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Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better

Frederick Abernathy, Kermit Baker, Kent Colton, David Weil
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      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 the public.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Frederick Abernathy, Kermit Baker, Kent Colton, David Weil EAN: 9780739172896 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Lexington Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-11-30 CITY: GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      Property and real estate, Urban and municipal planning and policy

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      Frederick Abernathy is Gordon McKay Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Abbott and James Lawrence Research Professor of Engineering in Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Kermit Baker is senior research fellow at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. Kent W. Colton is president of The Colton Housing Group and senior fellow at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. David Weil is professor of economics and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Boston University School of Management.
      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 the public.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Frederick Abernathy, Kermit Baker, Kent Colton, David Weil EAN: 9780739172896 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
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      Property and real estate, Urban and municipal planning and policy

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      Frederick Abernathy is Gordon McKay Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Abbott and James Lawrence Research Professor of Engineering in Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Kermit Baker is senior research fellow at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. Kent W. Colton is president of The Colton Housing Group and senior fellow at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. David Weil is professor of economics and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Boston University School of Management.

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