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  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

Europe passed laws resembling America's Sherman Act. The European Community in particular instituted stringent regulations designed to break down trade barriers and maximize interfirm competition within and... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

sources and gather new perspectives." Bennett and Lemoine recommend reaching out “to partners, customers, researchers, trade groups, and perhaps even competitors” in times of uncertainty, View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • April 2025
  • Article

Crisis Interventions in Corporate Insolvency

By: Samuel Antill and Christopher Clayton
We model the optimal resolution of insolvent firms in general equilibrium. Collateral-constrained banks lend to (i) solvent firms to finance investments and (ii) distressed firms to avoid liquidation. Liquidations create negative fire-sale externalities. Liquidations... View Details
Keywords: Insolvent Firms; Government Intervention; Liquidation; Econometric Models; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Policy
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  • November 1998 (Revised November 1999)
  • Case

British Sugar in China

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Srinivas Sunder
British Sugar, the first major diversification of Associated British Foods, is entering China as part of the global sweetener, starch, and ingredient strategy. View Details
Keywords: Trade; Food; Globalization; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Diversification; Consumer Products Industry; China; United Kingdom
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  • 05 May 2011
  • News

Breaking Ground in Manufacturing

Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 11 Jun 2012
  • News

Starting Up in Brazil

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

    Inequality regimes in Africa from pre-colonial times to the present

    While current levels of economic inequality in Africa receive ample attention from academics and policymakers, we know little about the long-run evolution of inequality in the region. Even the new and influential ‘global inequality literature’ that is associated... View Details

    • 24 Feb 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

    companies hoping to do business across the southern tier of Africa. With the emergence of New Partnership for Africa's Development and the African Growth and Opportunity Act, the overall climate for trade and investment View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • 09 Dec 2016
    • News

    Criminal business executives just don’t get why they’re in jail

    • 01 Jun 2023
    • News

    In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

    developing infrastructure projects and intra-Africa trade as well as those in value-added exports from Africa to international markets. “I’m happiest about a project when I feel we’ve established a real... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance
    • Article

    Best Practices in Estimating the Cost of Capital: Survey and Synthesis

    By: Robert Bruner, Kenneth M. Eades, Robert S. Harris and Robert F. Higgins
    This paper presents the results of a cost-of-capital survey of 27 highly regarded corporations, ten leading financial advisers, and seven best selling textbooks and trade books. The results show close alignment among all these groups on the use of common theoretical... View Details
    Keywords: Cost of Capital
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    • December 2013
    • Case

    Grupo Beta San Miguel

    By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
    In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he considers whether BSM should bid on one of the state-owned sugar mills slated for... View Details
    Keywords: Mexico; Jose Pinto; Beta San Miguel; Polycrom; Sugar; World Sugar Trade; NAFTA; Strategy; Trade; Futures and Commodity Futures; Agribusiness; Price; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Mexico; United States; North America
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    • Research Summary

    Investment and marketing strategies of American multinationals in Argentina (1890c-1939)

    Andrea Lluch is undertaking a major research project on American business expansion in Argentina up to the beginning of World War II. The first part of the project focuses on the American companies investment strategies. The second part analyses of the evolution of... View Details
    • April–May 2021
    • Article

    Labor Mobility and Antitakeover Provisions

    By: Aiyesha Dey and Joshua White
    How do firms protect their human capital? We test whether firms facing an increased threat of being acquired strengthen their antitakeover provisions (ATPs) in order to bond with their employees. We use the adoption of the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine (IDD) by U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: Labor Mobility; Antitakeover Provisions; Trade Secrets; Implicit Contracting; Employee Bonding; Corporate Governance; Acquisition; Human Capital; Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Safety
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    The Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia

    By: Rawi Abdelal
    Although the energy trade is the single most important element of nearly all European countries' relations with Russia, Europe has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national... View Details
    Keywords: Performance; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Profit; Framework; Corporate Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Policy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Government and Politics; Energy Industry; Europe; Russia; France; Germany; Italy
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    • 05 Apr 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

    also offer other forms of evidence of past success in similar relationships, such as media or trade reports. 3. Make dependence a factor The more dependent you are on someone, the more willing you'll be to... View Details
    Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
    • 03 Nov 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses

    Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Michael Schwarz; Publishing
    • 24 Feb 2023
    • Blog Post

    My Classroom Experience During Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program

    discussion groups; and trading stories of life experiences and sidesplitting tales of professional gaffes in the HBS courtyard. Whatever awaited me at Harvard Business School, I thought, would be... View Details
    • Article

    Doing Business with Strangers: Reputation in Online Service Marketplaces

    By: Antonio Moreno and Christian Terwiesch
    Online service marketplaces allow service buyers to post their project requests and service providers to bid for them. To reduce the transactional risks, marketplaces typically track and publish previous seller performance. By analyzing a detailed transactional data... View Details
    Keywords: Online Service Marketplace; Procurement; Auctions; Reputation; Bids and Bidding
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    • January 2025 (Revised April 2025)
    • Case

    Doing Business in Cairo: Navigating a Path to Economic Resilience

    By: A. Zelleke and Ahmed Dahawy
    Egypt has long been a pivotal force in the Middle East and North Africa. Located at a crossroads of global trade routes, the country was a strategic partner for numerous regional and global powers. However, a substantial currency devaluation in 2016 brought many... View Details
    Keywords: Business; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Inflation and Deflation; Macroeconomics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Economies and Regions; International Relations; Emerging Markets; Risk and Uncertainty; Culture; Economy; Country; Currency; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Egypt
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