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14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

academic psychologists, Harvard Business School professors, directors of organizations, and government officials. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51447 Winter 2017 Oxford Review of Economic Policy The View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2018
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Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

startup is initially focusing on the freely tradable global market for copper, zinc, lead, gold, and silver concentrates—estimated to be around $50 billion—which excludes companies that process their own concentrates or those controlled... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

27 Oct 2014
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The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

another 30 years," says Lurtz, the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School. "How do you build these institutions that you need for market agriculture in a place where maybe there are laws on the books, but there's not much... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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Nicole Ledoux

finance. She started her career in investment management at Putnam Investments as a fixed income quantitative analyst. Post-HBS, she worked at Constellation Energy in London in portfolio management, where she co-managed a 400MM physical View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Investment Management; Financial Services (All)

August 2004
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Auctions of Homogeneous Goods with Increasing Returns: Experimental Comparison of Alternative "Dutch" Auctions

By: Elena Katok and A. E. Roth

Keywords: Auctions; Goods and Commodities; Profit

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Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

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Bloomberg: keyboard

windows; double click on a panel to resize screen. PFD Yellow Preferred Shares EQUITY Yellow Equity Shares CMDTY Yellow Commodity Markets INDEX Yellow Indexes CRNCY Yellow Currency View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Taiwan

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Taipei to help me with FIELD Global Immersion? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

bond markets, commodity markets, and derivatives markets. In fact, so did all asset classes — not to mention those that benefit when bonuses are big, from vintage Bordeaux to luxury yachts. But these boom years were also misery years,... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Bloomberg Financial data on equities, indices, currencies, commodities and futures. Read More Provides company profiles and financial statements, analysts' forecasts, worldwide financial market news, audio... View Details

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Consumer Behavior, Retailer Power and Performance in Consumer Goods Industries

By: M. E. Porter

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Performance; Goods and Commodities; Supply and Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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September 2001 (Revised June 2004)
Case

Cafe de Colombia

By: Rohit Deshpande and Alexandra de Royere

Discusses sustaining brand equity after a highly successful commodity-product branding ad campaign. View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Brands and Branding; Advertising Campaigns; Product; Goods and Commodities; Colombia

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20 Apr 2010
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Working Papers Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910) Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract The literature on the rubber boom applied a dependendist view of rubber production in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 May 2018
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Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts

e-commerce world is a brutal competitive environment,” says Harvard Business School marketing professor Thales Teixeira. “One of the biggest levers retailers have at their disposal to bring in customers is price.” More discounts, however,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

September 1997
Case

Tri Valley Growers: A New Age Co-op

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Mollie H. Carter

Tri Valley Growers is a dominant co-operative in its industry and, yet, still suffers from poor returns. The board of directors worked with the new CEO to change the product, market, and financing focus of the co-op to assure a long and profitable future for its... View Details

Keywords: Capital; Profit; Goods and Commodities; Product Marketing; Cooperative Ownership

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September 1984 (Revised May 1985)
Teaching Note

Federated Industries (A) TN

By: Robert J. Dolan

Teaching Note for (9-585-104). View Details

Keywords: Supply and Industry; Market Entry and Exit; Price; Goods and Commodities; Competition; Consumer Products Industry; United States

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08 Mar 2016
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Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

history that year was Dr. Andrea Lluch, from Argentina. This was the origins of a research program and conference series which led to this collaborative volume, and the Creating Emerging Markets oral history project, which began with... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

June 2024 (Revised October 2024)
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Equifruit

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan and Annelena Lobb

Jennie Coleman, president of Fairtrade banana company Equifruit, considered how best to position her firm and brand to increase sales of Fairtrade bananas in the U.S. and Canada. She saw her biggest challenge as convincing retailers that consumers would be OK spending... View Details