Trading - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2002
News

John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera

aftermath of September 11. Although Mulroney's hours are just as long as they were at Rohm and Haas, he's traded in late dinners with corporate clients for evenings of Don Giovanni and working the room at champagne receptions. (When... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Bozidar Djelic

two or three days a week on the road, out in the countryside, having direct contact with citizens. I attend local council meetings, talk with entrepreneurs, visit trade unions — I've intervened to stop about eighteen strikes; that's... View Details

17 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Going the Distance for Investment Excellence

financial analyst position with Goldman Sachs in mortgage trading and investment banking—but not until first earning a GMAT score he felt would later secure his acceptance at HBS. “In those seven weeks after graduation I did little but... View Details

July 2000 (Revised April 2001)
Case

Agricultural Biotechnology and its Regulation

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

In the United States, genetically modified corn and soybeans are now widely grown and consumed. In Europe, however, they have been dubbed "Frankenstein foods," shunned by packaged food manufacturers, and subjected to a host of governmental restrictions. This case... View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Genetics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Strategy; Trade; Law; Goods and Commodities; Safety; Environmental Sustainability; Government and Politics; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Europe; United States

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11 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

Yet this literature has had much more to say about international trade and institutional structures than about entrepreneurship and MNEs. Indeed, the story of the creation of the nineteenth-century global economy has been written about... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

31 Oct 2006
HBS Case

Governing Sumida Corporation

governance structure that would be transparent to investors and stakeholders anywhere in the world. The more we talked, the more it seemed like a way to understand the economic, legal, and cultural changes that were taking place in Japan." A family-controlled but... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Electronics

01 Sep 2017
News

Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up

generations of Cuban refugees fought for control of the drug trade in Miami.” Classic Havana Nocturne How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T.J. English “All these mobsters are dead, but the author, through... View Details

Keywords: April White; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Aug 2013
News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

manufacturing hives and offering village-level demonstrations and training. A social enterprise that has won multiple international awards, Honey Care also provides a guaranteed market at fair trade prices for the honey produced by... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Jun 2012
News

IPA Meets IPO

KOCH: Putting shares of the company in the hands of the people who really believe in its product. Lots of business executives tout the importance of focusing on the customer. But craft brewmeister Jim Koch (MBA 1974), founder and chairman of the Boston Beer Company and... View Details

Keywords: beer; Wholesale Trade; Wholesale Trade; Wholesale Trade; Wholesale Trade

01 Jun 2009
News

Can’t Forget the Motor City

In a flurry of activity in Detroit in March, the acronym “HBS” was almost as much in evidence as “GM.” It wasn’t just the departure of GM chief Rick Wagoner (MBA ’77) and the accession of his replacement, Fritz Henderson (MBA ’84). Also on the scene were Diana Farrell... View Details

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

01 Sep 2013
News

The New Rules of E-Commerce

One day in 2010 the CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced that thousands of employees would soon conduct business in a tongue most of them knew nothing about: English. Within days all the signs at the Tokyo headquarters were in the new language. Founding... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; e-commerce; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

02 Apr 2013
News

Japan's Answer to Jeff Bezos Sets Sights on Amazon, America

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

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

29 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 29

non-fundamental risk. We define an asset to be fragile if it is susceptible to non-fundamental trading shocks. An asset can be fragile because of concentrated ownership or because its owners face correlated liquidity shocks, i.e., they... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

to join a start-up established by a former colleague. Wall Street traders are not known for their indecision, and this one had been a star, staking millions of dollars on his trading instincts and closing dozens of securities deals daily.... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

2008
Working Paper

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

In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted... View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Profit; Product Marketing; Standards; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Service Industry; Kenya; Europe

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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

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

than taxing them more heavily. Similarly, the weight of the empirical evidence is that foreign activity is a complement, rather than a substitute, for domestic activity. Much as the formulation of trade policy requires resisting the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

Profile

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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