Offices of Other Holding Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

the two investment banks that just announced they will become bank holding companies did not do so by choice, Rose said. "This is a requirement that the Fed imposed on them and that the Treasury imposed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

29 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

question around which many IT vendors design and sell their products. Instead, functionality continues to be king. New releases of everything from ERP to office automation software tout the new functionality... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

14 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

extent to which companies use performance-based pay. We argue that while agency theory provides a useful framework to analyze strategic compensation, it fails to consider a host of psychological factors that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

much larger piece of the company that he appears to be leading toward ruin. It's true that the value of John's existing holding View Details

Keywords: by Brian Hall

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

setting good defaults is an example of this. But there are a lot of others as well, such as simplifying the choice environment and eliminating unnecessary complexity. "As... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

workers with access to free vaccination clinics take advantage of them. (Overall, about 20 percent of vaccines are administered at work.) To boost the number of employees... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

08 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

director and chief investment officer at Peony Capital, which operates in China. "They're in a new era of the green race, and it's all about the companies understanding... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

as the way to have the most meaningful impact, and what implications their ultimate decision will have on the Family Office in terms of its capital outlays, structure, staffing, and many View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

relevant government ministers at the table in a culturally sensitive process. Instead, the company took innovative actions away from the table that significantly improved its negotiating position. "Kennecott involved a variety View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

commodity, which is far from true, and have focused on lowering costs and improving their competitive position with the gains of one participant coming at the direct expense of View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

23 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

today. Looking at grand cru-classified wines of the vintages from 1991 to 2008, Malter found that the wines from the first class earned three times as much as wines from the second class, holding constant... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

highly local. This means that industrial commons can have a local character as well. As a result, companies located in some places have advantages over others by virtue of... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

10 Nov 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

zones As companies expand operations across the globe, they must grapple with time gaps during which employees cannot collaborate (i.e., lost productivity). To study this phenomenon, a research team studied communication patterns among... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

business. Historically, advertising agencies in the United States and Europe did not simultaneously serve accounts or clients that were competitors—a practice that also limited an agency's growth. The holding View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

a virtual world than a video game: Millions of users have gathered on the platform for online concerts headlined by Ariana Grande, Travis Scott, and other stars. Tim Sweeney, the CEO View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

of Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna, the Henry B. Arthur Fellow of business ethics at Harvard Business School. In a nutshell, the case goes like this: "Jim" accepts a summer internship as a loan... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

and other types of data are still locked away from Internet users. It's really going to be about great execution.— Mark Kroese, MSN "Rather than leave someone behind, the approach we at Google take is,... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

taming global warming and other environmental threats. These intense juxtapositions must leave many wondering what we should be doing in the face of these perils. Just what are the next steps? I have an idea... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

investors shapes information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which is then leaked to their best clients. We show that after large informed trades, a significantly... View Details