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- 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
- 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
- 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 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 2018
- News
Digging Deep
solidly built, collapsible shovel tools that won’t break when things get down and dirty. In the past year, Pieper moved manufacturing from China to Portland, Oregon, a difficult logistical shift that nonetheless made it easier to control quality and respond to market... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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 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)
- 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 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
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
disease are likely to multiply. If the Midwest is able to maintain its high standards for agriculture, it has an opportunity to supply the needs of growing populations in other parts of the world. The U.S. “needs a long strategy” around... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 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
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
Video Embed Cryoocyte’s home lab in action With ocean fisheries increasingly failing to meet global demands—about 85 percent of them are classified as depleted or worse, according to the World Bank—the future of the food supply will... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
and skilled people to accomplish what relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that managed the flow of relief supplies. IBM’s actions exemplify an emerging business idea: the vanguard company creating synergy... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
businesses and organizations to provide users with a highly personalized selection of goods, services, and information." Employing passwords and aliases to ensure anonymity, individual users supply personal preference and choice... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
Collins (MBA 1984) via LinkedIn We have removed almost all price signaling from health care. The only way to align supply and demand is by correcting this. A bureaucracy will never get it right. Only a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance