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  • November 2024 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Polish Agro: Where Do We Grow From Here?

By: Willy C. Shih, Lena Duchene and Daniela Beyersdorfer
By July 2024, Polish Agro had grown into one of Poland’s fastest-growing agribusinesses, with €230 million in revenue, 82 employees, and operations across Northern Poland. The company supported farmers with essential agricultural inputs like fertilizers and seeds,... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Distribution; Volatility; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Profit; Trade; Digital Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Advertising; Brands and Branding; E-commerce; Business and Community Relations; Networks; Adaptation; Adoption; Competitive Advantage; Business Model; Health Pandemics; War; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; Poland
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  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

too volatile given the mean reversion in earnings. We show that high current ship earnings are associated with high secondhand ship prices and heightened industry investment in fleet capacity but forecast low future returns. We propose... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

rate. In addition, the real rate forecasts returns on the low-minus-high volatility portfolio, though it appears unrelated with measures of the quantity of risk. Our results suggest that precautionary savings motives, and thus the real... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

faster, cheaper, and better, but we avoid the expensive & volatile transportation hurdles. NorthPawSophie Levin, MBA 2022NorthPaw will sell sustainable pet food, featuring cultivated meat, to eco-conscious pet owners. If cats and dogs... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

asked his students. The class quickly reached consensus: Parker’s great, the idea is great, the context is pretty good—despite volatile interest rates—but from an investor’s point of view, the deal stinks. Well, true enough—except that... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

History’s Lessons

the lives of two men on a past polar expedition by traveling thirty miles without stopping to eat or sleep.... Here is a key insight for modern leaders: hire for attitude, train for skill. Shackleton understood that the more volatile and... View Details
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson
  • 03 Jun 2016
  • News

Again in a Great City

tightly to volatile gas prices and the faltering auto industry. From a resident’s point of view, life in a city with inconsistent municipal services and simmering racial tensions could be even more tenuous. While many suburbs prospered,... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Also, people are more attuned to the knowledge that geopolitical strife is influenced by environmental issues, such as how American dependence on Persian Gulf oil colors its behavior in that volatile region. It is only in recent years... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Profile

David A. Frankel

was possibly the worst year in recent memory to be fundraising. But in hindsight, it was a brilliant time to be investing, Frankel said. Early on, they bifurcated their strategy: they continued to make smaller angel investments of $100,000 to $200,000 in more View Details
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

Dreyfus Commodities (LDC or Dreyfus) is the D of the ABCD grain-trading giants. The case describes how their business works and details the strategy by which management turned the company around in recent years. The case presents a number of issues facing the company:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
  • Case

FJ Management Inc.

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Matthew G. Preble
In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company’s strategic direction. Maggelet, daughter of the company’s founder, has led FJ Management since 2009 when she stepped in as CEO... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Company History; Family Business; Transformation; Volatility; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Cash Flow; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Leadership; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Negotiation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Family Ownership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Travel Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Utah
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  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

explain the following stylized facts: (1) U.S. and Mexican output co-move more than consumption, (2) U.S. shocks have a larger effect on Mexico than in the U.S., (3) U.S. business cycles lead over medium-term fluctuations in Mexico, and (4) Mexican consumption is more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Matrix's management team wonders whether the recent market volatility presents an opportunity to add to their existing long position. This case highlights a variety of methodologies to valuate a high-growth company in the tech sector and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

bank moves more gradually. The same desire to mitigate bond-market volatility can lead the central bank to lower short rates sharply when publicly observed term premiums rise. In both cases, there is a time-consistency problem, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

sellers creates fragility-higher concentration results in more volatile risk premiums. I also employ a number of complementary approaches to address identification, such as using the 2011 Japanese tsunami as an exogenous shock to the risk... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308078 Leveraged Loans 2007 Harvard Business School Case 208-145 The leveraged loan market was in a crisis during the summer of 2007, following many years of low realized View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

problems. Wang: Beyond the advantages that Scott has mentioned, imagine you’re in a country where the currency is more volatile than cryptocurrencies, or where it’s highly risky to be carrying around cash. Cryptocurrencies can be... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

“I’m often asked about work-life balance, but the word ‘balance’ doesn’t click with me. Balance implies stasis—that there’s no volatility and everything is under control. We all know that’s not the case.” Data-driven: “When I came to... View Details
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

the trial? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-089 Investing in Volatility at Evanston Capital Management No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

company's commitment to sustainability mean that firms that ignore this do so at their own risk. BMW Group has been a leader in recognizing this. Several years ago, it issued a Sustainable Value Report detailing energy consumed, water consumed, waste removed, and View Details
Keywords: by Staff