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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
delegating authority whenever possible but personally investigating and inspecting all aspects of the construction effort. At the same time, however, he eschewed all military overtones, banning salutes and military uniforms, in order to... View Details
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Loeb House | About
provided leadership to a broad array of public and private institutions. In the public realm, he was appointed US ambassador to Denmark by President Ronald Reagan and served in that role from 1981 to 1983, in addition to representing the United States as a View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ikenna Okezie
Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and a Rhodes and Marshall scholar finalist. Having also taken premed courses, Okezie moved on to Harvard Medical School in 1994. He earned high honors and honors in all clinical rotations and in 1995 and 1996 led a View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
approach is for the government to delegate the management of investment promotion activities to the private sector. This approach often has the disadvantage that the private sector will not handle well the attributes of the task that are... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Harvard Business School
education institutions. Bulls co-founded and served as president and CEO of Bulls Capital Partners, a multi–family financing company under the Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting and Servicing (DUS) program. His partners included SunTrust... 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
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Southern Exposure
Last fall, Dean Kim B. Clark and Senior Associate Dean Steven C. Wheelwright spent five days in South America, visiting three cities in Brazil and Argentina. Clark, Wheelwright, and a small delegation from the School were welcomed by... 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
Leland I. Doan
Doan was responsible for Dow Chemical’s greatest diversification and expansion. Doan began by delegating increased authority to department heads and building a larger sales force trained to become market and production analysts. Upon... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Financing the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
Decades in investment banking and a lifelong love of the outdoors set Pat Coady (MBA 1966) on the path toward conservation financing. What was a small sector in the early 1990s, when he led the US delegation for the creation and... View Details
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Encrypting Emails | Information Technology
recipients from receiving or opening these messages. Recipients who leverage automatic email forwarding Recipients on non-M365 Mailing/Distribution lists Delegated Email Access is not supported. For more information: Please visit any of... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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