Offices of Other Holding Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

Office of Education at USAID. Christensen's influential book was not about AIDS; it described companies that were well managed yet were blindsided by rapid advances from... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

Business School Case 207-092 How should creditors pursue their claims in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy? David Butters, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, negotiates a restructuring of Navigator Gas Transport, a shipping View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

customers to take their business elsewhere. With new Internet-only banks and brokerages popping up regularly, established firms must find innovative ways to hold onto their customers. "Traditionally, strategy was institutionally... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

fixed number package, on the other hand, CEOs receive the same number of options each year -- an arrangement Hall prefers. "A key problem with fixed value plans," he says, "is that a rise in... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

improved significantly in respect to speed, convenience, and cost. For example, I get Sunday delivery of Amazon through the post office as part of my Prime membership while... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

in press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others By: Rogers, T., R. Zeckhauser, F.... View Details

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

taxing our companies on foreign income, which has led to dozens of companies moving their corporate headquarters offshore and American companies... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market,... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

22 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

galleries. But there was a catch: I couldn't just put my money in a slot; I had to stand in line with everyone else, many of whom were paying the suggested donation of $15. Sometimes, I boldly told the clerk... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

27 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

F-16 HARM targeting system; chief of the Astronaut Office Robotics Branch; and, currently, the commander of the International Space Station (ISS), where he has lived since... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Aerospace

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

solving a problem with varying states of interaction with teammates: zero interaction with peers, intermittent interaction, or constant interaction. “Once upon a time, work in real workplaces was intermittent,” Bernstein says. You would... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

"Carolinas Healthcare employs 120 staff working on data analytics, a big strategic investment but a major potential point of differentiation in the quest to both cut costs and improve patient outcomes" Quelch says. View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

extremely competitive market conditions. That doesn't stop many retailers from trying. Indeed, grocers like Tesco, Sainsbury's, Kroger, Safeway, and Stop & Shop give back 1-2 percent of the total spent to their card-carrying shoppers.... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

03 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

accessible to your entire organization This will need to happen both in structured and unstructured ways as much as you can. Create open office hours or lunch-and-learns for team members other than your... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

20 May 2016
Op-Ed

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

Nutrition and Population Practice of the World Bank. Relevant WHO scientists and field health experts could be seconded to this Unit; they would work out of country offices in... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Health

05 Jun 2013
What Do You Think?

Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

In it, I compared data collected from the offices of a large marketing services firm to which I had been given unusual access. Here are some data from employee engagement studies, human resource reports, and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

once established, the very success of those low-cost competitors makes it difficult for others to duplicate. Our research is for the many companies that don't compete on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

advantage of the company or engage in some type of misconduct. That could to an extent temper how much of a risk taker you want if you care about... View Details