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- October 2011 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
Moda Operandi: A New Style of Fashion Retail
By: Mukti Khaire
Moda Operandi is a startup in the fashion industry. The firm organizes online trunk shows of designers' collections, allowing its members to directly order clothes from the collections shown in Fashion Weeks all over the world. Moda Operandi conveys the preorders to... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Internet and the Web; Design; Retail Industry; Retail Industry
Khaire, Mukti. "Moda Operandi: A New Style of Fashion Retail." Harvard Business School Case 812-040, October 2011. (Revised September 2014.)
- September – October 2010
- Article
The Effect of Product Variety and Inventory Levels on Retail Sales: A Longitudinal Study
By: Zeynep Ton and Ananth Raman
We examine the effects of product variety and inventory levels on store sales. Using four years of data from stores of a large retailer, we show that increases in product variety and inventory levels are both associated with higher sales. We also show that increasing... View Details
Ton, Zeynep, and Ananth Raman. "The Effect of Product Variety and Inventory Levels on Retail Sales: A Longitudinal Study." Production and Operations Management 19, no. 5 (September–October 2010): 546–560.
- July–August 2000
- Article
Rocket-Science Retailing Is Almost Here: Are You Ready?
By: Marshall L. Fisher, A. Raman and Anna McClelland
Fisher, Marshall L., A. Raman, and Anna McClelland. "Rocket-Science Retailing Is Almost Here: Are You Ready?" Harvard Business Review 78, no. 4 (July–August 2000): 115–124.
- September 1988 (Revised November 1988)
- Case
Watt Group: Consumer Product and Retailing Doctors (A)
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Goldberg, Ray A. "Watt Group: Consumer Product and Retailing Doctors (A)." Harvard Business School Case 589-051, September 1988. (Revised November 1988.)
- February 2025
- Teaching Note
Kwame Spearman at Tattered Cover: Reinventing Brick-and-Mortar Retail
By: Ryan Raffaelli
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-014. View Details
- March 2020
- Teaching Note
Grupo Éxito: Facing Colombia's Competitive Grocery Retail Industry
By: Jose B. Alvarez and Carla Larangeira
- September 1988
- Supplement
Watt Group: Consumer Product and Retailing Doctors (C)
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Goldberg, Ray A. "Watt Group: Consumer Product and Retailing Doctors (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 589-053, September 1988.
- January 2000
- Article
Retailing and Supply Chains in the Information World
By: J. H. Hammond, F.A. Abernathy, J.T. Dunlop and D. Weil
Hammond, J. H., F.A. Abernathy, J.T. Dunlop, and D. Weil. "Retailing and Supply Chains in the Information World." Technology in Society 22, no. 1 (January 2000): 5–31.
- Article
Productivity in Retailing: Retail Structure and Public Policy
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Louis P. Bucklin
Takeuchi, Hirotaka, and Louis P. Bucklin. "Productivity in Retailing: Retail Structure and Public Policy." Journal of Retailing 53, no. 1 (Spring 1977).
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
while sales for 43-regular vary as much as four times the average demand. A rare size, such as 43-long, would vary even more. To satisfy retail customers, the manufacturer must hold a proportionately larger inventory of 43-regular, even... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers
- Other Unpublished Work
Cross Sectional Analysis of Phantom Products at Retail Stores
By: Zeynep Ton and Ananth Raman
- June 2022 (Revised October 2022)
- Background Note
Digital Commerce and Delivery: Preparing Food and Retail Value Chains for a 50-50 World
By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor, Paige Boehmcke and Will Ensor
Increasing digitalization of grocery retail and quick commerce reveals insights about managing complex supply chains at scale and shifting revenue streams from product sales to data monetization. How are the roles of retailers changing? What happens if marginal cost... View Details
Keywords: Grocery Delivery; Grocery; Digitalization; Fulfillment; Delivery; Supply Chain; Disruption; Food; Supply Chain Management; Market Design; Trends; Value Creation; Goods and Commodities; Customer Value and Value Chain; Digital Transformation; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United States; China
Kerr, William R., Daniel O'Connor, Paige Boehmcke, and Will Ensor. "Digital Commerce and Delivery: Preparing Food and Retail Value Chains for a 50-50 World." Harvard Business School Background Note 822-108, June 2022. (Revised October 2022.)
- June 2003
- Article
The Impact of Frequent Shopper Programs in Grocery Retailing
By: Rajiv Lal and David E. Bell
Lal, Rajiv, and David E. Bell. "The Impact of Frequent Shopper Programs in Grocery Retailing." Quantitative Marketing and Economics 1, no. 2 (June 2003).
- August 1988
- Background Note
Note on the Use of Information Technology in Retailing
Mead, Melissa J. "Note on the Use of Information Technology in Retailing." Harvard Business School Background Note 189-024, August 1988.
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
As big box bookstores Barnes & Noble and Borders spread across the landscape in the 1990s, retail observers sounded the death knell for small, independent booksellers. But they had no idea of the onslaught that was coming. Amazon.com... View Details
- Other Unpublished Work
A Technique to Estimate Retail Demand and Lost Sales
By: A. Raman and Giulio Zotteri
- 2017
- Working Paper
Cellophane, the New Visuality, and the Creation of Self-Service Food Retailing
By: Ai Hisano
This working paper examines how innovations in transparent packaging, specifically cellophane in the mid-twentieth century United States, helped retailers create full self-service merchandising systems, including selling perishable food. While self-service stores began... View Details
Hisano, Ai. "Cellophane, the New Visuality, and the Creation of Self-Service Food Retailing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-106, May 2017.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic Pricing: Empirical Evidence from Online Retailing in Emerging Markets
By: Chaithanya Bandi, Antonio Moreno, Donald Ngwe and Zhiji Xu
We investigate how dynamic pricing can lead to higher operational costs through more product returns in the online retail industry. Dynamic pricing has been widely applied by many online retailers. Research has shown that, in response to dynamic pricing, some customers... View Details
- November–December 2000
- Article
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
By: F.H. Abernathy, J.T. Dunlop, J. Hammond and D. Weil
Abernathy, F.H., J.T. Dunlop, J. Hammond, and D. Weil. "Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing." Harvard Business Review 78, no. 6 (November–December 2000): 169–176.