to an outside consultant. My thesis is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
act, and this I believe is not deception." Karen Dempster comments that "I completely believe leaders all use a form of theatre, even quietly, to express and create hopefully a calm, delegated form of control ." Just how... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
in case of a contagion, and also increased the reliance on individual team members for psychological concerns regarding safety, pre-existing conditions, and family needs related to children. Management decided to delegate decisions on... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
power in a small socio-economic class. Such an environment was less tolerant of the elitism and paternalism found in large, family-dominated companies in Britain. A corporate meritocracy emerged that fostered the development of a new class of professional managers, to... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
many practices realized that it made sense for clinicians—mostly physicians, but also nurse practitioners and physician assistants—to delegate some EHR-related tasks to clinical support staff, including registered nurses, licensed... View Details
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
professor Constance Bagley discusses the most frequent legal flops made by entrepreneurs, everything from hiring the wrong lawyer to puffing up the business plan. Key concepts include: Entrepreneurs tend to delegate too much to the... View Details
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
thinking about CSR and the privately optimal level of such activities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-091.pdf Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing Authors: Kristina McElheran... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
people.” “At some point soon, genuine ethical decisions will be delegated to these systems—to some extent, they are already,” says Joseph Badaracco, the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School. “And by genuine... View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective, corporate accountability reporting can internalize certain externalities into firms' resource-allocation decisions, although doing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
limited quantity. The competition has no comparable model. Which price should the company choose? Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54489 Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation By: Alfaro, Laura,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0461 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing By: McElheran, Kristina Steffenson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
whether the CEOs in their sample simply couldn't afford to delegate key duties to professionals who would be willing to work longer hours—and thus generate better results—than the CEOs themselves. Delegation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
political affiliations, so it can provoke both negative and positive responses. Nevertheless, in the age of Twitter, silence on an issue can be conspicuous—and consequential. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53647 Come Together: Firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
ties between section-mates lead to insights about the merits of business plans. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16918 Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
risks—a process that can release more equity capacity. Finally, Merton argues, the job of managing the company's derivatives portfolio should not be delegated to in-house financial experts. The strategic importance of how a company... View Details
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
things they would like to learn from, most notably in recent years in software, they are quick to send delegation after delegation to Nasscom's doors to figure it out. India doesn't reciprocate with quite... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
players). Second, the technology has to operate dependably, a problem in combat. And third and most significant, superiors have to be willing to delegate such decisions to frontliners. As a result, there have been as many spectacular... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett