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- January 2012 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
Dow Chemical: Innovating for Sustainability
Dow Chemical is one of the few major American industrial corporations that was founded in the late 19th century that is still in existence. From its origins producing bromine out of the brine underneath Midland, Michigan, the company has evolved from a diversified...
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Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Shelley Xin Li. "Dow Chemical: Innovating for Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 112-064, January 2012. (Revised June 2013.)
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FactSet | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Responsibility Stock Prices Fixed Income Options & Futures Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds & Pensions Indexes Financial Data Platforms & Tools Exchange Rates & Interest Rates Commodities General Industry Information Mergers & Acquisitions...
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- 19 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice
- Research Summary
Institutional influences on the firm: cross-country comparisons
A third stream of work examines the influence of country institutions on firms in a cross-country comparative context. In a paper co-authored with Jordan Siegel (published in Management Science in 2009), we employed a quasi-natural experiment: a...
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- 2017
- Working Paper
International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective
By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper explores long-run patterns in the strategies of international business in developing countries. There was a massive wave of Western multinational investment in the developing world during the first wave of globalization before the 1920s. The...
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Multinational Firms and Management;
Developing Countries and Economies;
History;
Emerging Markets;
Problems and Challenges
Jones, Geoffrey. "International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-020, September 2017.
- 2008
- Working Paper
An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions
By: Craig James Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh
Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the reduction of discretionary expenditures, to manage earnings to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used... View Details
Keywords:
Performance Expectations;
Earnings Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Financial Reporting;
Brands and Branding;
Food and Beverage Industry
Chapman, Craig James, and Thomas J. Steenburgh. "An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-073, February 2008. (Revised February 2009, December 2009, June 2010, July 2010.)
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
sugar commodity market. He lived in China and the United States with his wife and was active in mentoring young people who showed talent in business. Sun Hung Kai & Co. Foundation Fellowship The Sun Hung Kai & Co. Foundation Fellowship...
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- 16 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases
retail price points. Weaker brands risk private label and generic substitution. Clearly, not all marketers are equally affected by price inflation. Commodities like gasoline, where the manufacturer adds little value before the product...
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by John Quelch
- 29 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?
Why do outlet stores exist? The answer may seem obvious to most shoppers—they are places where companies get rid of factory seconds or outdated merchandise at fire-sale prices. Read: bargains, bargains, bargains. And indeed, that may have been the case when the stores...
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Hedge Funds | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Futures Industry /citations/guide-to-the-language-of-the-futures-industry Many of the terms included in this glossary by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are used in the hedge fund sector. 55 1399 Guide to the Language of the...
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
February 2022. Before the full-scale invasion, HarvEast managed 127,000 hectares (ha) of farmland in Ukraine and generated about $100 million in revenue from three businesses: commodity crops, seeds, and horticulture. Due to Russia’s war...
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Global Financial Data | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
rates from 1590, interest rates from 1700, commodities from 1500, and inflation from 1264. Includes US daily stock price 1957- present and monthly prices 1790's to 1956. UK stocks, data prices from mid-1600's to 1985.Data available as...
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- 17 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American...
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Historical Data Visualization - Business History
Politics & Economics Adult Literacy Rates Trends Over Time Corporations Apollo Hospitals Historical Maps Commodities Apples, Bananas, Oranges, and Dates (1907) Trends Over Time Corporations Arçelik Corporation (Koç Group) Trends Over Time...
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- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
These resources are vast and diverse, ranging from tax dollars and the time of government bureaucrats and officials to national resources such as forests and mineral deposits. All these commodities are finite, and all have been squandered...
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Financial Markets | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Guides Financial Markets Financial Markets Financial markets concern the trading of securities and commodities in a prescribed market and its associated data and statistics. This resource guide provides sources with financial market...
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Emerging Markets | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
sell-side equity research. Go To Database Need a Refinitiv Workspace overview? Check out our multimedia learning module, Learn with Baker Library - Refinitiv Introduction. Commodities Data DATA Bloomberg...
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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
processing, and marketing of commodities. By 1980 manufacturing FDI was larger than the natural resource and service sectors combined. In services, while transport and utility investments were no longer important, from the 1960s multinational banks, trading companies,...
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by Geoffrey Jones
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
and Commodities (6) Governance Compliance (4) Governance Controls (73) Governance (260) Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms (69) Governing and Advisory Boards (19) Government Administration (16) Government Legislation (16)...
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