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- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
and who could do the job. And then keeping them. And delegation became my new mantra." Lisa Bowen, who eventually became the president of Tweezerman, remembers her boss from the early days: "At first he was a micromanager. Tried... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
populous that drove a Toyota Prius in 2008, and the pro-environmental voting record of each city's delegates to the California legislature. They then matched cities that had adopted green-building policies to cities that had not. "We... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
delegating authority to heavyweight product development teams. But senior functional leaders, used to making key decisions, are likely to resist. The most effective way for a leader to realign his company is to facilitate open and honest... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
tendency for leaders to engage in monitoring, leading to a reduction in felt autonomy among employees. Reduced autonomy on the job may lead to lower well-being. One of the challenges for leaders working in the virtual world is to learn to trust and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
so many managers are overwhelmed and burned out these days. In our dynamic, competitive environment, speed matters. If managers do not develop their people so they can delegate to them, or if they do not turn their groups into agile teams... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
anything, it naturally follows that senior managers can't simply delegate critical decisions involving operations, the adoption of IT or other technologies, and improvement efforts to "experts," whether they're internal or... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
important determinant of delegation and the provision of incentives. Using a sample of convenience store chains, we show that market-type dispersion is related to the degree of franchising at the chain level as well as the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
organization during “bad times”? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from U.S. administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
Democrat Chris Dodd, chairman of the Banking Committee, also has voiced reservations. Others have raised concerns about investing too much power in the hands of the Fed. Pozen advised the Senate committee to tap the Federal Reserve as the super regulator but to View Details
- 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
- 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
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
health care cannot be delegated to the finance function. The most successful implementations have had strong executive support, exceptional clinical leaders, and dedicated, multi-disciplinary project teams. The paper describes the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
that fostered delegation and distributed authority. As a package, these ideas and others had a significant influence on management practice in the mid- to late-twentieth century. They still have a great deal of relevance for business, and... View Details