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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
packaging the fertilizer in 1- and 10-kilogram sizes, and reinforced the stitching to prevent middlemen from breaking into them. To reach farmers outside the trading areas, Notore trained more than a thousand "Village Promoters," who sold... View Details
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
modified DuPont ratios 8-10 hrs Module 4 Valuation Assess the pros and cons of different valuation methods, examine how to apply them in investing, and apply valuation theory and techniques to publicly traded companies’ valuations.... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
trade and production for the Ministry of Agriculture, has won a WTO sugar decision for Brazil against the EU sugar policies. This case analyzes what this decision will mean to world food policies, especially those of the EU and the United... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006
transacting in what feels awfully like a market. Continuity and Change in the International Diamond Market Author:Debora Spar Periodical:Journal of Economic Perspectives 20, no. 3 (summer 2006): 195-208 Abstract The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
political process allows these taxes—or subsidies—to be hidden in rules, regulations, and foreign policy decisions. "The resulting market prices for energy should be enforced in international trade with... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
family business field is very international now, too. In most Western countries you now find at least a few people per country very engaged in family business research and doing some consulting. In terms of research, we're getting further... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Government: Yes Or No? Shin Yasunobe, a former director within various departments of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), and now executive director of Stanford's Japan Center for... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
free trade zones began the transformation of China’s state-run economy. In the 1990s, you saw a significant easing of restrictions on startups—first in the restaurant industry and gradually spreading elsewhere. Small, state-owned... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
strengthened. These changes may reflect the growing role for the euro as a reserve currency in the international financial system. The risk-minimizing currency strategy for a global bond investor is close to a full currency hedge, with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
bucked the odds, winning the company accolades in the press, shelf space at major (and minor) retailers, and the Game of the Year awards at the American International Toy Fair, the industry’s annual trade... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
analyses, specifically, to compute net present value (NPV) internal rate of return (IRR) and payback period. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207121 Vivaldi Food Concepts—The Start-up of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
screening ability since the returns were higher than those that earned from investing in analysts' top stock picks that were not selected by the committee. Finally, we find that abnormal announcement returns and trading volume at the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
also show that the internal control provisions of section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley make royalty arrangements based on self-reporting more attractive. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-100.pdf Toward a Theory of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
mid-1950s, U.S. Steel had produced sixteen films, including titles such as Steel: Man’s Servant and The Making and Shaping of Steel . Seen by millions of Americans in movie theatres, educational institutions, and trade and industrial... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
nations' poor economic management, international financial contagion, close "crony" relations between local politicians and capitalists? This case examines how the crisis erupted in Thailand and spread in a chain of events that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17
founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
influence them. More specifically, this approach steers attention away from the political processes whereby administrative policies are formed and implemented . . . . These difficulties are compounded by the typical simplifying device of ignoring the View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
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Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
International Trade at the U.S. Small Business Administration; Steven Wolfe Pereira, CEO of Alpha & Company and former executive at Televisa Univision; and Liz Montaño (MBA 2009), Chief Operating Officer at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley