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  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

Johnson, and Linnea MeyerHarvard Business School Case 210-021 What role does trade finance play in facilitating global supply chain management? Richard S. Elman, founder and CEO of Noble Group Ltd., a global View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

production, foreign investment, and trade of both final and intermediate goods by multinational corporations. Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects host economies. This paper reviews the main... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2004 (Revised February 2005)
  • Case

Exporting Spanish Olive Oil to the U.S. Market

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Hal Hogan and Miguel Angel Llano Irusta
Spain is the largest olive oil producer, yet it sells much of its product to Italy, where it is repackaged as Italian olive oil. The decision maker in the case wants to develop Spain as the olive oil leader not just in production but in quality and value added. He... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Trade; Goods and Commodities; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Brands and Branding; Decisions; Customization and Personalization; Product Design; Product Development; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain; United States; Italy
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  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

is that they were taken from the accounts of customers trading in commodity futures and used in other areas of the firm; less is known about how it happened. The case describes MF Global's operating model,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

Can Florida Orange Growers Survive Globalization?

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan
Florida Citrus Department has to deal with increasing competition from Brazil. What position should the industry take on its existing tariff? Who benefits? Who loses? View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Trade; Price; Globalized Markets and Industries; Goods and Commodities; Competition; Competitive Strategy
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  • 05 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

among many consumers than any political party, trade union, church, or mosque. Indeed, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz sought to make his coffee shops the "third place" in our lives, after home and work. Marketing is an... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising
  • 06 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

companies, and what can they do to protect themselves? Shih: Companies need to understand their vulnerabilities. If you are a company that uses tools with this kind of high embodiment of know-how and you can’t protect complimentary assets like recipes or View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics
  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

creation because of three reasons. First, the art itself (the "product" so to speak) was produced since the late 1940s in India although it had not been systematically traded in a sustained manner in international art markets... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

Commodity Trading Jones, Geoffrey, and Espen StorliHarvard Business School Case 813-020 Examines the career of Marc Rich, the world's leading commodity trader before his... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

understanding how corporations manage the symbolic use of information and how corporate behavior is influenced by civil society scrutiny embedded in institutional processes. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1836472 Colonial Institutions, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2006
  • Op-Ed

Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

behavior could possibly arise, lie many examples of highly innovative management: the successful intermediation of the natural gas market, the "gas bank" created by Jeff Skilling, the development of standardized commodity... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
  • 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
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

vulnerable to superior service alternatives. Along the way, we also show that firms trade off price and service quality and that when the incumbent offers relatively low service quality in a local market, it is susceptible to the entry or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

the world's largest commodities exchange, futures and options on futures contracts, history, regulation, and the strategic choices the company faced. CME Group was formed from the oldest and most well-known exchanges in the world. Traders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Dr. Lurtz researches the history of agricultural economies in Latin America. She has a particular interest in export agriculture and attendant state- and locally-driven modernization projects. Her current work looks to the coffee economy of southern Mexico in the 19th... View Details
Keywords: Coffee Production; Institutions; Property Rights; Labor History; Credit; Modernization; Development Economics; Rural Scope; Trade; Food; Agribusiness; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Economies and Regions; Goods and Commodities; History; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

firms. They also affect trading signal classifications, back-testing inferences, track records of individual analysts, and models of analysts' career outcomes in the three years following the changes. Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111016-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111029-PDF-ENG Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A) Clayton S. Rose and David LaneHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

expenditures, to manage earnings to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product, which can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract Most previous research tests market efficiency using average abnormal trading profits on dynamic trading strategies and typically rejects the joint... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

In the first wave of globalization, MNEs sought access to resources, and governments frequently gave them exclusive contracts and favorable deals in order to build businesses. The major management challenge was to overcome logistical challenges to enable minerals and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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