Retail - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 May 2011
HBS Conference

Consortium For Operational Excellence in Retailing (COER) 2011

21 Jun 2022
HBS Conference

Consortium For Operational Excellence in Retailing (COER) 2022

06 May 2019
HBS Conference

Consortium For Operational Excellence in Retailing (COER) 2019

30 Oct 2017
News

Exclusive Q&A: How Retailers Can Escape The ‘Content Trap’

29 Jun 2021

Women in Industry Series: Retail & Consumer Goods

Please join faculty member Dr. Jill Avery as she moderates a panel of HBS women making a difference in the retail and consumer goods space. Learn about their experiences and how HBS has played a role in their journeys. View Details

16 Oct 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Shipping Fees and Product Assortment in Online Retail

Keywords: by Chaoqun Chen and Donald Ngwe; Retail

30 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?

The line gets blurry for shoppers when retailers won't honor their online prices in-store. (Kwangmoozaa) While shopping for my 10-year-old daughter’s Halloween costume last October, I pulled out my smartphone and hopped online to see if... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

September 2006
Supplement

CEMEX: Rewarding the Egyptian Retailers - Video Supplement

Keywords: Retail Industry; Egypt

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February 1992 (Revised December 1992)
Case

European Retail Alliance: (Ahold--The Netherlands, Argyll--United Kingdom, Casino--France)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Keywords: Alliances; Retail Industry; Netherlands; United Kingdom; France

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06 Sep 2018
News

As huge brick-and-mortar retailers are strangled out of business by Amazon, local retailers are like, 'no big deal'

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

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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

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Logistics; Product; Quality; Sales; Retail Industry

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