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- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
didn't suffer while the Dr. John's team worked out the kinks. The company didn't have a huge war chest, but Osher had raised additional capital after the company's launch in order to pay for additional inventory once the product took off.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
that many. Under the "self-management" initiative, employees were trained and given new technology to enable them to hire, train, and supervise their new colleagues; manage the day-to-day inventory of the store; handle the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
an inventory of the most important shared software and potential vulnerabilities and is the first step to understand more about these projects so that we can create tools and standards that result in trust and transparency in software.”... View Details
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
become an online reseller of used children's clothes, buying inventory from parents and reselling it to other parents. "The problem with the MSP model is that it is sometimes too slow and not sufficiently convenient for either side," says... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
years. Similarly, Digital Equipment Corporation couldn't match the flexibility of the personal computer assemblers' processes, Sears couldn't match the inventory turns and low prices of the discount retailers, and so on. It is important... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
compared the firms' performance over six years. What they found: in the beginning of a relationship, suppliers enjoyed no significant difference in sales, inventory holding and control costs, gross margins, or return on investment. But... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
model. Amazon leverages its higher inventory turns, lower investments in physical assets, and faster cash conversion cycle to deliver up to 20 percent cost savings to the consumer. At a 5 percent price advantage, consumers might not see... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
This results in an overstatement of earnings and cash flows for many companies and an exaggeration of the extent of the good times. Conversely, during the early stages of an economic slowdown, as demand falls below predicted levels and View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
other countries outside China such as Germany and Sweden before local contagion even started, allowing precious time to acquire personal protective equipment before it became scarce. Second, since the company was able to foresee large disruptions in its supply chain,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
inventory at various levels—retailing, wholesale, and manufacturing—in a distribution channel. One objective was to demonstrate the wide swings in inventory levels that resulted when student “managers”... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Retail Inventory: Managing the Canary in the Coal Mine! By: Gaur, Vishal, Saravanan Kesavan, and Ananth Raman Abstract—Retail inventory is a statistic that is closely watched by retailers as well as their investors, lenders, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
forecasting; supply chain speed; inventory planning; and gathering accurate, available data. The following excerpt from their report in the Harvard Business Review shows how some of these companies are making the most of the data... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
and that this difference in construal partly underlies future lock-in. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf A Perceptions Framework for Categorizing Inventory Policies in Single-stage View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
removed costly inventory buffers and produced a huge sucking sound — that of inventories being sucked out of our supply chains. They allow us, for example, to design our own Dell computer and order it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
investment manager Albert Mills takes in the matter of an unusually low U.S. dollar fixed-floating swap spread. He must decide what to do next. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211052-PDF-ENG Scientific Glass, Inc.: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
Working PapersIncorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Abstract As numerous papers have argued, sales, inventory, and gross margin for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
Inevitably the visible hand has a strategy, no matter how implicit, short sighted or incoherent that strategy may be. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-037.pdf A Perceptions Framework for Categorizing Inventory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
climate-controlled vaults. Here's why. Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World Mobile money agents in the developing world face a key inventory management challenge: How much... View Details
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
During the past few years inventory turns among U.S. manufacturers have climbed steadily, and it appears as if productivity has improved nicely. One explanation for these happy trends is that the massive investments we've been making in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
of distribution (more transparency across multiple organizations in inventory management, lower inventory to sales ratios, fewer stockouts, etc.). Just as important was the question of who could lead the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett