Question: Investment Linked to Commodity Futures (Harvard Business School Case 293017-PDF-ENG). The case examines an investment linked to an index of commodity futures prices and explores how the index is constructed, how commodity futures behave, and what the portfolio impacts of such an investment might be.
Futures on the Mexican Peso (Harvard Business School Case 296004-PDFENG). The case considers the issues that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange faces regarding how to design, and whether and when to introduce, a futures contract on the Mexican peso.
Alcoma: The Strategic Use of Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice Futures (Harvard Business School Case 595029-PDF-ENG). The case explores price risk management in the orange juice industry when an increase in orange tree production led to a surplus production of orange juice.