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31 Jan 2022
News

Michael Trejo Brings Business Back to the Valley of the Sun

bring back to my community,” he explained to the magazine. “It was time to come home.” Trejo is now president and CEO of Standard Printing Company, a commercial trade printer located in an industrial Hispanic neighborhood of Phoenix. The... View Details

Keywords: Printing and Related Support Activities; Manufacturing

07 Apr 2003
What Do You Think?

Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?

expected reductions in productivity gains, or simply a decline in trust among some North Atlantic trading partners, the discussion seems to be occurring with increasing frequency. Boiled down to its simplest level, the underlying question... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2000
News

Three Promoted to Full Professor

(1987) from HBS, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a Ph.D. (1990) in business economics, also from Harvard. Debora L. Spar Debora Spar is an authority on business-government relations and the political environment of commerce. Her current research focuses on issues of... View Details

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Commodities Research: data and reports

Prices and Futures Contracts.
Production, Trade and Distribution Data & Research Reports CME Group... View Details

Economics and Global Commerce | Working Knowledge

Economics and Global Commerce Explore global economic trends and challenges, from corporate debt’s role in downturns to trade with China, microfinance's impact, and the economic roots of political shifts. Insights for navigating debt,... View Details

November 2009
Article

Finding Missing Markets (and a Disturbing Epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan

Farmers may grow crops for local consumption despite more profitable export options. DrumNet, a Kenyan NGO that helps small farmers adopt and market export crops, conducted a randomized trial to evaluate its impact. DrumNet services increased production of export crops... View Details

Keywords: Export Crop; Field Experiment; Food Safety Standards; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Trade; Profit; Marketing; Standards; Failure; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Kenya; European Union

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June 1989 (Revised July 1993)
Case

CIGNA Worldwide

By: John A. Quelch

A CIGNA Worldwide (CWW) task group of European country directors and key functional managers is meeting in November 1988 to discuss how CWW should respond to the European Community's plan to remove existing internal barriers and restrictions to the free flow of goods... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Insurance; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Trade; Insurance Industry; Europe

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24 Apr 2014
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Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry

at the company’s core. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000 medical providers. The publicly traded company has won numerous honors, including Fast Company’s World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Health Care; MIT... View Details

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

Twitter soared high on its first day of trading on Nov. 7, with its shares closing the day at $45 for a value of $25 billion. Even though TWTR has yet to make money, investors flocked to the stock in droves, eager to own a part of the... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

01 Oct 1997
News

William K.L. Fung

told my father that I didn't want to be in a family company," says Fung with a chuckle. The elder Fung challenged his son to use his HBS skills to breathe new life into the trading company, founded by Fung's grandfather in Canton, China,... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Jun 2000
News

Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow

online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said... View Details

Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

the photographic and archival materials available, the Baker Old Class Collection is a valuable print based resource for researching the development of marketing and advertising in the interwar period. The collection mainly includes but is not limited to View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Liquid and Efficient

president and COO of Goldman Sachs, with a background in both trading and investment banking as well as an electrical engineering degree from MIT, Thain is known for his understanding of markets and technology. At a press conference in... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Armand Hammer

Hammer expanded Occidental Oil from a tiny, near-bankrupt California oil firm into one of the “Big Oil” companies - turning it into a conglomerate, beginning with the acquisition of an oil concession from Libya. Hammer was also instrumental in initiating View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Portrait Project

Sonali Duggal

On the last day of class, a professor left our section with the following words: "Unpack your bags." My grandmother moved from a village to New Delhi, sixty miles away. My mother traded a small circle in India for a small circle... View Details

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Careers, associations and events: medical devices

Represents independent manufacturers of medical devices, diagnostic products, and health care information systems. Web site includes a Career Center with job postings as well as articles and reports. See also: How can I find conferences and View Details

10 Mar 2017
News

As Head of Fidelity, Abigail Johnson Is Just Getting Started

record $3.5 billion operating profit for 2016, in part due to targeted expense cuts. Fidelity recently cut its fees for online brokerage trades on a bold bet it would result in a strong increase in transactions over its closest rival,... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

24 Apr 2014
News

Navigating rough waters

for the nuts and bolts of his company, from understanding the processing of checks to the most complicated financial report. He had been CEO of Bank One when JPMorgan Chase purchased it in 2004. During his tenure at JPMorgan Chase, where he serves as chairman and CEO,... View Details

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Finance Club

Keywords: Investment Banking / Sales & Trading

04 Jun 2020
News

Why Everyone Should Not Go to College

Keywords: Technical and Trade Schools; Technical and Trade Schools