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- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
percent from 6.9 billion today. Implicit in the cross-sector gathering was this: Unprecedented demand on the planet's resources requires new solutions and a heavy reliance on strong public-private partnerships. Clean water, for example, is already such a scarce View Details
- 18 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Marketing After the Recession
recession has not been kind to marketers. In many multinationals, the positive financial impacts of recession-busting marketing plans have been obliterated by commodity price volatility and weaker-than-expected overseas earnings due to...
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- August 2017 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Flex Hungary: Launching Production (A)
By: Willy Shih
This case examines design choices in the construction of flow lines. Flow lines are a popular way of arranging production because they are simple and inherently efficient. Equipment or workstations are arranged according to the sequence of steps in which a product is...
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Keywords:
Manufacturing;
Line-balancing;
Flow Line;
Conveyor-paced Line;
Consumer Goods;
Consumer Products;
Production Management;
Production Planning;
Production Scheduling;
Operations;
Production;
Management;
Supply Chain;
Design;
Analysis;
Goods and Commodities;
Consumer Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
European Union
Shih, Willy. "Flex Hungary: Launching Production (A)." Harvard Business School Case 618-002, August 2017. (Revised March 2020.)
- February 1969
- Article
Test of a Product Cycle Model of International Trade: U.S. Exports of Consumer Durables
By: Louis T Wells Jr
Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Test of a Product Cycle Model of International Trade: U.S. Exports of Consumer Durables." Quarterly Journal of Economics 83, no. 1 (February 1969): 152–62. (Also reprinted in Wells, The Product Life Cycle and International Trade.)
- 23 Mar 2016
- News
Building a Biotech Business from Farmed Fish
plasma. “Now, what could you create out of that? So many medical products, which really could make a difference. “The thing that we’re trying to do is, on the margins, take a commodity business—growing salmon—and interact with...
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- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
investments from overlapping funds, left the Berkshire team in a difficult situation. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-034 Fair Value Accounting Controversy at Noble Group (A) Noble Group was a large...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Targeted Price Controls on Supermarket Products
- December 2013
- Case
Grupo Beta San Miguel
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he considers whether BSM should bid on one of the state-owned sugar mills slated for...
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Keywords:
Mexico;
Jose Pinto;
Beta San Miguel;
Polycrom;
Sugar;
World Sugar Trade;
NAFTA;
Strategy;
Trade;
Futures and Commodity Futures;
Agribusiness;
Price;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Mexico;
United States;
North America
Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Grupo Beta San Miguel." Harvard Business School Case 514-005, December 2013.
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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 Markets PgUp/PgDn Green Moves up and down through...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
globalization of medical services? Q&A with Professor Tarun Khanna. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5814.html. When Your Product Becomes a Commodity Like death and taxes, commoditization of your products is a given. Professor John Quelch...
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- March 2021
- Article
Targeted Price Controls on Supermarket Products
By: Alberto Cavallo and Diego Aparicio
We study the impact of targeted price controls for supermarket products in Argentina from 2007 to 2015. Using web scraping, we collected daily prices for controlled and non-controlled goods and measured the differential effects on inflation, product availability, and...
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Keywords:
Prices;
Controls;
Price Dispersion;
Economics;
Price;
Cost Management;
Goods and Commodities;
Retail Industry;
Argentina
Cavallo, Alberto, and Diego Aparicio. "Targeted Price Controls on Supermarket Products." Review of Economics and Statistics 103, no. 1 (March 2021): 60–71.
- 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...
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Meulbroek, Lisa K. "Extracting Information from the Futures and Forwards Markets: The Relation between Spot Prices, Forward Prices and Expected Future Spot Prices." Harvard Business School Background Note 201-109, March 2001.
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Taiwan
keyword and geography keywords in search (ex: commodities Taiwan). Search tips: use concise keywords. Go to "Analysis" section for full industry reports; Go to "Consumers" section to brows reports on...
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- Web
Introduction - The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
ideology and addressed Davenport’s concern that business school students tended “to look upon labor as a commodity and to ignore the human relations involved.” Among the collection’s holdings were the kinds of photographs publicity...
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- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
globalized world. During the late nineteenth century both countries flourished as major exporters of commodities to the industrialized nations in North America and Europe. Argentina did so well that it became one of the richest countries...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
10,000 bushels of corn annually. For the farmers, MME offers a potential hedge against the volatility of commodity prices and the hope of a more stable future for their children. "This is also a fascinating entrepreneurial...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
2003, the group fans out to test the idea with some 2,500 farmers in the area; after this outreach, MME has 729 members willing to make the minimum investment of $20,000 and 10,000 bushels of corn annually. For the farmers, MME offers a potential hedge against the...
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- August 1995 (Revised October 1996)
- Case
Futures on the Mexican Peso
By: Kenneth A. Froot, Matthew McBrady and Mark Seasholes
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange needs to decide how to design, and whether and when to introduce, a futures contract on the Mexican peso.
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Keywords:
Exchange Rates;
Money Markets;
Futures Market;
Country Analysis;
International Finance;
Financial Markets;
Futures and Commodity Futures;
Financial Services Industry;
Chicago;
Mexico
Froot, Kenneth A., Matthew McBrady, and Mark Seasholes. "Futures on the Mexican Peso." Harvard Business School Case 296-004, August 1995. (Revised October 1996.)
- Web
A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877 Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade...
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Mariama Keita
cocoa. One of the cases she has found especially relevant involved an Indian company that helps farmers understand worldwide commodities pricing. "Greater information gave them greater power," Mariama says. "The farmers...
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