In May 2011, Chairman Chen Yuan of the China Development Bank (CDB) was thinking back on CDB's financing of a major project between Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Brazil's state-owned oil and gas producer and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), one of China's largest oil...

CHS - the largest farm cooperative in the US - was planning its 2020 vision statement and the role the cooperative should play in the food system. Learning Objective: Farm Cooperative Long Range Planning

In November 2010, WikiLeaks began releasing the first of hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables that it had obtained. Among the thousands of cables published by early 2011, were several that shed light on Royal Dutch Shell's operations in Nigeria and its relationship with the Nigerian...

An HBS student is asked by his employer to misrepresent himself during the course of his summer internship in order to obtain data from industry competitors. Learning Objective: Demonstration of an ethical dilemma faced by an HBS student during summer employment and how it was resolved

In October of 2010, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) was unable to extricate itself from a year long recall crisis that had subjected the firm to criticism from Congress and regulators, resulted in the resignation of one of the firm's most senior officers, and cost hundreds of millions of dollars from...

This technical note explains how agricultural cooperatives are structured and financed, as well as how they form partnerships with one another and other elements of the food system.Learning Objective: The role of farm cooperatives in the global food system