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  • July – August 1985
  • Article

Benevolent Cartels

By: Joseph L. Bower and Eric A. K. Rhenman
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  • 03 Oct 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Cartels and Competition: Neither Markets nor Hierarchies

Keywords: by Jeffrey Fear
  • Article

Social Status, Entry and Predation: The Case of British Shipping Cartels 1879-1929

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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

U.S. Antitrust Law and Policy in Historical Perspective

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
The key pieces of antitrust legislation in the United States—the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and the Clayton Act of 1914—contain broad language that has afforded the courts wide latitude in interpreting and enforcing the law. This article chronicles the judiciary’s... View Details
Keywords: Antitrust; Trusts; Restraint Of Trade; Merger; Cartel; New Deal; Harvard School; Chicago School Of Law And Economics; Post-Chicago; Law; Competition; Policy; Vertical Integration; Horizontal Integration; Acquisition
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  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

  Working PapersCartels and Competition: Neither Markets nor Hierarchies Author:Jeffrey Fear Abstract This article provides an overview on the rise and fall of cartels since the late 19th century when the modern View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2000 (Revised September 2002)
  • Case

Forever: De Beers and U.S. Antitrust Law

By: Debora L. Spar and Jennifer Burns
For over a century, the international diamond market has been dominated by one of the most successful cartels on earth. Run by the legendary De Beers Corp., the cartel has managed to keep diamond prices increasing and to prevent the defection that dooms most other... View Details
Keywords: Lawfulness; Monopoly; Luxury; Business and Government Relations; Consumer Products Industry; Mining Industry; Africa; United States
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  • May 2004 (Revised April 2005)
  • Case

United States Army

By: Rajiv Lal and Laura Coleman
After three months of close collaboration, the Leo Burnett USA/Worldwide agency and partner Cartel and Images advertising/creative team were poised to unveil to senior Army officials at the Pentagon their replacement to the "Be All You Can Be" campaign to help increase... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Decisions; Globalization; Recruitment; Management Teams; Marketing Strategy; United States
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  • August 2006 (Revised July 2008)
  • Case

Rwanda and the Thousand Hills Coffee Co.: Breaking New Grounds

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Michelle McDonald
Examines the strategies of a Boston-based start-up to market Rwandan coffee. Describes the history of the coffee industry, the era of cartelization and the International Coffee Agreement, and the subsequent collapse in producer prices after 1989. Also describes the... View Details
Keywords: History; Marketing Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Food and Beverage Industry; Rwanda; Boston
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  • Research Summary

Competition and Collusion in Ocean Shipping

The liner shipping industry has been dominated by cartels since the late 19th century. Rich Sicotte's research builds on his 1997 Ph.D. thesis and employs analytical tools of industrial organization and economic history. He is examining the sources of variation in... View Details
  • November 2003 (Revised September 2016)
  • Case

Creating Global Oil, 1900-1935

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Daniel Wadhwani
Taught in the elective MBA course entitled The Evolution of Global Business. Examines the development of an international cartel in the oil industry in the 1920s and 1930s. Focuses on the decisions and actions of the leading multinational oil companies—particularly... View Details
Keywords: History; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Alliances; Cooperation; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry
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  • July 2008 (Revised June 2012)
  • Case

Corruption in Germany

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella and Jonathan Schlefer
Why do managers become corrupt? Does corruption ever pay? When do friendly relations cross into bribery? How can CEOs manage and prevent outbreaks of corruption? These and other questions are raised by three short case studies of corruption in Germany: at the global... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Law; Managerial Roles; Practice; Conflict of Interests; Germany
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  • Research Summary

Professor Hiatt’s research is aimed at discovering how institutional factors can affect sector growth and technology development and adoption by mediating and moderating uncertainty. His work encompasses two related research questions:

1) How can... View Details

  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

expansion of the world economy prompted a recovery in the growth rate of world FDI. The system of international cartels was dismantled. By 1960 the world stock of FDI had reached $60 billion. By 1980 it was over $500 billion. These were... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

that pays little attention to the well-being of society overall. The vitamin cartel provides another. Compare this type of thinking to initiatives that are designed to create value. You might remember when Nike built a training center in... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 13 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 13

Power: Norway and International Cartels and Trusts, 1919-1939 Authors:Pal Thonstad Sandvik and Espen Storli Publication:Scandinavian Economic History Review 59, no. 3 (2011) Abstract The article examines the relationship between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

operations. We finance these industries with private capital, set national and local regulations, encourage competition and discourage cartels in order to lower prices and increase quality (i.e., driving safety up and environmental impact... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

doctors and hospitals to remove the cartel and guild aspects of medicine and put more of the purse strings directly into the consumers' hands " Addressing incentives, Tom Dolembo suggested that "We should pay doctors well who... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 20 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

Co.: Breaking New Grounds Harvard Business School Case 807-004 Examines the strategies of a Boston-based start-up to market Rwandan coffee. Describes the history of the coffee industry, the era of cartelization and the International... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

the Toyota Production System or cartels in the steel industry. That was one of the real differences in teaching MBAs; part of my job was to try to tap the wealth of their collective experience and knowledge so that they could, in fact,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

ever loses a job. Some Japanese attribute this mentality to Japan's agrarian history. Farmers all help each other. This mentality was reflected in a variety of policy areas. There is a lax antitrust policy, for instance, which leads to informal cartels. Some View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

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