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Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

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Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

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Amy Long

smashing. Now, I write — but only in bullets, always in threes, and never below the fold. In the commodities business, there is only fact, never fiction. Yet even as I tamped down my creative side in favor of the analytical, it reared up... View Details

January 2009 (Revised November 2010)
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The Dojima Rice Market and the Origins of Futures Trading

By: David A. Moss and Eugene Kintgen

In 1730, Japanese merchants petitioned shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune to officially authorize trade in rice futures at the Dojima Exchange, the world's first organized (but unsanctioned) futures market. For many years, the Japanese government had prohibited the trade of... View Details

Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures; Price; Food; Business History; Market Transactions; Business and Government Relations; Japan

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07 Sep 2017
Cold Call Podcast

Faber-Castell Doubles Down on the Pencil

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Information Technology; Manufacturing

September 2020
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Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig

By: Sunil Gupta, Jonathan Levav and Julia Kelley

In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company’s upcoming product launch. Formed through a joint venture between Keurig Dr. Pepper and Anheuser-Busch InBev, Drinkworks had developed an... View Details

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

of print publications. Adopting color offered another way to make a bold photographic statement in a print publication.” 10 As photograph historian Sally Stein writes, however, “So long as the linkage between colors and commodities... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

carbon can be transmuted into a valuable commodity at scale. On the Brink of Utopia is a hopeful and visionary book that reimagines the roles of innovators, citizens, governments, and financial markets to foster innovation leaps that... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

Harvard Business Review editor-at-large, Nicholas G. Carr, ignited a firestorm in the opinion piece "Why IT Doesn't Matter" published in the May 2003 issue of HBR. Carr's argument wasn't exactly that IT doesn't matter, but rather that it has become a View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

11 Aug 2008
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Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

describe organizations that have successfully implemented their strategies. They operate in varied regions and industries, including manufacturing, financial services, consumer services, nonprofit, educational, and public sector. Their strategies differ; some produce... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

investment markets. The same is true of commodity markets. Hedge funds are now very active in equity markets and are making equity markets much more like currency markets; that is, speculative markets rather than investment markets.... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting

the 1800s, the American economy embarked on a long, slow transition from a system in which most goods and services were produced for household consumption or local sale to an economy in which commodities were produced for a larger... View Details

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

dollars (or perceived that payments would be interrupted). Firms operating in the commodity markets also saw their revenues shrinking, and struggled to meet obligations in (dollar) debt. As a result, most of them turn to banks to obtain... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course) The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details

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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition Expatriate Traders... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Western leadership; the United States’ weakened economy after 2008; post-COVID deficits and debt in Latin America, Africa and Europe; and the conditions of energy and commodity markets post-Ukrainian war. Slides June 10-11 Reunion... View Details

27 Sep 2021
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Working to Change the Food System

sugars or vegetable oils, using a lot less land and resources. It’s no secret that these are powerful organisms, but past attempts to scale production have faced challenging unit economics (high up-front capital costs for facilities, selling into View Details

21 Jan 2022
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Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

are familiar with.” And it’s a model she believes could also transform the coffee industry and other commodity supply chains. “The economics of coffee are some of the most challenging out there,” explains Nyamumbo, who herself grew up on... View Details

23 Jun 2003
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Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

in commodity markets. The three pairs represented different parts of the value chain: supplier-manufacturer, manufacturer-distributor, and manufacturer-customer. "People have always argued that depending on where you are in the... View Details