Publications

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

Web

Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

Podcast Podcast Harvard Business School Professors Bill Kerr and Joe Fuller talk to leaders grappling with the forces reshaping the nature of work. Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon More Ways to Listen iHeartRadio Player.fm Audacy Castbox Pocket Casts 16 Jul 2025 Managing... View Details

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

appears to reflect a fundamental shift in the innovative fecundity in the domestic economy. The breadth of technology appears wider today than it ever has been before. The greater rate of intellectual innovation provides fertile ground for View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

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

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

entitled "The Future of MBA Education," and Srikant and I were responsible for preparing and leading it. Our initial goal was simply to gather enough material to conduct a day-long conversation with our faculty drawing on interviews with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

November 2024
Case

Ather Energy: The Future of Mobility

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Kannan Srinivasan and Malini Sen

Ather Energy, India’s third-largest electric scooter maker by volume, was founded in 2013. Five years later, the start-up launched its first electric scooter, Ather 450, which was powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), to navigate... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

The Future of Stem Cells

stem-cell R&D will almost certainly fade,” explains HBS professor Debora Spar, “because determined would-be buyers and sellers will eventually constitute a market of their own, either by circumventing the law or by pushing the state to relax its restrictions. The View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

July 2024
Teaching Plan

ECOALF: Fashion for the Future

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio and Sara Coronel Rodriguez

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 524-057. View Details

August 2021 (Revised May 2022)
Background Note

Oil: History, Present and Future

By: Jurgen Weiss

This background note is intended to provide context for a discussion of the strategies for big integrated oil companies in light of both oil’s current role in the global energy system and the uncertainty about changes going forward. View Details

Keywords: Oil; Energy Markets; Oil Prices; Oil Companies; Decarbonization; Non-Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries

August 2017 (Revised January 2023)
Case

Enel: The Future of Energy

By: Mark R. Kramer and Bhanuteja Nadella

Enel has transformed from the Italian state-owned energy monopoly into a global leader in renewable energy and shared value creation. Through its open innovation model, the company has catapulted to the cutting edge of electric mobility and distributed power... View Details

Keywords: Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Energy Industry

Jun 2010
Conference Presentation

Imagining the Future of Leadership

By: Scott Snook

Keywords: Leadership

March 2012
Class Lecture

The Future of Private Equity

By: Josh Lerner