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- 1993
- Working Paper
Currency Hedging Over Long Horizons
By: K. A. Froot
This paper reexamines the widely-held wisdom that the currency exposure of international investments should be entirely hedged. It finds that the previously documented ability of hedges to reduce portfolio return variance holds at short horizons, but not at long... View Details
- May 1991 (Revised May 1992)
- Case
Georgia-Pacific Corp.: Corporate Strategy
By: Michael E. Porter and Garth Saloner
- May 1991
- Article
Presidential Commitment and the Veto
By: Daniel E. Ingberman and Dennis Yao
A president's power to veto is widely recognized as an important weapon in the struggle with Congress over legislation. In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of the veto weapon with a simple model of presidential powers that incorporates informal institutional... View Details
- March 1991 (Revised May 1992)
- Case
Great Northern Nekoosa vs. Georgia-Pacific: Check Paper
By: Michael E. Porter and Garth Saloner
Keywords: Pulp and Paper Industry
- December 1990 (Revised December 1993)
- Case
Australian Paper Manufacturers (A)
By: David M. Upton and Joshua D. Margolis
Describes a company which has broken an unwritten cordial agreement amongst the three Australian paper manufacturers to split the domestic market three ways by market segment. The company invades another's "territory" with advanced technology, quality, and,... View Details
- December 1990 (Revised December 1993)
- Supplement
Australian Paper Manufacturers (B)
By: David M. Upton and Joshua D. Margolis
Describes events that occur after the decision point in Australian Paper Manufacturers (A). With these facts and more detailed market projections, this case intensifies the long-term financial, strategic, and ethical decisions confronting the invader. View Details
- October 1990 (Revised May 1994)
- Case
Confederated Pulp & Paper
By: David E. Bell
A rewritten version of an old case that updates the dates and prices and simplifies the economics. The issue is still one of determining a suitable inventory of wood for the mill to last through the winter. View Details
- Article
Fly-by-Night Firms and the Market for Product Reviews
By: Gerald R. Faulhaber and Dennis A. Yao
This paper presents a model that permits third-party information provision in a market characterized by information asymmetries and reputation formation. The model is used to examine how the market for information provision affects prices and supply in the primary... View Details
- December 1988
- Article
Strategic Responses to Automobile Emissions Control: A Game-Theoretic Analysis
By: Dennis Yao
This paper examines the dynamics of standard-setting regulation under technological uncertainty and asymmetric information about technological capability. A two-period model which allows fully strategic action is developed and applied to the regulation of automobile... View Details
- June 1988 (Revised July 1988)
- Case
Finnpap/Finnboard: Fin-Project (B)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Tapio Reponen and Richard G Mills
- September 1986 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
Solagen: Process Improvement in the Manufacture of Gelatin at Kodak
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Brian DeLacey
Kodak must decide whether to make a major investment in a production facility designed around a new technique for producing the gelatin critical to so many film and paper products. Currently, gelatin making is an arcane art, unchanged in 150 years and heavily dependent... View Details
- April 1986
- Teaching Note
Expense Tracking System at Tiger Creek, Teaching Note
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Teaching Note for (9-485-057). View Details
Keywords: Pulp and Paper Industry
- November 1985 (Revised August 1989)
- Case
Finnpap/Finnboard (A)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Tapio Reponen and Duncan Copeland
- December 1984
- Case
Expense Tracking System at Tiger Creek
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Mill manager Carl Adelman learns that a group of senior managers is soon to visit the Tiger Creek mill to learn more about the success of the newly implemented Expense Tracking System. The System had been installed on two paper machines to give workers real time cost... View Details
- January 1984
- Article
A Simulation Analysis of Alternative Pricing Strategies for Dynamic Environments
By: Robert J. Dolan
Researchers of the strategic implications of the well-known demand (e.g., adoption and diffusion) and supply (e.g., experience effects) dynamics have typically sought analytical solutions. Their success in this has been achieved partly by limiting the richness of the... View Details
- June 1983
- Teaching Note
Note on the Paper Machinery Industry, Teaching Note
Teaching Note for (9-383-185). View Details
Keywords: Pulp and Paper Industry
- June 1983 (Revised April 1991)
- Case
Dominion Engineering Works
Dominion Engineering Works faces important strategic decisions about whether to continue its focused strategy of selling newsprint machines to the Canadian paper industry or whether recent changes in industry conditions and the emergence of three global competitors... View Details
- June 1983
- Background Note
Note on the Paper Machinery Industry
Describes the major structural changes taking place in the paper industry in the 1970s: major oil and pulp price increases, pollution legislation, a shift in industry development from OECD countries to LDCs and NICs and the technological revolution in paper making.... View Details