Demand And Consumers - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Mar 2015
What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

power of unions, competition based on lower prices and costs, the failure of governments to take action—inequality appears to have increased over the past three decades in many parts of the world. A strong economic case can be made that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

December 1993
Teaching Note

GTE Corporation (C) TN

By: Jay O. Light and James O. Sailer

Keywords: Consumer Products Industry

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April 1987 (Revised October 1989)
Case

Winchell Lighting, Inc. (A)

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Designed to teach students how to trace marketing costs to products. View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Marketing; Consumer Products Industry

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03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

What should Jim do? The array of ethical choices forms the basis of discussion in the MBA required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Supply And Demand... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

February 1999
Teaching Note

www.springs.com TN

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for (9-398-091). View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products Industry; South Carolina

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24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

13 Jun 2014
Op-Ed

World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention

50 percent share of the television sets turned on at any given night in that country. The Price Of Attention Attention is becoming a scarce resource. Due to consumer behaviors such as multitasking and... View Details

Keywords: by Thales Teixeira; Sports

January 1994
Case

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (Abridged)

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein

Keywords: Consumer Products Industry

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September 2003 (Revised February 2004)
Case

Alessi: Evolution of an Italian Design Factory (C)

By: Youngme E. Moon, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Design; Consumer Products Industry; Italy

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10 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: The Coming World Oil Crisis

McAdam, Chief Executive Officer, Aquamarine Power LimitedMatthew Simmons, Chairman, Simmons & Company International The panelists offered sobering perspectives on the world's dwindling oil resources, assessing the ramifications and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

southern Africa, among the highest in the world. In addition, though South Africa is often classified as an emerging economy, it might be more correctly seen as having two economies—the normal economy of sophisticated consumers View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

February 2011 (Revised July 2011)
Supplement

Caterpillar, Inc. (C)

By: David F. Hawkins

IASB proposes new defined benefit plan accounting standard. View Details

Keywords: International Accounting; Governance; Compensation and Benefits; Standards; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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January 1971 (Revised March 1972)
Case

Holiday Greetings, Inc.

By: Fred K. Foulkes and William E. Fruhan Jr.

Keywords: Consumer Products Industry

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06 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Art of American Advertising

in the years following the Civil War—when the railroad industry created a new, national network for manufacturing and distributing consumer goods. (These were the days when "posting" referred to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

April 2005 (Revised March 2006)
Supplement

Change at Whirlpool Corporation (B)

By: Jan W. Rivkin, Dorothy A. Leonard and Gary Hamel

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Change; Consumer Products Industry

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19 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

Today, Amazon participates in so many industries that it takes a small army of researchers at HBS to track them all: retailing, cloud computing, book stores, grocery stores, digital consumer products, commercial real estate,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

business model. If the model is characterized by increasing returns, demand begets still greater demand, as illustrated by eBay's success. A business may also benefit from significant scale economies if big up-front investments View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

07 Aug 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

food and fuel; we're talking about health care, about which consumers and providers may be less rational. For example, behavioral economists would tell us, among other things,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

predictor of events, but the power and sometimes outrageous language used by Levitt changed the nature of debate on the issue, and created new perspectives for managers to consider as they approach world... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors