Demand Response - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

commercially available version of GPT-3 to elicit thousands of simulated customer responses and found that AI can produce demand patterns that resemble those of human studies. “Utilizing this tool, which is... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

owned by Cantor Index Holdings, mimics a real supply-and-demand-based stock exchange like the NYSE. HSX acts as the market maker—its technology is set up so that when there is high demand for a certain stock, prices will automatically go... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

Research Summary

Supply Chain Inventory Planning

My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details

January 2023
Teaching Note

The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni

Teaching Note for HBS Case No 122-014. In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged... View Details

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Purchase

12 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 12

amplify pressures to improve. Examining organizational responses to a change in a prominent information disclosure program, we provide some of the first empirical evidence characterizing organizations' heterogeneous View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

overlook, ignore, or downplay your concessions. Why? To avoid the strong social obligation to reciprocate. As a result, it is your responsibility to label your concessions and make them salient to the other party—a View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

29 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 29

Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World By: Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. Abstract—The question of how to lead successfully and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

tougher, especially when there is no opportunity for in-person interactions. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Lessons from Chinese Companies’ View Details

Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

restaurants.” More tip jars and prominent space on checks for voluntary staff appreciation contributions will likely be part of restaurants’ initial response and, as the economy recovers, menu prices will likely increase. Addressing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

06 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

the country was producing only 10 percent of the world's watches. Yet Switzerland has reemerged as the global leader of watch exports (by export value), due to a newfound market demand for old-style mechanical watches. This curious... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

Or Ronald Reagan’s witty response to concerns about his age that arose in his 1984 debate with Walter Mondale: “I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” The opportunity to speak directly to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

transactions and vice versa. This paper examines how service quality, competition, and poverty are related to demand and inventory (of electronic credit and physical cash) where, in this setting, service quality consists of pricing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

infrastructure that separates companies could have profound implications and incentivize companies to become more long-term-oriented. Q: What is the lesson for corporate leaders as they seek to balance the need for long-term strategy with short-term results View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

mitigating the risk of contagion. Other examples of this in the past have been less extreme, but include, for example, medical device advancement developed in response to a rise in consumer awareness of radiation risk. We recently... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

describe in detail how emotions and actions evolved recursively as coworkers sought to relieve themselves of negative emotions prompted by the lingua franca mandate and inadvertently behaved in ways that triggered negative responses in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

December 2010 (Revised March 2013)
Case

Asian Agri and the Future of Palm Oil

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred

For Asian Agri and other Indonesian palm oil producers, the future promised rising demand from fast-growing Asian populations, but also intensifying criticism from environmental groups. With the highest yield and lowest production cost of any edible oil, palm oil... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Natural Environment; Marketing Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Indonesia; Malaysia

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Educators

Purchase

04 Oct 2022
What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports? The several comments on last month’s topic reflect the complexity of the tariff issue, wide differences of responses to the question, and the search for least-worst strategies. Ron Kurtz... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

the right mix between them—the ideal brew needed to achieve sales and market share goals. The trick is that each marketing effort affects consumer behavior in different ways, and also prompts different types of responses from competitors.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

"It's possible to think about this in a global context," says Datar. "If my organization is operating in the United States and in China, that demands a very creative response in organizational structure." View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

the person up the chain be most responsible for whether you have a healthy relationship, but you're equally responsible. If you don't manage that relationship right, your team is not going to be able to do what it needs to do.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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