World Sugar Trade - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

past few years (yes there are some). It is true that Greece reformed laws and regulations to make its economy more open to foreign trade and as a result more competitive. Trade (defined as the sum of exports... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

15 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-078.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (A) Harvard Business School Case 707-029 At the 2005 Group of Eight summit, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

industry moved from steel tubes to carbon fiber ones, the cluster took hold in Taiwan because that's where the expertise is in fabricating and molding carbon fiber. "If the prices go up there, it's not like you can just reestablish that capability locally," he says.... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

09 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands

structure) or you have to cut distribution to restore the exclusivity of the brand. Expect the 600 store closings to be the first of a series of downsizing announcements. Sometimes, in the world of marketing, less is more. Schultz sought,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

01 Sep 2006
News

East to West

Issues surrounding corporate governance are a source of ongoing debate in the boardrooms of companies around the world — not just the United States. A new case, “Governing Sumida Corporation,” takes readers inside a Japanese manufacturer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

01 Apr 2002
News

John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera

training, and dramatically lower compensation. (Mulroney provides his services pro bono.) "The nonprofit world can be difficult for executives who are accustomed to efficiency and large-company, big-budget solutions to problems," Mulroney... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Bozidar Djelic

two or three days a week on the road, out in the countryside, having direct contact with citizens. I attend local council meetings, talk with entrepreneurs, visit trade unions — I've intervened to stop about eighteen strikes; that's... View Details

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?

upper Amazon, they brought people a taste of America, along with the promise of freedom and prosperity. The end of the Cold War signaled victory for Brand America. As closed economies opened up to foreign trade and investment, Brand... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

Channel by Connie Sage (University of Virginia Press) Among his many accomplishments, the late Frank Batten Sr. (MBA 1952) created the Weather Channel in 1982, which became the largest private weather company in the world and an American... View Details

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

01 Jun 2024
News

Action Plan: Role-Play

When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; photo by Christina Gandolfo; detective; private investigator; undercover; acting

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

investors execute similar trades through the same broker, allowing them to capture returns that are twice as large as their normal trading performance. Similarly, we show that the clients of the broker... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

you over and right away you will be a star working for us." (Indeed, at the end of the 2009 season, Epstein had publicly stated that his team was "kind of in a bridge period." This was upsetting to Bostonians; their team had swept the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking

01 Jan 2011
News

Robert Kraft, MBA 1965

privately held company's diverse concerns were sowed in 1965 when Kraft went to work at Rand-Whitney, a packaging company he later acquired in a leveraged buyout. Seven years later, he founded International Forest Products, now one of the largest privately held paper... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Balanced Equation

In the course of their outstanding professional careers, this year’s five recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award — the School’s highest honor — have had an enormous impact on the world of business. A surprising key to their success?... View Details

Keywords: James Aisner;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna;Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

15 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

impact in the world and didn’t want to be a cog in a wheel. He said, ‘Instead of sitting here in the US talking about this, why don’t you come to Nigeria and implement some of these ideas?’” Dozie accepted the offer and moved to northern... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

attributable to comparability. Together, the findings are consistent with mandatory IFRS adoption improving comparability and thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

services. Diagnostic-for-All (DFA) Jon Puz, MBA 2008 Gilbert Tang, MBA 2008 Krishna Yeshwant, MBA 2009 Diagnostic-For-All (DFA) is a non-profit enterprise that seeks to deliver affordable point-of-care diagnostic solutions to the global medical community. Millions of... View Details

14 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the... View Details