Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better: Lessons from the Harvard Home Builder Study

by Kent Colton, Kermit Baker, Frederick H. Abernathy, et al.

Book Overview

Despite the growth of huge national home builders and industry consolidation that accompanied it, Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better shows that most builders did not improve their operational performance during the boom. As a result, the sector had a long way to fall as the economy collapsed about them. Given the importance of housing to the US economy, the book's lessons are critical to those in homebuilding as well as to policy makers, scholars, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739172891
• ISBN13: 9780739172896
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher