Supply ＆ Demand - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Business and the Environment

Governments, business, and consumers must act to address climate change. The actions must deal with resource supply issues and renewable energy, as well as with demand issues. Ultimately, these actions will... View Details

Keywords: Re: Forest L. Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

25 Jun 2020
News

Covering All Corners

Riad Armanious (MBA 2008) regards the pandemic as the greatest professional challenge he has faced as managing director of family-owned Eva Group and CEO of Eva Pharma, a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Egypt. The View Details

19 Nov 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Marijuana

Administration, holds a joint appointment at Harvard School of Public Health as Professor in Health Policy and Management. Creating Demand One big open question is the degree to which illegal demand will be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

31 Mar 2011
News

Building an Online Swap Shop

on paper: ‘Yeah, sure, we’re just going to create demand here and supply here, and it’s all going to work out.’ Even now, we’re still dealing with big challenges.” Soon after launching in April 2010, thredUP... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

September 2008
Case

Harrington Collection: Sizing Up the Active-Wear Market

By: Richard S. Tedlow and Heather Beckham

In the wake of slumping sales and sagging profit margins, a leading manufacturer and retailer of high-end women's apparel, Harrington Collection, must evaluate an opportunity to expand into the high-growth active-wear market. Sara Huey, Vice President of Strategic... View Details

Keywords: Breakeven Analysis; Product Introduction; Expansion; Consumer Behavior; Supply and Industry; Product Launch; Apparel and Accessories Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

27 Sep 2021
News

Sewn with Love

supply chain. The gowns were produced by a tight circle of manufacturers that had begun to shut down as a result of COVID-19. “The system works very well when the demand is stable,” notes Hanazawa. It was... View Details

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 "Corruption can be defined as paying... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

09 Aug 2017
Blog Post

"A Balance Between Autonomy and Resources to Help Me Learn."

different function.” Prior to business school, Jon had fulfilled two roles in clean energy: one at a service provider to commercial energy users in the efficiency and demand response space,” and as an associate at an energy analytics... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

26 Apr 2016
First Look

April 26

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49804 Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China By: Iyer, Lakshmi, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian, and Xiaoxue Zhao Abstract—This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

soldiers), but also other individuals from contracting and spreading the virus. The effective use of face masks can prevent the spread of the virus, while not fully shutting down the economy. A public’s mass adoption of face masks requires consideration from both the... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

01 Dec 2020
News

Invest in the New Abnormal

Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong The novel coronavirus did more than disrupt jobs, supply chains, and financial markets, says HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé. The pandemic has also upended how... View Details

08 Mar 2017
News

Helping vets become resident landlords

four-unit, or a five-unit, and one of those units can be a commercial unit. “So the original thought is surging military vets into the decayed urban core of post-industrial cities, where land is vacant and available and potentially valuable, if you can create... View Details

27 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Buy big, sell small

in July 2020. This time, Shruti’s entrepreneurial timing was spot-on. Kiranas have an open-air layout, with counter-based transactions. When the pandemic closed indoor stores, kiranas became the lifeline for everyday needs. Facing frenzied consumer View Details

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as an industrial engineer, Tucker is interested in the perspective of frontline workers in productivity and process improvement, including how internal supply chains and other... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

developed by the company’s marketers and strategists. “They want to react to changing demand and supply conditions,” says study author Alexander J. MacKay, an assistant professor of business administration... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

sufficient. Instead, the problem we have to deal with has as much to do with the supply side as the demand side. That's very different from the 1930s. Additionally, the demand-side problem that we’re facing... View Details

23 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

world economy, curtailed oil demand due to conservation efforts and concern about greenhouse gas emissions, and the fact that many countries have upped their domestic production and thus reduced their imports. One of the most notable new... View Details

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

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

challenge of managing relationships with "partners" or "associates." Yet as the Rana Plaza disaster and too many other examples show, every outsourced stop along the supply and production chains holds the potential for... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

June 2023
Supplement

Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (D)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Scott Mayfield and Philipp Chvanov

Analyzes the company's decision on Project Cowboy following the events described in the C Case View Details

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Growth Management; Demand and Consumers; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Value Creation; Supply and Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; North America