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  • June 1980 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

Southwest Lumber Distributors

By: David E. Bell
Concerns a lumber wholesaler who has been asked to give a forward price commitment. The market price has been volatile and the type of wood is different from that traded on the futures market. The question is: What to do about customer's request? View Details
Keywords: Customers; Markets; Price; Forest Products Industry
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  • December 2005 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Vincent Marie Dessain, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Anders Sjoman
The Dutch "Verenigde Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer Cooperative" (VBA) was on of the world's largest flower exchanges. Around 6,300 flower growers, one half of them located in the Netherlands, used the auction to sell cut flowers and plants to more than 1,000 wholesalers. In... View Details
Keywords: Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Trade; Market Entry and Exit; Financial Markets; Segmentation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Netherlands
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Estimating Productivity in the Presence of Spillovers: Firm-Level Evidence from the U.S. Production Network

By: Ebehi Iyoha
This paper examines the extent to which productivity gains are transmitted across U.S. firms through buyer-supplier relationships. Many empirical studies measure firm-to-firm spillovers using firm-level productivity estimates derived from control function approaches.... View Details
Keywords: Supply and Industry; Partners and Partnerships; Production
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  • 2011
  • Chapter

Innovations in Governance

By: Raymond Fisman and Eric Werker
In this paper we explore the innovations in governance that have promoted investment and growth. Some policymakers have tinkered with their country's institutions, some have undertaken wholesale changes, while others have attempted to influence the rules in other... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Investment; Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Innovation and Invention
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  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

Business School Supplement 707-020 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707020 Global Climate Change and Emissions Trading Harvard Business School Case 707-015... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

the rewards were great. This initial success prompted Enron to extrapolate its business model to other markets. In 1994, Enron officials started trading wholesale electricity after Congress deregulated the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

to shareholders. So any attempt to cut labor expense could well have provoked a public backlash—especially since at the time the company's home city of Schweinfurt had an unemployment rate of 16 percent. For publicly traded companies, the... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

A favorite topic of historians and palindrome fans alike, the Panama Canal has perpetually changed the international trade business. In their new book, The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • 22 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

pineboards and department stores to follow these guidelines or face being blacklisted. At one meeting, Gleason confronted a wholesaler who was selling below cost. She was initially dismissed as being “hysterical,” as View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

2018 New York: Cambridge University Press American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890–1940 By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

possible alliances and partnerships); manufacturers (for manufacturing set-top boxes); non-U.S. licensees; and wholesale and retail distributors (for sales). With his promising venture running on fumes, Perlman's next obvious negotiation... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 07 Dec 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

store customers or trading them to urban wholesalers and jobbers for needed supplies. Bartering reduced storekeepers' dependence on currency. It also created informal distribution networks for locally... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
  • 24 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 24

their country's institutions, some have undertaken wholesale changes, while others have attempted to influence the rules in other countries. We survey past attempts at governance innovation, from private governance in India's industrial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

the conditions that enable moral insight and important practical implications. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54871 Harvard Business School Case 318-143 Renegotiating NAFTA January 1, 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of the North... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

support for the hypothesis that rising high-frequency turbulence in the sales of large publicly traded U.S. firms over the past three decades has raised their workers' high-frequency wage volatility. The evidence comes from two datasets:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

option values on volatility. When an investor trades an option, they are essentially trading volatility. Therefore, much of the focus in this lesson is on forecasting volatility. Students are able to use two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

community. Chile is in better shape, but has also undergone traumatic ups and down and is now challenged to grow as its major trading partner, China, slows its growth. What went wrong? A new edited volume by Geoffrey Jones and Andrea... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

a quandary: Should they patent inventions coming out of their manufacturing process development work, should they keep them as trade secrets, or should they publish them so that they would go into the public domain and nobody else could... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale dollar funding, while raising more of their euro funding through insured retail deposits, the shock leads to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. We study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with two well-known mechanisms: learning from prices and speculation (buying for resale). With... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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