Unit Demand - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

year 1900 to fully grasp. Our sophisticated modern-day management processes did not exist in or prior to the nineteenth century because they simply weren't needed. After the Civil War in the United States, for example, there were only a... View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

September 2010
Case

Aaron's: Household Goods for the U.S. Base of the Pyramid

By: Michael Chu and Charles Augustus Smithgall IV

With $2.5 billion system-wide revenues, Aaron's, a major rent-to-own supplier to the U.S. base of the pyramid, continues to grow in the recession, but CEO R.C. Loudermilk, Jr. wonders how long the company can sustain the fast growth rate of its past. Founded in 1955,... View Details

Keywords: Fairness; For-Profit Firms; Renting or Rental; Financial Crisis; Demand and Consumers; Social Enterprise; Income; Goods and Commodities; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; United States

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March 2002 (Revised November 2003)
Case

Satellite Radio

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alastair Brown

In early 2002, XM and Sirius were fighting for control of the emerging U.S. market for satellite radio. Each company targeted consumers in automobiles, providing 100 channels of CD-quality audio for a monthly subscription fee of $10-$13. Wall Street analysts predicted... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Price; Risk and Uncertainty; Problems and Challenges; Network Effects; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Business Model; Investment Return; Auto Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

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20 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In the model, many investors form their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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 demand declined in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

holds true in most health care service markets in the United States: You should think about what market position you occupy, how it is differentiated from others’, and whether you are fulfilling the needs of your target market. It’s... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

11 Nov 2021
Blog Post

ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

differently,’” Tseng says. “I know what that means: Someone could have gotten killed.” If Brandon Tseng was prescient about the demand for technology that could reduce the risks associated with indoor-clearance operations, Ryan Tseng... View Details

04 Jun 2008
News

Whistle While You Work

court press,” “Slam dunk,” “Going for the gold, “Hit a home run” your favorite here). It’s a cooptation with a curious side. To me, music and sports convey transcendence: the mind and body at play, freed from the constraints and demands... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

Profile

Andrew Boudreau

school was missing out on revenues, and the world was missing out on terrific new innovations.” The business, Hopkins Technology Commercialization Agency, started with five students and quickly found “a lot of demand inside the university... View Details

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

leverage this source of demand to learn from these experiences and design and develop innovative products. What should GM do? It must aim to achieve a clear transition with the IPO and not be satisfied with only incremental improvements.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

03 Jul 2018
What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

The “case” appears not to be closed. It will not go away. Just last week, Nadella, at a meeting with new interns, was presented with a USB stick containing the names of 300,000 signatories, including 500 Microsoft employees, to a statement View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

capital—anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000—yet get to scale quickly and build new applications on the Web. Sleeping By The Cell Phone Just as technology is influencing society, society is increasingly making demands on technology, said Sue... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

Noam Wasserman is an assistant professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow in the entrepreneurial management unit at Harvard Business School. His paper "Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Success," published in... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

linkages with the local economy. Another approach to cluster development is to attract multinationals that will become demanding customers of local suppliers. After that, it's essential to create specialized training programs in the local... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

expensive precisely because of the country's prosperity. With the wages and purchasing power of working people largely stagnant over the last two decades, the cost of adequate housing in a decent neighborhood has soared beyond the reach of many. Today, the View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

01 Dec 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

and the Underground Economy edited by John Edmunds (DBA 1977) Greenwood This easy-to-use guide covers the history, development, and current workings of cyber currencies and the underground economy, both in the United States and around the... View Details

11 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

country unit to adjust to local needs is a critical balancing act. Rule 4: Timing is critical. Retailers would do well to stop planting flags and focus instead on a limited set of opportunities where they can establish operations of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2008
News

Mara Aspinall

medication, to reflect the availability and efficacy of a test to guide patient dosing. Are there other countries that are making more progress on this than we are? Several single-payer systems have been more aggressive in personalizing medicine and View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

24 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 24

March 2015 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A Behavioral Model of the Popularity and Regulation of Demandable Liabilities By: Rotemberg, Julio J. Abstract—Overoptimism regarding one's ability to arrive early in a queue is shown... View Details