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- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
new product plans. Such decisions are either centralized near the top of the corporate ladder or decentralized and delegated to the top of a particular business unit. And the decision makers often depend on ERP software, which facilitates...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
This statute also tells directors that they may delegate the actual running of the company to its officers. Court decisions related to director conduct are largely focused on matters of process-that is, on how boards are to carry out...
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by Jay Lorsch
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
traces the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their first year on the job. Based on six years of intensive field research and data analysis by HBS professor Linda Hill, the book explores the transformation that takes place as star individual...
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- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
overlap in executive authority slows down the approval of new projects and reduces coordination across initiatives. Delegating more planning authority to local wards and communities could help accelerate climate action, especially because...
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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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
disguise their character, their traits are recognizable to others. Character is on display as leaders structure their organizations and go about making decisions. Some prefer to be intimately involved in the decision process. Others prefer to View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
Brand New also developed the ability to identify ability in others: organizational and strategic talent, as well as commercial imagination. Lauder, Schultz, and Dell—like the three entrepreneurs in the past—shared a willingness to View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
in 2011 to the first Antares team assigned to MeraDoctor. Serving as US ambassador for negotiations on a treaty governing international telecommunications, Kramer headed the US delegation to a world conference in Dubai in 2012. Says...
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- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
expectations and reinforce behaviors, effective change leaders also recognize that many employees simply do not know how to make decisions as a group or work cooperatively. By delegating critical decisions and responsibilities, a leader...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
with the senior managers and CEO—not the second-class citizen the IS person once was. The CEO is also quite comfortable with the technology, which is different from the past, when IT decisions tended to be delegated to others. EE: So CEOs...
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by Staff
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
past. And what I try to do is really focus on the things that need to change. I'm willing to delegate letting the trains run on time and the normal stuff that that's going well, I focus my time on the stuff that's not going well. And...
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- 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...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
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 delegate work to employees and not engage in over-monitoring as a...
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- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
professorial zeal to researching, understanding, and reflecting upon estate and end-of-life planning, writing papers and delivering speeches on these topics. “We can either make our own end-of-life decisions or avoid doing so by 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
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
attention to the human input into the system since so much moral decision-making is repeatedly delegated to individuals. The screening and hiring procedures need therefore be quite robust to ensure continuity. In addition, a lot of...
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- 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...
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by Martha Lagace