Publications

18 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

recession has not been kind to marketers. In many multinationals, the positive financial impacts of recession-busting marketing plans have been obliterated by commodity price volatility and weaker-than-expected overseas earnings due to... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

2024
Working Paper

Priceless: How to Create, Trade, and Protect What Matters Most

By: Debora L. Spar

This article explores the concept of the "sacred economy," a realm of human interactions and exchanges that transcends traditional market dynamics. It illustrates the emotional and relational aspects of human connections that cannot be quantified or traded like... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Relationships; Human Needs; Goods and Commodities

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March 1986 (Revised December 1999)
Background Note

Financial Futures

Intended to establish understanding of financial futures. View Details

Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures

August 2004
Article

Auctions of Homogeneous Goods with Increasing Returns: Experimental Comparison of Alternative "Dutch" Auctions

By: Elena Katok and A. E. Roth

Keywords: Auctions; Goods and Commodities; Profit

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Economist Intelligence Unit | Baker Library

and telecommunications industries. Data tool can be used to compare economic data across or within countries or to report on prices of commodities in countries throughout the world. Get Access HBS Faculty, Students, and Staff Remote... View Details

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

investments from overlapping funds, left the Berkshire team in a difficult situation. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-034 Fair Value Accounting Controversy at Noble Group (A) Noble Group was a large... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

January 2013 (Revised January 2015)
Case

FX Risk Hedging at EADS

By: W. Carl Kester, Vincent Dessain and Karol Misztal

In 2008, EADS, the European aerospace group that owns Airbus, was faced with the decision of how best to hedge a large and growing mismatch between its dollar revenues and its euro manufacturing costs. Specifically, the company needed to decide if it would continue... View Details

Keywords: Derivatives; Foreign Exchange; Options; Forward Contract; Aerospace; Europe; Risk Management; Futures and Commodity Futures; Aerospace Industry; Europe

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

Working Papers Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910) Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract The literature on the rubber boom applied a dependendist view of rubber production in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Mar 2016
News

Building a Biotech Business from Farmed Fish

plasma. “Now, what could you create out of that? So many medical products, which really could make a difference. “The thing that we’re trying to do is, on the margins, take a commodity business—growing salmon—and interact with... View Details

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Introduction - The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

ideology and addressed Davenport’s concern that business school students tended “to look upon labor as a commodity and to ignore the human relations involved.” Among the collection’s holdings were the kinds of photographs publicity... View Details

22 Mar 2011
News

Maximum Cities

percent from 6.9 billion today. Implicit in the cross-sector gathering was this: Unprecedented demand on the planet's resources requires new solutions and a heavy reliance on strong public-private partnerships. Clean water, for example, is already such a scarce View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

August 1995 (Revised October 1996)
Case

Futures on the Mexican Peso

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Matthew McBrady and Mark Seasholes

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange needs to decide how to design, and whether and when to introduce, a futures contract on the Mexican peso. View Details

Keywords: Exchange Rates; Money Markets; Futures Market; Country Analysis; International Finance; Financial Markets; Futures and Commodity Futures; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; Mexico

November 2014
Teaching Note

Marketing Marijuana in Colorado

By: John A. Quelch

The case, set in the middle of 2014, reviews the first six months of marketplace activity in Colorado, following the legalization of marijuana for recreational use and the expansion of marijuana retailing from medical dispensaries to recreational stores. The case... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Innovations; Retail Government Services; Public Health; Agribusiness; Customers; Goods and Commodities; Government and Politics; Health; Marketing; Society; Consumer Products Industry; Distribution Industry; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; North and Central America

1982
Article

Incentive Compatibility in a Market with Indivisible Goods

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Markets; Goods and Commodities