Goods and Commodities - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

good times. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-037.pdf What Impedes Oil and Gas Companies' Transparency? Authors:Paul Healy, Venkat Kuppuswamy, and George... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

true? As it turned out, good teams, which value communication, report more errors. In a recent research paper Edmondson and doctoral student Sara Singer explore this and other... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

becomes evident that digital communications will fundamentally reshape the way businesses market, and often deliver, goods and services. The current communications revolution... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

25 Aug 2022
News

Full Stream Ahead

stands out as the rare commodity that remains as lucrative in the good times as the bad, since we don’t switch off the radio—or stop watching the films or TV shows that license music View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

center of the country and to move goods from the factory to customer. The prosperity that began on the coast spread inland in the first decade of the new century. Q: What were the first red flags that... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

27 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Taking the LEAP into the Case Method

of experience in teaching and executive management. No matter how complex the situations of leadership we were discussing through the cases, he could narrate clearly. He also had a good sense of humor, which... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

strategy for how you actually get to those results. For example, the MCC made a $550 million grant to the government of Ghana that was focused on infrastructure such as irrigation and roads that could get farm View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Nicole Ledoux

finance. She started her career in investment management at Putnam Investments as a fixed income quantitative analyst. Post-HBS, she worked at Constellation Energy in London in portfolio management, where she co-managed a 400MM physical View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Investment Management; Financial Services (All)

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

A recent study suggests that America’s political polarization is driven more by incorrect beliefs and stereotypes about the other side than distaste with those people. That should be good news for those... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

10 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

premia determined mainly by the product of risk aversion and the nominal-real covariance. The concavity of the yield curve—the level of intermediate-term bond yields, relative to the average of short- and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems

Excellence Comes From Saying No Why it's better to be excellent at one thing than good at everything. Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees Think effective leadership requires gregariousness View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111016-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111029-PDF-ENG Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A) Clayton S. Rose and David... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

work they are already doing. For, example I am helping a major U.S. utility look at the implications of possible carbon regulation and the way they structure their business. I'm working with a large consumer View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent this Summer Coding

Eisenmann’s Startup Bootcamp, Rock Accelerator, and Harvard Innovation Labs Venture Incubation Program all teach entrepreneurial best practices. Despite good effort, finding a technical co-founder remains a... View Details

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

It's easy to deliver lousy service. Examples are too numerous to mention and let's not ruin the day, shall we? But imagine this: How about living in a world where companies treat you, as a customer, nicely View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 13

of leadership in political, economic, and symbolic institutions as a result of one of three types of leadership: good leadership, misguided leadership, and evil leadership.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Managing Family Strife: Market Baskets Lessons about Buyouts

You'd have to have been sleeping under a rock to miss the family war and media frenzy over Market Basket, the Boston-based, family-owned supermarket chain. The confrontation between two cousins (both named Arthur Demoulas) over control of the company was finally... View Details

05 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

excellence in terms of patient value, given their particular patient mix, skills, and other circumstances. In each medical condition, providers must decide what roles they will play in the care cycle, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

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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

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

stir. Halliburton has moved its home for managerial talent to Dubai. Transocean recently announced it was reincorporating to Switzerland. News Corporation left Australia for the United States. Even Bono and U2 left Ireland! I've had the... View Details