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13 Mar 2014
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David Moss, Harvard Business School

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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

markets, potential trade avenues, observations on Asian culture, statistical information on goods, and the variety of goods available for purchase. Digital Accessibility Contact Baker Library Historical... View Details

April 2025
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Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact

By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal

In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details

Keywords: Technical Institutes; Community Relations; Social Impact; Argentina; Mexico; Brazil; Conglomerate; Stakeholder Management; Government And Business; Community Impact; Philanthropy; Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Business Headquarters; Family Business; Decision Making; Private Sector; Public Sector; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Teaching; Training; Learning; Energy; Engineering; Construction; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Recruitment; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge; Resource Allocation; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Construction Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; Italy; Latin America; North and Central America; Mexico; North America; United States; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Brazil

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December 2018
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Soybean Production in Argentina: The Duhau Group

By: José B. Alvarez and Mariana Cal

Crop-planning was affected by macroeconomic factors including international disputes, commodity prices, local tax, and agricultural policies, etc. Enrique and Alejandro Duhau, co-owners of the Duhau Group, analyzed these factors, as well as technical and financial... View Details

Keywords: Trade Negotiations; Soybeans; Production; Trading; Agribusiness; Decision Making; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Economics; Macroeconomics; Goods and Commodities; Government and Politics; International Relations; Trade; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; South America; Argentina

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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising

all-inclusive quality of trade catalogs, trade cards offered a more intimate presentation with which companies could announce their line of business and products. Produced in a... View Details

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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

distinct means of communication and distribution to a mass audience. Trade catalogs, for example, became an integral way of merchandising new industrial products created from the enormous factory output... View Details

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

smarter trades, according to the findings of a study by Soltes, an assistant professor at HBS, and David Solomon, a professor at the USC Marshall School of Business. To conduct the research, the duo obtained... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Harvard Business School

founded Biodrill Technical Solutions, a provider of sustainable energy-related products and services. Augustine has also served as CEO and president of Eltrex Industries at... View Details

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Related Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

newspapers on nineteenth-century trade and commerce in China and Hong Kong. In addition to prominent titles such as “China Maritime Customs & View Details

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

and Malloy have turned their attention to the federal legislative process in the United States, researching how school ties influence logrolling—the quid pro quo process in which members of Congress View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Feb 2019
HBS Seminar

Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics

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Site Credits - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits Site Credits Curator: Melissa Banta EXHIBITION ADVISORS: Faculty and Colleagues from Harvard Business School and the Faculty of Arts View Details

11 Apr 2016
HBS Seminar

Pian Shu, Harvard Business School

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Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

markets and trade policy is causing disruption globally, with low-income people... Events 2025 Jul 27 Jul-02 Aug Executive Education: Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management This week-long on-campus... View Details

23 Mar 2012
HBS Seminar

Dan Kahan, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Foods, Johnson & Johnson, USX Corp. (United States Steel), Westinghouse Electric, and Weyerhaeuser. The railway system, as historian Henry Adams explained in his celebrated 1907 autobiography, “required new machinery to be... View Details

22 Apr 2015
HBS Seminar

Riitta Katila, Stanford School of Engineering

01 Jun 2013
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School of Hard Knocks

and eighth graders gang-tackled me. Every day after that, I was kicked, punched, spit on, or pinched, due solely to the color of my skin. Lying in the dirt and grease under a pickup truck was serenity... View Details

Keywords: discrimination; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

21 May 2019
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Meet The Female Physicist Who Sifts Through Corporate Babble For Trades To Beat The Street

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

culture of Renaissance Italy and its emphasis on cultivating the whole person. “It wasn’t just about pursuing a noble ideal, either,” Roscini adds, “if you followed this path, you would be more successful.” With that said, the art of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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