Demand And Consumers - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Jun 2021
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How Traffic Congestion In Chicago Is Backing Things Up In Los Angeles: Pipeline Inventory Is Now A Big Logistics Problem

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

than their share of scarce environmental resources and therefore must now consume less," observes Fri. "Another is that the developing countries, whose exploding populations threaten to tax the carrying... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

2022, it was heralded as a landmark investment in the environment. “This bill is the biggest step forward on climate ever,” President Joe Biden said when he signed the legislation, which included $369 billion for efforts such as advancing clean energy, curbing... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

Highway As cities reshape themselves and populations increase, demand for goods will rise. And if the pandemic taught us anything about supply View Details

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

Assistant Professor Michael Luca found in a field experiment. “As consumers come to expect everything on-demand in the wake of the growing popularity of on-demand apps, such as Uber, Lyft, and Instacart, we... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

company is doing a good job preparing for Y2K, you may have essential business links to companies that aren't. Is my desktop vulnerable? Yes. A computer is different from most other consumer products. When you buy a new car, you trade in... View Details

13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

because we wanted it to be perfect. The reality is a startup isn’t about perfection on the first try. When we launched our first product we were hawks––watching and waiting for any feedback we could get. Hearing what View Details

21 Mar 2024
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OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC

consumer needs. “It would be awfully nice to be able to use data and predictive power to get computers to say ‘we recognize this pattern, we’ve seen this before, we should do x instead of y.’ It would get us... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

field-based cases, notes, and software models have been created for Entrepreneurial Finance. "I started the course to shed light on how individuals and teams identify opportunities, how they marshall the... View Details

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

04 May 2021
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Best Buy Savior Hubert Joly Details a New Approach to Leadership

20 Nov 2017
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How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

01 Sep 2020
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Action Plan: Finding Fluency

trying to be disciplined about a marketing calendar with 16-week lead times,” Dunaway recalls. Plans for April Fool’s Day and Olympics-related campaigns went out the window. “We had to ask: What are the needs that View Details

Keywords: April White; foreign language; education and technology; digital marketing; change management; COVID-19; Educational Services