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The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring View Details
- June 2012 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Marc Rich and Global Commodity Trading
By: Geoffrey Jones and Espen Storli
Examines the career of Marc Rich, the world's leading commodity trader before his criminal indictment in the United States in 1983. The case surveys the historical growth of commodity trading, especially in metals, from the late nineteenth century, and its evolving... View Details
Keywords: Commodity Market; Natural Resources; Metals and Minerals; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Mining Industry; Africa; Europe; Middle East; North and Central America; Israel; South Africa; Iran
Jones, Geoffrey, and Espen Storli. "Marc Rich and Global Commodity Trading." Harvard Business School Case 813-020, June 2012. (Revised December 2017.)
- February 2010 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool
By: Mukti Khaire and Kathleen L. McGinn
The case is about the decision to convert a not-for-profit organization into a for-profit company. SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (STFC), which is part of a larger non-profit organization—the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)—works to improve the livelihoods of... View Details
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; For-Profit Firms; Gender; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Arts; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; India
Khaire, Mukti, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool." Harvard Business School Case 810-044, February 2010. (Revised June 2011.)
- July 2021
- Supplement
Pershing Square's Pandemic Trade (D)
By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira and Dean Xu
Siriwardane, Emil N., Luis M. Viceira, and Dean Xu. "Pershing Square's Pandemic Trade (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 222-010, July 2021.
- July 2021
- Supplement
Pershing Square's Pandemic Trade (C)
By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira and Dean Xu
Siriwardane, Emil N., Luis M. Viceira, and Dean Xu. "Pershing Square's Pandemic Trade (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 222-009, July 2021.
- October 2003 (Revised January 2004)
- Background Note
Online Securities Trading in Japan
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Jamie Ladge, Haruki Umezawa and Masako Egawa
Provides an overview of the Japanese securities industry and discusses how the online trading/brokerage industry grew as a result of deregulation of financial markets and penetration of the Internet in Japan. Describes major players in the online industry--Matsui... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Financial Markets; Business Strategy; Financial Instruments; Globalized Markets and Industries; Internet and the Web; Japan
Applegate, Lynda M., Jamie Ladge, Haruki Umezawa, and Masako Egawa. "Online Securities Trading in Japan." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-054, October 2003. (Revised January 2004.)
- 2007
- Working Paper
The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data
By: Laura Alfaro and Faisal Ahmed
We use highly disaggregated data on trade in capital goods to study differences in the price of capital across countries. This strategy is motivated by the fact that most countries import the bulk of machinery equipment from a small number of industrialized countries.... View Details
Alfaro, Laura, and Faisal Ahmed. "The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-073, April 2007. (Revised March 2010.)
- 10 Apr 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Trade Secrets Protection and Antitakeover Provisions
Keywords: by Aiyesha Dey and Joshua White
- January 2015 (Revised June 2015)
- Supplement
The FLV Capital Trading Desk (B)
By: Samuel G. Hanson
Hanson, Samuel G. "The FLV Capital Trading Desk (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 215-045, January 2015. (Revised June 2015.)
- July 1986
- Case
Nicaragua and the U.S. Trade Embargo
By: James E. Austin
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Policy; International Relations; Nicaragua; United States
Austin, James E. "Nicaragua and the U.S. Trade Embargo." Harvard Business School Case 387-027, July 1986.
- 2014
- Case
Tommy Koh and the United States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement (B)
By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
This case details the efforts of Singapore Ambassador-At-Large Tommy Koh to forge a free trade agreement between Singapore and the United States following both nations' support for the initiation of negotiations on a USSFTA. Examining the various barriers and fronts of... View Details
Sebenius, James K., and Laurence A. Green. "Tommy Koh and the United States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement (B)." Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Case, 2014.
- October 2007 (Revised November 2007)
- Case
Barclays Global Investors and Exchange Traded Funds
By: Luis M. Viceira and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Provides an overview of the Exchange Traded Funds (EFT) industry and highlights the leadership role that Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has played in this developing asset class. BGI launched its first ETFs under the iShares brand name in 2000, and by mid-2007 BGI was... View Details
Keywords: History; Venture Capital; Asset Management; Stocks; Investment Funds; Leading Change; Expansion; Competitive Strategy; Capital Markets; Global Strategy; Financial Strategy; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Asia; Europe
Viceira, Luis M., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Barclays Global Investors and Exchange Traded Funds." Harvard Business School Case 208-033, October 2007. (Revised November 2007.)
- April 1983 (Revised December 1984)
- Background Note
Note on Free Trade and Protectionism
By: David B. Yoffie
Keywords: Trade
Yoffie, David B. "Note on Free Trade and Protectionism." Harvard Business School Background Note 383-174, April 1983. (Revised December 1984.)
- March–April 1990
- Article
The Costly Bargain of Trade Promotion
By: R. D. Buzzell, J. A. Quelch and W. J. Salmon
Keywords: Trade
Buzzell, R. D., J. A. Quelch, and W. J. Salmon. "The Costly Bargain of Trade Promotion." Harvard Business Review 68, no. 2 (March–April 1990): 141–149.
- 05 Oct 2015
- News
Marcus Jadotte, Karen Gordon Mills on Trade Opportunities
- Article
Money and the Terms of Trade
By: J. J. Rotemberg
Rotemberg, J. J. "Money and the Terms of Trade." Journal of International Economics 19, nos. 1-2 (August 1985): 141–160.
- 2014
- Case
Tommy Koh and the United States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
The efforts of Singapore Ambassador-At-Large Tommy Koh to negotiate the United States-Singapore Free Trade agreement are explored with an in-depth focus on Koh's management of various fronts of a multiparty negotiation over a sustained period. After briefly describing... View Details
Sebenius, James K., and Laurence A. Green. "Tommy Koh and the United States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement (A)." Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Case, 2014.
- 28 May 2009
- News
The fragile web of foreign trade
- April 1983 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Trade In Services and American Express
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and David B. Yoffie. "Trade In Services and American Express." Harvard Business School Case 383-114, April 1983. (Revised June 1993.)
- 1992
- Chapter
Arbitrage, Information Theft, and Insider Trading
By: Michael Jensen
Jensen, Michael. "Arbitrage, Information Theft, and Insider Trading." In New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, edited by Peter Newman, Murray Milgate, and John Eatwell. London: Macmillan Press, 1992. (Earlier version, Arbitrage, Information Theft, and the Mistaken Attack On Insider Trading, published in "Chief Financial Officer U.S.A.", John Thackray, ed. (Sterling Publications, London: 1988), pp. 114-115.)