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- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
higher cost of goods sold, giving them less room to discount. And if they don't sell a product one day, they can hold it in inventory for future sale. So marginal business is less urgent for them. We're not... View Details
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
the subprime lenders—willing to take the risk on riskier borrowers, for a price. Thus far the tale testifies to America's entrepreneurial spirit. New mortgage banks specializing in subprime loans sprang up. Their panoply of products... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53512 Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang Abstract—We consider a price-based network revenue management problem where a retailer aims to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
digital assets are (they're not always obvious). A team of senior managers from across the company should take an inventory of data and systems, assess how valuable each is to the company, and decide how much risk the company can absorb... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
products of value to someone. The purpose of this chapter is to build a robust and versatile language that is capable of representing large technical systems. The language is based on elements I have labeled functional components. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
described in terms meaningful to this market through the company's first direct-to-the-consumer advertising. Production runs were lengthened and inventory simplified. Glass decoration was all but eliminated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
Amazon and relying instead on Shopify as an online storefront and on ShipBob for fulfillment. Then came the cold shower of reality: Customer acquisition beyond Amazon can prove very expensive. He decided to offer Neutrall’s products there... View Details
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
limited to things that can be digitized, thereby excluding most products for which inventory carrying and other logistics costs for unpopular items are prohibitive? Does it warrant an entirely new field of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516108-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-049 Curtis LLP: A Case on Cases A product market firm faces an inventory investment decision in the face of demand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
remarkably well.—Nancy F. Koehn In Part Two, to appear in the April 23 update of HBS Working Knowledge, Koehn discusses the remarkable brand power created by Estée Lauder, Howard Schultz, and Michael Dell. ... A Parachute Through Time All three of these entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
influenced not just by the decisions it makes and the assets inside the company, but also by the surrounding business environment in the locations at which the company operates. The business environment shapes the skills, knowledge, and technology available as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
the Toyota production system and lean manufacturing, we also discuss the complementary need for pooling inventory across sites and even firms. Right now, we are seeing companies and health systems bidding... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
graph theorists had to say about the impact of network design on transportation and inventory location at least 60 years ago. It was my meal ticket to a position on the Harvard Business School faculty. What has changed, of course, is the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
organizational theory, less explored is how these effects may depend on other external environmental factors. We focus on how policy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to understand the growth of banking in the U.S., 1896-1978. Three characteristics of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
money using their mobile phones. Mobile money has grown quickly, but high stockout rates of currency persist due to suboptimal inventory decisions made by contracted employees (called agents). In partnership with a Tanzanian mobile money... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Johnson, David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang Abstract—We consider a price-based network revenue management problem where a retailer aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory over a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
ship-from-store (SFS), to increase their store productivity and expand their integrated presence across multiple retail channels (i.e. brick-and-mortar store, web, and mobile; also known as omnichannel retailing). The Scale Of The Threat... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
reserve prices and other parameters that substantially determine prices. Contrary to Google's claims, Google's auction does not fully determine prices; Google's actions and policies importantly influence prices. Google's purchase of substantial advertising View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
rather than by URLs. A shopper views a map that shows the retail topography of the local town, highlighting stores that sell products of particular interest. He or she then selects a view showing specific brands, prices, store specials,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
graduates who want access to the School's renowned inventory of management information. A new Web portal, HBS Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu), was launched in October, bringing together a wealth of information from... View Details