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  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

all in, purchasing inventory at volume up front to enter the market with an abundance of options? Or should the company continue to take pieces on consignment, offering a limited assortment of plates and bowls to test the demands of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 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
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 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
  • 27 Oct 2016
  • News

Paying It Forward

inventory losses by alerting retailers when items are given free-of-charge to friends and family by purposely not being scanned by a clerk (called “sweethearting”), when barcodes are covered, when items are left in a shopping cart, or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley

    Charles D. Tandy

    accounting problems and then secured financing for much needed expansion. Drastically reducing Radio Shack’s store size and streamlining inventory while introducing company-branded products, Tandy’s Radio Shack grew to have more than... View Details
    Keywords: Retail
    • 01 Oct 1998
    • News

    Short Takes

    of deals offered by manufacturers, will not stockpile so much inventory that manufacturers will lose their incentive to offer another deal in the near future. Chun argues that manufacturers lose such inspiration when the market becomes... View Details
    Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
    • 17 Apr 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: April 17, 2007

    confers a significant first-mover advantage. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-063.pdf A Perceptions Framework for Categorizing Inventory Policies in Single-stage Inventory Systems... 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
    • 01 Jun 2002
    • News

    In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data

    The expression “letting the fox guard the henhouse” comes to mind when you first hear about Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) systems, where a product manufacturer actually places orders for the retailer, determining quantities based upon... View Details
    Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
    • Profile

    Jon Schechter

    As an engineer at Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva Systems), Jon Schechter viewed the future, almost literally, from the ground floor. “We worked on fleets of orange robots that move warehouse inventory,” he explains. “They drive underneath the shelves to find and lift... View Details
    Keywords: Tech

      Milton J. Petrie

      Location, location, location. Petrie had a keen sense for “hot real estate” which he used to create a new form of retailing – the women’s specialty store. By focusing on the teen market and insisting on quick inventory turns, he created a... View Details
      Keywords: Retail

        Fred R. Lazarus, Jr.

        Through acquisitions and organic growth, Lazarus, Jr. created the largest department store operation in the United States (including Filene’s, Bloomingdale’s, and Bullocks). Lazarus targeted the middle class through attractive store displays, ample View Details
        Keywords: Retail
        • 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
        Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail
        • 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
        • 07 Dec 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: Dec. 7

        the value of their information intermediation function. The Effect of Product Variety and Inventory Levels on Retail Sales: A Longitudinal Study Author:Zeynep Ton and Ananth Raman Publication:Production and Operations Management 19, no. 5... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 06 May 2015
        • What Do You Think?

        Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

        (postpone) committing inventory to a particular supply point for as long as possible through such things as careful forecasting of demand, rapid manufacture, and fast transport. The other is to invest (speculate) in long but economical... View Details
        Keywords: by James Heskett
        • 19 Nov 2001
        • Research & Ideas

        Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

        amplify as they move up the chain, leading to a counterproductive combination of spiky order patterns and inventory shortages and surpluses. 53 To the extent that the Internet can help reduce information gaps and delays, it can be... View Details
        Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
        • 19 Dec 2016
        • News

        Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground

        restaurants, and neighborhood bakeries in Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and Somerville, Mugford told the Boston Globe. And the experience has been eye-opening. “The projects I’ve worked on for boards took months and months,” said Lia Prendergast (MBA 2017), who worked... View Details
        Keywords: retail

          Academic Excellence

          In both these areas, I have benefited from the extraordinary research environment provided by HBS and Harvard University. The libraries and archives are simply fantastic and exceptionally rich. You only have to spend a few days in the reading rooms, leafing through... View Details