Trading - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2012
News

What Industrial Policy?

glory days, when it employed about a quarter of the US workforce. The case for special treatment That said, there are some compelling reasons the government should give manufacturing special treatment: Lowering the trade deficit. It may... View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Agriculture; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Manufacturing

18 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity

have retained Best Buy's reputation for sound values (and his own). Contrast these actions with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who took immediate responsibility for his firm's recent trading losses, calling them "stupid and... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Education

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Patrick Chun

opportunity to interact with so many unique people. You find your own sense of leadership style by working with high-level peers every day. I would never trade this experience for anything else." Once his MBA is complete, Patrick... View Details

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

private firms, the regulatory environment, and the role of the government in business activities. Furthermore, as relations between the world's two largest economies, the U.S. and China, deteriorate further, companies must find creative solutions to counter ongoing... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

balance between nations on trade and tariff issues, as well as a more globally competitive US corporate tax rate. Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, cochairs of the US Competitiveness Project at HBS, define competitiveness as “the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2007
News

Avon CEO Jung on Leadership

Jung Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., knows a thing or two about reinvention. After taking over the venerable beauty-products firm in 1999, she helped it shed the last vestiges of its “Ding-dong, Avon calling” image and morph into a glamorous... View Details

Keywords: makeup; grooming; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

attributable to comparability. Together, the findings are consistent with mandatory IFRS adoption improving comparability and thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

who accompanied his own goods to trade fairs. Taking this concept as its point of departure, this essay focuses on the predominantly Italian merchants who controlled the long-distance East-West trade of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources

have the motivation that you are doing something that could be meaningful to the world helps you stick it out through the hard times." A mechanical engineer by trade who had worked in design for Honda and Toyota, Schrader came to... View Details

04 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water

recognized the river as a “Heritage River” in part because of its importance to the inland waterways that facilitated the fur trade for centuries. In 1989, Ontario established this waterway as the French River Provincial Park. Water is... View Details

12 Mar 2014
News

10 Harvard Business School Startups You Should Know

Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

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Champion International Corp.: Timber, Trade, and the Northern Spotted Owl

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

Champion's forest products division owns timberlands, sawmills, and plywood mills in the Pacific Northwest. The listing of the northern spotted owl as an endangered species, and restrictions on exports of logs from state-owned lands, have disrupted the stumpage, log... View Details

Keywords: Science-Based Business; Natural Environment; Product Marketing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Strategy; Trade; Decisions; Management Teams; Forest Products Industry; North and Central America

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11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

policy, with a Pareto‐efficient objective that trades off this principle and conventional utilitarianism, is simulated using conventional constraints and methods. A wide range of optimal policy outcomes can result, including those that... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Teams | New Venture Competition

Pattullo (MBA 2025), Bahaa Hafez Latent Energy enables EV owners to monetize the excess capacity in their vehicle's battery. Latent Energy also provides the in-home hardware and software to enable bi-directional EV charging and then aggregates this capacity to View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World

Are limits or balance possible? Clemens Aichholzer (MBA 2003), London, England Additional Reading Scott Howe (MBA 1994) is making Big Data–driven marketing more transparent We've been trading privacy for convenience for a long time—from... View Details

Keywords: cybersecurity; Information

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

Political and Social Systems. Every country's political system affects its product, labor, and capital markets. In socialist societies like China, for instance, workers cannot form independent trade unions in the labor market, which... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

PublicationsThe Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia Authors:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Review of International Political Economy (forthcoming) Abstract Although the energy trade is the single most important element of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2013
Supplement

To JV or Not To JV? That Is the Question (for XTech in China)

This is the Spreadsheet Supplement for To JV or Not To JV? That is the Question (for XTech in China) HBS Case 807118. Includes Exhibit 1. View Details

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June 2005
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Overview of the Japanese Apparel Market

By: Rajiv Lal and Arar Han

Provides an overview of the Japanese apparel market, which was a 13.1 trillion yen industry in 2003, reflecting 5.5% year-over-year shrinkage since 1997, when retailers logged 17.5 trillion yen in sales. Compared to their global counterparts, Japanese apparel shoppers... View Details