packaging - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

much comparable executives are paid and in what form. By adjusting an executive's pay package every year to keep it in line with the other executives' pay, companies hope to minimize what the consultants call "retention... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Hall

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

problem: how to dispose of billions in S&L loans that were not in default. The agency came to Wall Street with a proposal to sell loan packages rather than one property at a time, an impractical approach given the volume of loans on... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

must pay the cost of the marketplace, not the sellers. Sahlman: Scott, can you give us the short version of your career? Randall: After working at Procter & Gamble in brand management and in consumer packaged goods, I got into... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

suggest that workers with higher rank should receive compensation packages more heavily weighted in equity. However, we observe the puzzle that many firms adopt an equality-in-equity strategy: they offer different cash salaries across all... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Compensation Game

organizational affiliations, and social standing. Directors must be given strong incentives to focus on shareholder interests. Compensation arrangements for sports stars lack the features of executive pay arrangements in other ways as well. After an athlete's... View Details

Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

Singapore and Malaysia. Capital in Taiwan and Hong Kong went to the most efficient firms, including small, start-up entrepreneurial firms, and was not based on the political or ethnic status of such firms, he said. Extremely attractive compensation View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

Navigator 1.0 part of a whole package of Internet tools, it sidestepped the competition by offering its product as a stand-alone browser. By also distributing Navigator over the Web and using a new pricing model that essentially made it... View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice

25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

sales to Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol); Dristan and other cold and allergy-relief medicines; and drugs for asthma, hemorrhoids, and other ills. Canned and packaged goods brought in 11 percent, including such brands as Chef Boyardee... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

respect to black leaders’ economic influence over the past century. Most remarkably, the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, was placed at the helm of the US economy in the midst of the Great Recession and executed multi-billion-dollar stimulus View Details

14 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 14

participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may not) coexist in equilibrium. Firms decide their type and investment in R&D and sell packages composed of a primary good... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

at the market level, then translate these into strategies at the market segment level. A paper mill's marketing strategy, for instance, might call for selling newsprint to the publishing industry segment and paperboard to the packaging... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

severe as they seemed.” Bernstein advises startups that are facing a dwindling talent pool to raise cash—and act quickly. Finding capital when it's least needed can provide a firm with more stability, as well as the ability to offer competitive salary View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

Easterbrook. As he put it, “The board would not reward Easterbrook with a full severance package due to the evidence and very real tangible and PR harm and likely civil suits to endure Of course, the relationship could not continue.”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Sep 2010
What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

severance package of the CEO." To the extent possible, these actions would presumably be carried out quietly. While maintaining that the CEO should go, others recommended a more quiet approach, neither imposing a firing for cause nor... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

authorities in the U.S. and the EU in formulating environmental regulations in three areas: automotive emissions for health-related (criteria) pollutants, packaging waste, and global climate change. Automotive emissions are relatively... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

presenter from Group B. "We came up with the idea of Benro but didn't have time to pursue it. They might be willing to talk about reciprocal distribution." Benro was a small software shop in Norway. Greg knew if had made about $5 million in sales last year... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

perspectives of marketing strategies, store operations, and relationships between customers and store clerks. However, the significance of the development of cellophane as a new packaging material, and the role of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

chambers of Congress are considering additional relief, with small business loans packages of over $300 billion under consideration. Mills hopes that the government will go a step further and offer interest-free loans and work to include... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

17 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

nearly all corporations ceased offering defined benefit plans in favor of "defined contribution" packages such as 401(k) plans—in which employees contribute a set amount from their paychecks that would be individually invested... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

When cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike distributed a faulty software update in July, it impacted a staggering 8.5 million devices. The crisis rippled through commercial airline operations, package delivery logistics, ecommerce, and health... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

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