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- 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
- 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
- 30 Jun 2010
- News
Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business
research by three HBS professors suggests otherwise. The research project began with the premise that as a state's congressional delegation grows in powerful committee assignments, businesses back home benefit from the increased flow of... 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
- 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
- Web
Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
political and economic factors affecting business, mainly between 1914 and 1932. Herman L. Dillingham Papers Herman L. Dillingham's Photograph Album No. 2, page 90, 1913 View Collection Herman Louis Dillingham was appointed secretary of a Boston Chamber of Commerce... View Details
- Web
Research Links: Photographs - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
of the Northern Pacific Railway. It was presented to Henry Villard by the German delegation attending the celebration commemorating the completion of the railroad in 1883. The album was a commemorative gift that celebrated the event and... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
because of its stellar location: Cape Town, South Africa. More than four hundred delegates came from dozens of countries, with close to half bringing partners or family members for whom a special program of events had been set up. The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
Bagley: Legal literacy should be a priority for managers. In her new book, Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk (HBS Press), Associate Professor Constance E. Bagley contends that managers who View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
conditions mentioned included only if: Top management is ready to know more about customer experiences and make the investment required to put the knowledge to work. Management is prepared to delegate the task to a broad swath of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sahlman Heads External Relations
specialist in the investment and financing decisions made in new ventures, Sahlman developed the second-year elective Entrepreneurial Finance and has taught the course to over 4,000 students since its introduction in 1985. In June, he led a faculty View Details
- 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
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
hands-on learning experience as a delegate at COP28. I have refined my career interests and realized the specifics of the story that I want to be part of when it comes to climate action. Looking aheads, the critical challenge lies in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
while reinforcing and encouraging the pursuits, passion, and life’s purpose of individual family members. What’s the role of a wealth strategist in the family? You have to take charge of your wealth. You can’t delegate your responsibility... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
for example, how Pakistan and India picked key business leaders to negotiate a reduction in dangerously escalating border hostilities between the two countries back in 2002. The Pakistani team had four HBS alums — including Shirazi — while the Indian View Details
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Brett Gibson
the Carlyle Group. While he appreciated the opportunity to apply values and skills he had developed in the Army – "integrity, motivating people, delegating responsibilities to a team" – he felt a need to go further. "I'm... View Details
- 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