Delegation - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

impact on the organizations they lead. Hunting the High-Impact Leader From Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter By Gautam Mukunda In the middle of May 1860, delegates to the Republican National Convention met in Chicago to choose the... View Details

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

automatically must be delegated to the damage control specialists. Plans and actions should always focus on others' hearts as much or more than their minds. If you are at a middle or low level in an organization and see how a crisis can... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information technology investments, I find that a high net value of adaptation is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

as map out how changes will be made, and the CSO must often unify subcultures within the firm. But the CSO also delegates more sustainability responsibilities to various departments. So while at the Efficiency stage the CSO concentrates... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

11 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

delegate would have been better positioned to see the big picture. Friction was high in each of those domains. Confidential information about contract talks was sometimes leaked to the press. Key players who seemed ready to sign with one... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

seen as arising from a 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... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

supervision. While Thyssen delegated tasks and expected managers to achieve certain objectives, Taylor's management principles had managers and workers run through a checklist of motions or functions to be fulfilled in order to achieve a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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
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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

08 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

particular traits and skills allowing them to maintain relevance. These include adaptability, a proclivity for collaboration and communication, a willingness to delegate tasks when appropriate, and a disposition for curiosity and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

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

05 Dec 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

marketing function and the C-suite. Reasons for this are varied, but may include CEO and board priorities taken up by other issues or too much delegation of responsibility to the chief marketing officer. When a firm's marketing activities... View Details

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 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 Jun 2016
What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

This involved such things as reorganizing, delegating authority, increasing accountability, building trust among employees, and recognizing and rewarding desired behaviors. The authors conclude from this that “cultural change is what you... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

assets, as reflected by the level 3 fair value designation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-008.pdf Does Competition Favor Delegation? Author:Christian Alejandro Ruzzier Abstract This paper studies the consequences of product-market competition... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

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