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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
20-person team when your venture is pre-revenue is not impressive; it could be worrisome.” While the forecast is far from sunny, entrepreneurs are still raising funds, Austin notes—and plenty is still possible with little to no financial...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
of economic development that lifts all boats isn’t quite happening—yet. The next wave of change that needs to take place in Chattanooga isn’t as straightforward as cleaning up the city’s air or developing its waterfront, impressive and successful as those efforts...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
booming. Banks and companies, eager for a piece of the action, invest heavily in production capability. Not surprisingly, a market can soon become saturated with too much product; consequently, demand drops, revenues slow to a trickle,...
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Garry Emmons
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
we had identified back then, climate change and global security, continue to drive massive demand for our product. We have had a compound annual growth rate over the last seven years of our revenue of 118%. DM: I asked that question...
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- 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 chains," says Shenkar, adding that...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
founder. Under his management, product demand was so high at times that executives actually found themselves discussing ways to slow sales. That all changed in the early 1990s as seismic shifts pounded the toy market. Big-box toy...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
version first. Launch it to test real demand and to better understand usage patterns and segments. If it is successful, raising more capital for developing the digital shouldn’t be a problem. You can then position a more sophisticated...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Highly Energetic
The fourth annual Energy Symposium at HBS in October brought together industry executives, venture capitalists, and consultants to discuss the sector’s challenges and opportunities. Winds of change are turning hearts and minds as well as turbines: While View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
can respond appropriately to demand, lean inventories, and the rapid replenishment of stock. "The old way was to gear planning and production decisions to forecasts and guesses made months in advance of a selling season," write Hammond...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
or collisions amid high seas, gale-force winds, and icebergs. But life demands a balance, and I needed to give and to grow. As a businessperson, I also shuddered at the thought of protesters taking matters into their own hands. But I knew...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
hosted an HBS Club of New York panel discussion on cryptocurrencies earlier this year, and she’s here to help us forecast the future of digital dough. “People who got burned when the price of bitcoin crashed are now starting to do more...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
employed more than 10 million American workers and generated $1.8 trillion in revenue in 2003, concluded a study by Global Insight, a leading economic and forecasting firm. HBS professors Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner, in their 2001 book,...
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- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
the world: growing demand and limited supply. According to US research, the world's demand for fresh and pure water is forecast to exceed supply by 50 percent by 2025. Other...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
overcrowded with flu sufferers and cancer patients alike. Doctors feel the pinch of wave after wave of government-imposed budget constraints, such as the decision to freeze the number of hospital beds in spite of the increasing percentage of aging patients. For...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
news content creation business. Creating high-quality news content is an expensive endeavor and one that doesn’t scale that easily. These companies are platforms that can aggregate consumer demand and sell advertising against that. It’s...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
those business aspects where agility is most crucial—where the business environment is changing fast—and which elements have the greatest impact on customers’ decisions. She then shows how to master three aspects of agility: market agility (gaining ideas from the most...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
to pay for high levels of service at the front of the house may decrease. And there’ll be additional costs to maintain that level of service due to the decreased capacity demanded by social distancing. There could be higher compensation,...
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