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- 20 Nov 2024
- Podcast
Using AI to Optimize Energy Demand
In this episode, host Mike Toffel speaks with Pasi Miettinen, CEO of Sagewell, a company that uses AI to help utilities and their customers manage energy demand efficiently. Pasi explains how Sagewell’s technology helps reduce peak electricity usage, which in turn... View Details
- 08 Nov 2010
- News
Is There an Optimal Rich-Poor Gap?
- July 2022
- Supplement
Solution for E-Commerce Analytics for CPG Firms (B): Optimizing Assortment for a New Retailer
By: Ayelet Israeli
Keywords: Data; Data Analysis; Data Analytics; Data Sharing; CPG; Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG); Delivery Planning; Customer Lifetime Value; Online Channel; Retail; Retail Analytics; Retailing Industry; Ecommerce; Grocery; Optimization; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Customer Value and Value Chain; Marketing Channels; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
- spring 2001
- Article
Banner Advertising: Measuring Effectiveness and Optimizing Placement
By: John Deighton and Lee Sherman
Deighton, John, and Lee Sherman. "Banner Advertising: Measuring Effectiveness and Optimizing Placement." Journal of Interactive Marketing 15, no. 2 (spring 2001).
- fall 2002
- Article
Distortion and Risk in Optimal Incentive Contracts
By: George P. Baker
Baker, George P. "Distortion and Risk in Optimal Incentive Contracts." Journal of Human Resources 37, no. 4 (fall 2002).
- Summer 2016
- Article
Dynamic Capabilities at Samsung: Optimizing Internal Co-opetition
By: Jaeyong Song, Kyungmook Lee and Tarun Khanna
This article presents a clinical study, based on a decade of ongoing research at Samsung Group, which describes how the Samsung Group and its mobile phone division competed successfully in smartphones. The ability to manage co-opetition—simultaneous forces of... View Details
Song, Jaeyong, Kyungmook Lee, and Tarun Khanna. "Dynamic Capabilities at Samsung: Optimizing Internal Co-opetition." California Management Review 58, no. 4 (Summer 2016): 118–140.
- summer 2001
- Article
Optimizing Inventory Replenishment of Retail Fashion Products
By: Ananth Raman, Marshall Fisher and Kumar Rajaram
Raman, Ananth, Marshall Fisher, and Kumar Rajaram. "Optimizing Inventory Replenishment of Retail Fashion Products." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 3, no. 3 (summer 2001): 230–241.
- 15 Nov 2012
- News
U.S. Economy Faces Challenges But Optimism Remains
- 04 Jun 2020
- News
What Leading with Optimism Really Looks Like
- 27 Sep 2012
- News
How To Use Optimism To Defeat Adversity
- 05 Jan 2010
- News
12 Dr. Dooms Shred 2010 Investing Optimism
- 29 Mar 2022
- News
Work from Anywhere Optimizes Work, Workers, Businesses
- 12 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals
Most HBS students are aware of the complementary coaching opportunities available through Career & Professional Development (CPD). Yet many of them, and their alumni colleagues, may not know that coaching remains available to them long after graduation, and can be... View Details
- Research Summary
Optimal Heteroskedasticity Autocorrelation Consistent Covariance Estimators for GMM Weighting Matrices
This paper considers the optimal bias-variance tradeoff for estimators of the long run covariance matrix used to generate GMM weighting matrices in time series contexts. Minimum MSE HAC estimators do not yield minimum MSE GMM estimators. Instead, achieving... View Details
- January 2021
- Exercise
E-Commerce Analytics for CPG Firms (B): Optimizing Assortment for a New Retailer
By: Ayelet Israeli and Fedor (Ted) Lisitsyn
The E-Commerce Analytics group at the traditional CPG firm was in charge of compiling various online sales reports, as well as making data-driven recommendations for sales and marketing tactics. In a series of exercises, students address different data challenges for... View Details
Keywords: Data Analysis; Data Analytics; CPG; Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG); Online Channel; Retail Analytics; Retail; Retailing Industry; Data; Data Sharing; Ecommerce; CRM; Loyalty Management; Assortment Planning; Assortment Optimization; Lifetime Value (LTV); Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Retention; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
Israeli, Ayelet, and Fedor (Ted) Lisitsyn. "E-Commerce Analytics for CPG Firms (B): Optimizing Assortment for a New Retailer." Harvard Business School Exercise 521-079, January 2021.
- March 31, 2023
- Article
What Is the Optimal Pattern of a Customer Journey?
Even though customer experience (CX) leaders are becoming increasingly focused on optimizing their firms’ customer journeys, they face a clear challenge: Which touchpoints along the journey should they invest in? That is, which moments when the customer interacts with... View Details
De Freitas, Julian. "What Is the Optimal Pattern of a Customer Journey?" Harvard Business Review (website) (March 31, 2023).
- June 2020 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Shinola Detroit: Optimizing Product Line Breadth
By: Robert J. Dolan
Dolan, Robert J. "Shinola Detroit: Optimizing Product Line Breadth." Harvard Business School Case 520-111, June 2020. (Revised January 2023.)
- February 1990
- Article
Inflation and Taxation with Optimizing Governments
By: J. J. Rotemberg and James Poterba
Rotemberg, J. J., and James Poterba. "Inflation and Taxation with Optimizing Governments." Journal of Money, Credit & Banking 22 (February 1990): 1–19.
- spring 1992
- Article
Optimal Transfer Pricing under Postcontract Information
By: R. Banker and S. Datar
Banker, R., and S. Datar. "Optimal Transfer Pricing under Postcontract Information." Contemporary Accounting Research 8, no. 2 (spring 1992): 329–352.
- July 2019
- Article
Optimal Capital Structure and Bankruptcy Choice: Dynamic Bargaining vs Liquidation
By: Samuel Antill and Steven R. Grenadier
We model a firm’s optimal capital structure decision in a framework in which it may later choose to enter either Chapter 11 reorganization or Chapter 7 liquidation. Creditors anticipate equityholders’ ex-post reorganization incentives and price them into the ex-ante... View Details
Keywords: Default; Dynamic Bargaining; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Mathematical Methods
Antill, Samuel, and Steven R. Grenadier. "Optimal Capital Structure and Bankruptcy Choice: Dynamic Bargaining vs Liquidation." Journal of Financial Economics 133, no. 1 (July 2019): 198–224.