Supply ＆ Demand - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax

India is continuing to deploy new fossil fuel power generation, largely because of (a) the tremendous energy demand forecasts of the country and (b) inadequacies in grid infrastructure and energy storage. After the office presentation, we... View Details

01 Jan 2007
News

Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981

that serves as a phone, a PDA, and an e-mail and Internet access device. Handspring quickly became the fastest-growing company in American history at the time. It went public in 2000, but after the dot-com bust, the company found itself in trouble as View Details

February 2023 (Revised June 2023)
Supplement

Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (C)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield

Analyzes the company’s decision on Project Cowboy following the events described in the B 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

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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

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind

wind farm operator at the port. Running 24/7, the center monitors ships going to and from the turbines and crews working on them, as well as weather forecasts and energy demand forecasts to determine when to run the turbines. This visit... View Details

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

between 1998 and 2002. Chile did better in this era of globalization, and boomed supplying copper to China. Chile produced one-tenth of the world’s copper, but once more was badly affected when Chinese and world View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

companies like Amazon have been contemplating. For years, logistics have been managed by principles such as that of "postponement and speculation." The idea is that to approach the best match between supply and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Aug 2016
First Look

August 9, 2016

economic activity? This paper exploits the federal preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 7

Course MaterialsDemand Media John Deighton and Leora KornfeldHarvard Business School Case 511-043 Google search had helped Demand Media grow to be a $1.9 billion online publisher. Then, social media and smartphone apps began to change the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2023
News

Action Plan: Net Proceeds

“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to rebuilding the health care system in... View Details

Keywords: April White; recycling; corporate social responsibility; waste management; water; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

23 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Trends in Consumer Products

ahead of the previous year! During the pandemic, 5.7 million new homes bought the Betty Crocker brand, which was the highest penetration growth across all General Mills brands. That kind of consumer demand required radical action. We... View Details

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Thomas Stemberg | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Stemberg, HBS 1973, started his career in the supermarket industry. By the mid-1980s, out of work and looking for an entrepreneurial opportunity, he stumbled on an idea for a new business — a supermarket for office supplies. At the time, a boom in entrepreneurship was... View Details

17 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

produce buyers and proposed this solution. The buyers agreed, but they indicated they would only want to purchase a small fraction of the order that they had originally placed with Gotham Greens since the demand wasn’t there. As the... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

17 Apr 2024
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

economy through specialized, hands-on trade training programs. Searchlight - Ben Kallas (MBA 2024) - Searchlight will enable western countries to address vulnerabilities in their critical mineral supply chains by providing on-the-ground... View Details

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

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

disaster that killed over 1,000 factory workers in Bangladesh in 2013 highlighted to Western consumers the challenging conditions faced by the workers who made their clothes. Consumer pressure on Western retailers worked its way back up the View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

improving working conditions in their supply chain, creating better safety procedures, and reaping profits from products that address environmental and social problems. "Regulators and investors are asking for it, customers are View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

that business disruptions are not just potential threats, but common occurrences that demand immediate attention from CEOs, C-suite teams, and boards. It's time for leaders to take stock of their companies’ operational resilience—their... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

production of so-called "cheap oil," the most easily accessible of the world's carbon energy resources. These events are concurrent with new demands for oil, especially by the rapidly-expanding economies of Asia. All of this... View Details