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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
inability to get one of the espresso-based drinks to which he had grown attached during his years working in finance in New York. Dozie hopes to solve both the supply and the demand problems with Café Neo, a... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Hong Kong. I then founded my own search firm, Bó Lè Associates, in 1996. Even when there was neither demand nor supply for headhunting in China, I knew the demand would come if... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
demand payments of $10,000 and up. “We’re not talking about demand for potato chips,” Spar added. “This is the kind of demand that becomes an obsession. Price is less of an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
introduced in 2007. Created to provide educational experiences that complement and extend classroom learning, immersions offer students the opportunity for intensive exposure to an industry or region of the world. Demand was high: This... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
packaged-goods companies indicating that VMI is more prevalent where retailers deliver detailed demand data via highly reliable transfer methods. In short, manufacturers should think twice about implementing VMI if retailers are View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002) Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002) 2020 was the year everybody learned what a supply chain is. The first lesson came in the form of a toilet paper shortage in the earliest days of the pandemic. The most important... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
altitude. Imperfect Foods sold 40,000 of them. The company was founded with the goal of narrowing the yawning gap between supply and demand in the American food industry. The space is defined by two data... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
uniforms, and other urgently needed items. The actions we took enabled us to avoid the worst of most of the problems we faced. Perhaps they have some relevance to today’s worries. First, timely and accurate information was needed to manage critical View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
—GRAHAM GARDNER (MBA 2007) “We don’t define what is right for the patients. Our job is to get the data to help you find the best match for you.” —GRAHAM GARDNER (MBA 2007) “I saw that major health systems were struggling to match supply... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
Future. "One of the biggest unknowns right now is what Saddam Hussein will be allowed to do. Most people think that his reserves are very, very large. If he were free to expand the production and export of oil, that would definitely bring down prices." View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
Ramanna. Economic tools of supply and demand can also be applied to studying the phenomenon of corruption. On the demand side, it is true that corrupt government officials... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
of healthy, albeit relatively slow, economic growth in the developed world and increasing urbanization in developing economies, we expected to see growing demand for oil and natural gas and a subsequent price spike. We saw the growing... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
supply could be made up in other parts of the world? I would argue very strongly that once Saudi Arabia’s oil goes into decline the world’s oil supply has very likely peaked. The reality is that in the last... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system. A wake-up... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into more effective water technologies
demand for fresh and pure water is forecast to exceed supply by 40 percent. "Few businesses are prepared for water scarcity and its impact upon operations and their supply... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
problems. Supply chains will be disrupted. There will be new conflicts over water, resources, and human migration. The very physical integrity of factories and buildings will be threatened. So what can businesses do? For most firms,... View Details