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- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
inventory needs. Take, for example, a large American manufacturer of men's blazers. As part of our research into lean retailing, we tracked the demand for different sizes of a blue blazer. Far from a trendy fashion item, the blue blazer... View Details
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Commodities Research: data and reports
Foreign Agricultural Service PS&D (Production, Supply & Distribution) Provides both data and monthly analysis on agricultural commodities. View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
outmoded management practices, changing the role of senior management, and the CEO as "coach." "The profound changes we are witnessing," write Nohria and Champy in the book's epilogue, "are indeed demanding a new organization - an... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
think the data exists." (In these instances, I came up with estimates and went on with the necessary calculations.) I wasn't surprised. How many of us have sat in on board meetings where the analysis of historical financial data went... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), which conducts an annual analysis of available labor data. Presumably, the Dodd-Frank rule, once it's mandated, will make more data available for such analyses. The Security and Exchange... View Details
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Data for Impact: Impact Measurement from Startup to Fortune 500 C-Suite - Course Catalog
facing demands to look beyond their bottom line, to meet a broader set of responsibilities to society and our planet. This is evidenced by the strength of ESG and impact investing industries but also by the proliferation of roles... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
In the debate over whether to increase or decrease the stringency of environmental regulations, the possibility that government agencies might use purchasing to stimulate market demand for "green" products and services is often... View Details
- February 2021 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
SafeGraph: Selling Data as a Service
By: Ramana Nanda, Abhishek Nagaraj and Allison Ciechanover
Set in January 2021, the CEO of SafeGraph, a four-year-old startup that sold Data as a Service, looked to the future. His aim was to become the most trusted source for data about a physical place. The company provided points of interest (POI) and foot traffic data on... View Details
Keywords: Data As A Service; Monetization; Pricing; Business Startups; Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior; Analysis; Business Model; Health Pandemics; Information Industry; United States
Nanda, Ramana, Abhishek Nagaraj, and Allison Ciechanover. "SafeGraph: Selling Data as a Service." Harvard Business School Case 821-082, February 2021. (Revised May 2021.)
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
fixing easy-to-solve problems had greater improvement in safety climate than those focused on identifying a bunch of hard-to-solve ones. "To our knowledge, this tradeoff between analysis and action in process improvement programs has not... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
the Foxwoods story. The true story is one of strategic negotiation and the leveraging of tribal sovereignty into economic opportunity. Using a close analysis of the Foxwoods-Connecticut negotiations as a point of departure, this chapter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
product categories on the Internet. An analysis by Harris Interactive ecommercePulse computed the ratio of dollars consumers spent offline as a result of online shopping to dollars spent online. The greater the ratio, the more likely that... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
medical radiation safety. "The demand shock caused by an accident could actually be good news for companies." “There was suddenly a huge spike in the public’s attention on medical radiation risk,” says Hong Luo, James Dinan and... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
"Businesses are becoming so complex that integrating predictive analytics in decision making is not very far away I think 'predictive analytics' is the 'Moneyball' for businesses." Kapil Kumar Sopory said that, "Prevention is better than cure, and this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
emotions of viewers. "To make this analysis even more useful, we need to get a measure of the enjoyment or the feeling a person is experiencing while watching a commercial—and we want that to be as unobtrusive as the eye tracker, at... View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
that he had had two negative colonoscopies, so the risk suggested by the genetic analysis was mitigated substantially by the reality of those two tests with healthy outcomes. “The question is always and legitimately raised by health care... View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
large-store formats, multiple-store formats and extensive channel blurring in the U.S. retail industry. Our analysis is based on aggregate segment-level data from the Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS), the Monthly Retail Trade Survey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Eligibility & Criteria Awards How to Apply Past Projects Reimbursement grants are awarded on a case-by-case, funds-available basis. For a team with one HBS student: maximum grants will be $1,000 for eligible expenses, based on student View Details
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Strategies for Value Creation (SVC) - Course Catalog
illustrate opposing viewpoints. Course Content and Organization Cases typically analyze the value implications of major strategic decisions or analysis of unique business models. It will utilize more strategy concepts (creating and... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2024 (Revised February 2024)
- Teaching Note
Travelogo: Understanding Customer Journeys
By: Eva Ascarza and Ta-Wei Huang
Teaching Note for HBS Exercise 524-044. The exercise aims to teach students about 1) Customer Segmentation; and 2) constructing buying personas, 3) Get actionable insights from clickstream data. View Details