Unit Demand - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2014
News

Groundswells

strengthened residential life and recognized the growing importance of interdisciplinary faculty research. EX ED’S SPACE RACE In large part, the growing space demands of HBS Executive Education programs drove campus projects in the late... View Details

Keywords: George F. Baker III; Read Estate Development

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

where we have both a global slowdown and the remarkable economic uncertainty following the terrorist attacks in the United States, we need to pay attention, I think without question, to the short term as well as to the long term. Many of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jan 2011
News

Peter Harf, MBA 1974

donor. Eventually, she received a transplant, after Harf and his friends had started to frantically recruit potential bone marrow donors all over Germany. On her deathbed, Mechtild demanded that Harf stay committed to the fight against... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

unit does not advocate one style of organization over another, Teresa M. Amabile, MBA Class of 1954 Professor of Business Administration, notes that "the current economic environment demands that all... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

moved its chief technical officer from the United States to China. Because most of its large customers are now in China, Taiwan, and South Korea, it makes sense for the company to do its research close to the factories that use its... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

The social sector is big business. In the United States alone some 1.5 million nonprofits and other social ventures have combined revenues of $700 billion and control assets valued at $2 trillion—a seemingly substantial arsenal to tackle... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2002
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

7 percent, with lots of appreciation on top of that. Do you have concerns about Japanlike deflation in the United States? Some fear that with a very low inflation rate of 1.5 percent, the United States is in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2005
News

Full Circle

hospital with a staff of forty) grows and demands a more sophisticated understanding of finance and managerial issues. “All of the things I turned away from to become skilled as a surgeon are becoming more important,” he observes. “As the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; veterinary; MBA applicable; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2010
News

Alumni Books

You Want by Tamara Erickson (MBA ’78) (Harvard Business Press) Erickson shows how members of Generation X — the 30–45 age cohort sandwiched between Boomers (who refuse to retire) and Gen Ys (with their relentless confidence and demands... View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

business backstage. This book provides an overview of both the product on stage and the industry that makes it possible. While the industry’s product has unique supply and demand characteristics, it is still an industry, with economic... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire

conditions and often with extraordinary and unheralded courage -- to fulfill the mission they have been given by the President and the American people as the nation's first line of defense. When the safety of the United States or its... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Dec 2002
News

Books

Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Performance, Paine has condensed twenty years of research and teaching in the oftenmaligned field of business ethics to argue that companies can — indeed must — be both ethical and profitable.... View Details

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

unite partners' objectives for creating a flexible supply chain; benchmark performance against other retailers; and evaluate and manage new technologies. Raman and Fisher provide specific, detailed metrics and techniques that can be used... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

10 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 10

intermediary's technology. We develop a model to show that the intermediary would want to restrict sellers from charging buyers more for transactions it intermediates. With this restriction an intermediary can profitably raise demand for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2017 (Revised March 2019)
Case

Armarium: Luxury Fashion Brands for Rent

By: Jill Avery, David Fubini, Natasha Dossa and Devon Stewart

Armarium, a two-sided online platform that offered consumers the opportunity to rent the most coveted, current season high fashion clothing and accessories from the top global luxury brands, had emerged from its first sales season with two distinct customer segments:... View Details

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08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

notion underlying permanent employment actually is a good one. It is taken to the extreme in Japan. What we are soon to discover in the United States—if we haven't already discovered it—is that having employees move rapidly from company... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

01 Jun 2010
News

Rethinking the MBA

and models. We need to do more around risk and restraint and the pros and cons of regulation. So this is a particular moment when both the demand and the supply sides are raising fundamental questions and are more open to change than... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2004
News

Luxe Redux

markets,” says HBS professor emeritus Walter J. Salmon, a specialist in consumer marketing and retail distribution. He cites “cultural sensitivity” — the ability to know what consumers will want before they know it themselves — as a key attribute for success. Factor in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade

01 Apr 2002
News

Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value

matching the ratio between his cost and the price he charges. For example, if he buys the papers for ten cents and sells them for seventy cents, and his records show that demand is typically ten papers or less six days out of every week,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

February 2021
Teaching Plan

Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Amy Klopfenstein

This teaching plan serves as a supplement to the case “Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?” HBS 820-098. The case explores the tension between two different financing and expansion plans for a startup, and explores issues related to business model pivots and industry... View Details