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  • March 2012 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

Against the Grain: Jim Teague in Tanzania (A)

By: Karthik Ramanna
Loan officer Jim Teague discovers his agro-processor client has a serious health-code violation just days before a disbursement is due. Proceeding with the loan could jeopardize the health of thousands of customers and put his employer at serious risk. But withholding... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Financing and Loans; Health; Risk Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Tanzania
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  • September 2013 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

The Morning Star Company: Self-Management at Work

By: Francesca Gino, Bradley R. Staats, Brian J. Hall and Tiffany Y. Chang

Morning Star, a collection of affiliated companies, had grown steadily since 1970 when Chris Rufer, president and founder, started the business hauling tomatoes to processing plants in a truck. The company's main products continued to be tomato-based, including a... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Motivation and Incentives; Working Conditions; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Food; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    Anywhere Sikochi

    Anywhere (Siko) Sikochi is a Berol Corporation Fellow and assistant professor in the Accounting and Management unit, where he teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum. He is a faculty affiliate to the Gender Initiative at HBS... View Details

    • 2011
    • Chapter

    Regional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies

    By: Pol Antras and C. Fritz Foley
    This paper analyzes the effects of the formation of a regional trade agreement on the level and nature of multinational firm activity. We examine aggregate data that captures the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement.... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Analytics and Data Science; Agreements and Arrangements; United States
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Regional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies

    By: Pol Antras and C. Fritz Foley
    This paper analyzes the effects of the formation of a regional trade agreement on the level and nature of multinational firm activity. We examine aggregate data that captures the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement.... View Details
    Keywords: Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Globalized Economies and Regions; Multinational Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Agreements and Arrangements; Southeast Asia; United States
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    • Research Summary

    Do Vertical Mergers facilitate Collusion?

    Joint work with Volker Nocke, University of Pennsylvania In this paper we investigate the impact of vertical mergers on upstream firms' ability to sustain collusion. We show in a number of models that the net effect of vertical integration is to facilitate... View Details

    • June 2005 (Revised May 2008)
    • Case

    Yamanote Kaikan

    By: Robin Greenwood, Arthur I Segel and Joshua Katzin
    In 2001, James O'Connell, president of Holyoke Japan, an affiliate of Larson Capital, a distress debt private equity firm, wants to bid on a 90 billion yen loan currently in default by the borrower, Sanjo Enterprises, for a popular wedding and banquet facility with an... View Details
    Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Price; Bids and Bidding; Competition; Japan
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      Leila Doumi

      Leila Doumi is a PhD Candidate in the Strategy Unit and an affiliate of the Digital Data and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard. She conducts research on technology adoption, corporate strategy, and the future of work with a focus... View Details

      • 13 Oct 2015
      • Blog Post

      LGBTSA Spotlight: Alterrell Mills

      the broader community. For me, being involved with the LGBTSA is an opportunity to demonstrate both inside and outside of the community that people do not need to choose one community affiliation (identity) over another, but can be their... View Details

        Alison Wood Brooks

        Alison Wood Brooks is the O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches a cutting-edge course in the MBA elective curriculum called "How... View Details

          Vincent Pons

          TO LEARN MORE ABOUT VINCENT PONS, CONSULT HIS WEBSITE.

          Vincent Pons is... View Details

          • March 2016
          • Article

          Trade Credit and Taxes

          By: Mihir Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
          This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced differences in pretax returns encourage the use of trade credit to reallocate capital from firms facing low tax rates to those facing high... View Details
          Keywords: Taxation; Trade; Credit; Capital
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          • 13 Jul 2022
          • News

          So What Happened to Crypto?

            Samuel G. Hanson

            Samuel G. Hanson is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 1... View Details

            Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry

              Marco E. Tabellini

              Marco Tabellini is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Centre for Research... View Details

                Reshmaan N. Hussam

                Reshmaan Hussam is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government and International Economy Unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty... View Details

                  Derrick Bransby

                  Derrick studies how people in organizations collaborate to create, innovate, and learn in high-stakes, time-constrained situations when failure is (seemingly) not an option. His research employs field methods to explore the... View Details
                  • 11 Oct 2010
                  • Research & Ideas

                  It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

                  Call it corporate alchemy. New research finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female managers in countries that traditionally discriminate against women. Employing women who are excluded by their own... View Details
                  Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
                  • 16 Nov 2020
                  • News

                  Harvard Business School Will Move to Remote Instruction and Restrict On-Campus Activities as Virus Cases Surge

                  • 2013
                  • Teaching Note

                  Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project (TN)

                  By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao
                  Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details
                  Keywords: China; Hospitals; China
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