Futures and Commodity Futures - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2001
Background Note

Extracting Information from the Futures and Forwards Markets: The Relation between Spot Prices, Forward Prices and Expected Future Spot Prices

Discounted cash flow valuation calls for using expected future prices of inputs or outputs. This case describes the relationship between spot prices, forward/future prices, and expected future prices. Knowing current forward and future prices alone is not enough to... View Details

Keywords: Price; Cash Flow; Valuation; Futures and Commodity Futures

Citation

Educators

Purchase

22 Feb 2017
News

Funding Solar’s Future

Photos courtesy Double Time Capital Photos courtesy Double Time Capital A recent Fortune article profiles Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on utility-scale solar farms in North Carolina founded by Rye Barcott (MBA 2009) and... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

Bridging Present Capabilities and Future Success: Organizational Ambidexterity

IESE presentation - 21 September 2014 - Madrid

Large, incumbent firms are often handicapped by their inability to explore new opportunities. Great firms, on the other hand, are able to overcome the tension between present and future success by exploiting and... View Details

31 Jul 2023
HBS Conference

Future of AI and Economics

November–December 2020
Article

Our Work-from-Anywhere Future

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

The pandemic has hastened a rise in remote working for knowledge-based organizations. This has notable benefits: Companies can save on real estate costs, hire and utilize talent globally, mitigate immigration issues, and experience productivity gains, while workers can... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; Best Practices; Employment; Health Pandemics; Geographic Location; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges

Citation

Find at Harvard

Register to Read

30 Jun 2015
News

The History and Future of Operations

Research Summary

The Future of Market Capitalism

By: Joseph L. Bower

In 2009 we are aware of the fragile state of our market system. But a careful examination of the long term prospects for the global economy reveal other problems that may destabilize the system that has created so much wealth in the period since the second world... View Details

11 Jun 2021
News

The Future of Teaching and Learning

Web

Future Positive - Managing the Future of Work

Research Research Future Positive: How Companies Can Tap Into Employee Optimism to Navigate Tomorrow’s Workplace By: By: Joseph B. Fuller Joseph B. Fuller , , Judith Wallenstein Judith Wallenstein , , Manjari Raman Manjari Raman & & Alice... View Details

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

"Boardroom Challenges," The Future of Boards Why so many directors were reflecting on the board's role is difficult to pinpoint. A partial answer undoubtedly rests in the fact that regulations and laws offer... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

Article

Nudging: Progress to Date and Future Directions

By: John Beshears and Harry Kosowsky

Nudges influence behavior by changing the environment in which decisions are made, without restricting the menu of options and without altering financial incentives. This paper assesses past empirical research on nudging and provides recommendations for future work in... View Details

Keywords: Nudge; Choice Architecture; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Science; Behavior; Change; Situation or Environment; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making

Citation

Read Now

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

Future of Diplomacy Project and Harvard University's South Asia Institute, brought together diplomats, security experts, and entrepreneurs in a conversation that ought to occur... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

2005
Case

ORIX: Future Challenge

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi

Keywords: Problems and Challenges

Citation

Fast Answer

Bloomberg: comparing futures

How can I compare futures in Bloomberg? See How can I locate futures information in Bloomberg? to determine the ticker for the future contracts of interest. Type... View Details

January 2009 (Revised November 2010)
Case

The Dojima Rice Market and the Origins of Futures Trading

By: David A. Moss and Eugene Kintgen

In 1730, Japanese merchants petitioned shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune to officially authorize trade in rice futures at the Dojima Exchange, the world's first organized (but unsanctioned) futures market. For many years, the Japanese government had prohibited the trade of... View Details

Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures; Price; Food; Business History; Market Transactions; Business and Government Relations; Japan

Citation

Educators

Purchase

28 Mar 2011
News

Future of India's Retail Market

India: The Future of Retail

India: The Future of Retail – Panel Discussion co-hosted by CNBC and Virtuous Retail, a Xander investee company View Details

08 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Colloquium: The Future of Social Enterprise

Date: March 27-28, 2008 Chairs: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard, and Susan McDonald Faculty Summary Report Colloquium: The Future of Social Enterprise In our working paper, The View Details

Keywords: Re: V. Kasturi Rangan & Dutch Leonard