Supply And Demand - Publications - Faculty & Research

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 View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

versus items they should buy (salad). In their research on online grocery-buying habits and DVD rentals, Harvard Business School's Katy Milkman and Todd Rogers, along with Professor Max Bazerman, provide... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

01 Sep 2008
News

Farming for Fuel

out ways to make more of it and use less of it. So the assumption that we’re not going to have supply and demand responses to this is an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Animal Production and Aquaculture

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

demand for control over remittances in the baseline survey. We also find positive spillovers of our savings intervention in the form of increased savings at other banks (specifically, banks in the U.S.). We interpret the effects we find... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

among historians and scholars from other disciplines who are taking a historical approach to their work has demanded intellectual leadership. Al Chandler has provided that leadership for more than forty... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

07 Nov 2024
Blog Post

Meet the Aerospace & Defense Club

graduation Ben will join Snowpoint Ventures, a dual-use focused fund, as a senior associate. Clif Luber: cluber@mba2025.hbs.edu Clif is an MBA candidate at HBS and served in the U.S. Navy as a Supply View Details

Keywords: All Industries

December 1978 (Revised January 1986)
Case

Pepsi-Cola (A)

By: Walter J. Salmon and Steven R. Palesy

Combining aspects of a functionally organized marketing management system, with a franchised channel of distribution network. Focuses on extending an innovative promotional program to a market where competitive conditions differ. View Details

Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Management; Marketing; Marketing Reference Programs; Network Effects; Distribution; Organizational Design; Franchise Ownership; Competition; Food and Beverage Industry

Citation

Find at Harvard

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

declares. "The fact of the matter is, advances in medical technology now make it possible for nurse practitioners to handle many cases with considerable expertise and at considerably less expense. Similarly, family physicians can now... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

16 Jul 2018
Blog Post

3 Key Take-a-Ways From My Summer at Zalando

I am now on the halfway point of my internship and I would like to use this post to share three of the most relevant experiences I have had in the last few weeks at Zalando. 1. Management Board speaks about Diversity As I mentioned on my... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

03 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

Business School Case 307-077 Describes the opportunities and strategy facing one of the most innovative global supply-chain companies, and the strategy it has chosen to deal with the expanding View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

language skills meet the demands of their work and that employees aren't over- or underestimated based on their language skills. Interestingly, language skills can seem abstract or amorphous. In reality, for... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

Working PapersState Owned Entity Reform in the Absence of Privatization: Reforming Indian National Laboratories and Role of Leadership Authors:Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna Abstract The literature... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Oct 2021
Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders

their family after years spent working in house cleaning and other physically demanding jobs . He decided to stay in the US “I loved it here, this was home now,” he explained. So Westphal stayed on his own... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

appeal of anonymity seems inherently flawed for storing large values in an age when the threat of identity theft through electronic eavesdropping and in-person, gun-to-the-head demands for access View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

and gotten more efficient in manufacturing, operations, supply chains, and shared service initiatives. But the focus of productivity improvements is shifting, because the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

November 2001 (Revised August 2002)
Case

Audio Spotlight, The

By: Youngme E. Moon

Joe Pompei, a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, has invented a breakthrough audio invention. The invention is an "Audio Spotlight" that projects a narrow beam of sound in the same way a laser beam projects a narrow beam of light. He must now decide how to... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Independent Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Value Creation

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Educators

Purchase

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

basis, the riskless asset is not a nominal annuity or Treasury bond, but rather inflation-protected annuities and Treasury bonds (also known as TIPS). The demand for TIPS has grown considerably since they... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

28 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

similar companies in their industry and recommended areas of expense adjustments that would be of help. I also quantified the environmental impact on the company’s supply chain with a proposal that they make... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note

Executive Education — typically contribute more than half of the total budget. But both units are vulnerable to economic downturns, and demand for HBP products and programs... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

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