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  • January 2010
  • Case

DR Corporation

By: Roy D. Shapiro
DR Corporation is a manufacturer of major appliances. The traffic manager is facing a decision of selecting a carrier for the inbound movement of motors. The primary case decisions are 1) what factors are critical to the decision; 2) how to calculate the tradeoffs... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Managerial Roles; Logistics; Supply Chain Management; Truck Transportation; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 26 Apr 2017
  • News

Harvard Business School Names Winners and Celebrates 20th New Venture Competition at Finale

  • July 2021
  • Article

Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy

By: Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons
We test whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates, from canvassers supporting... View Details
Keywords: Campaigns; Candidates; Elections; Experiment; Political Parties; Turnout; Voting Behavior; Voting; Political Elections; Behavior; Interpersonal Communication; Italy
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  • September 2010
  • Article

Do Inventory and Gross Margin Data Improve Sales Forecasts for U.S. Public Retailers?

By: Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur and Ananth Raman
Firm-level sales forecasts for retailers can be improved if we incorporate cost of goods sold, inventory, and gross margin (defined here as the ratio of sales to cost of goods sold) as three endogenous variables. We construct a simultaneous equations model, estimated... View Details
Keywords: Sales; Forecasting and Prediction; Distribution; Goods and Commodities; Cost; Public Sector; Profit; Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science; Retail Industry; United States
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  • Profile

Katy Lankester

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I came to business school to strengthen my judgement, because I believe as a leader I will be required to make important decisions with imperfect... View Details
Keywords: Health Care

    Justine Murray

    Justine is a doctoral student in the Micro Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. Her research interests include callings, meaningful work, time, money and happiness and how individuals account for each of these factors when making decisions about... View Details
    • 16 Feb 2021
    • Blog Post

    The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

    Picture yourself in the 4th grade. Are you looking up at your teacher as you hand in your math worksheet? Standing on your tip toes to reach the breakfast cereal? Franci Girard (MBA 2016) wasn’t. In the 4th grade, Girard hit her growth spurt View Details
    • April 2021
    • Teaching Note

    Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig

    By: Sunil Gupta and Jonathan Levav
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-010. In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company’s upcoming product launch. Formed through a joint venture between Keurig Dr. Pepper and Anheuser-Busch... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Markets; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Market Design; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Product; Product Design; Product Development; Business Model; Customers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Making; Decisions; Goods and Commodities; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Research; Research and Development; Strategy; Adoption; Competitive Advantage; Segmentation; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Value; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; North and Central America; United States
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    • 11 Dec 2023
    • Blog Post

    Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

    knows they stem from financial and strategy decisions, but also decisions the company is making around culture and values. “We're very committed... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • 19 Apr 2021
    • News

    Biggest risks in return to offices: Harvard remote work guru

      Flipkart: Transitioning to a Marketplace Model

      Founded in 2007 as an online book retailer, Flipkart rapidly became the largest e-commerce player in India, valued at almost $15 billion.  However, it faced intense competition from other e-commerce players like Amazon and Snapdeal. Over the years Flipkart was slowly... View Details
      • Research Summary

      Strategic Decision-Making Processes

      Michael Roberto is studying the processes that managers employ to make critical strategic decisions. Through extensive field research, he has examined how groups of senior managers make these decisions efficiently, and simultaneously build the consensus required to... View Details
      • 04 Nov 2022
      • News

      Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter’s Staff

      • 13 Oct 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

      pressures. There is some empirical evidence that family firms can make decisions that are longer-term oriented, but the evidence is not clear cut. And there can be significant... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • September 2021 (Revised November 2021)
      • Case

      Kwame Owusu-Kesse at the Harlem Children's Zone

      By: Jon M. Jachimowicz
      Do you—as leader, an individual within an organization, or running your own business—know when to say yes and when to say no? How do you make decisions about your own career and life? How do you counsel others who ask you for career and life insights?... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decisions; Nonprofit Organizations; Personal Development and Career; Growth and Development Strategy; Race; Social Issues; New York (city, NY)
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      • 10 Jun 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: June 10

      http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2013.837889?nosfx=y August 2013 Harvard Business Review The Price of Wall Street's Power By: Mukunda, Gautam Abstract—Over and over again, executives View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • April 2008
      • Teaching Note

      TerraCog Global Positioning Systems: Conflict and Communication on Project Aerial (Brief Case)

      By: Michael Beer and Sunru Yong
      Teaching note to case #2184 View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Meetings; Group Dynamics; Human Resource Management; Conflict; Leadership; Communication; Groups and Teams; Organizations; Decision Making; Human Resources; Conflict and Resolution
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      • May 2014
      • Article

      Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior

      By: Nils Rudi and David Drake
      In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior—the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior—the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation bias—the tendency to... View Details
      Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Behavior; Logistics; Decision Making
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      • 04 Feb 2022
      • Blog Post

      Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

      Larger organizations, typically those with a structured MBA internship program, begin engaging with first-year students in October and November, conduct interviews in January, and have offer View Details
      • 08 Jul 2015
      • What Do You Think?

      Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

      that include work at home programs, USAA offers the option of a four-day, 40-hour work week. Executives make use of the fifth day for reading, reflection, and planning. Non-executives use some of the time... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services