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- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
women has to meet much higher expectations than I did." But based on her own career, Graham did offer five personal qualities that are essential for enduring leadership: strong personal values; self-confidence; courage and tolerance in the face of failures; the ability... View Details
- 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
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
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
- 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
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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