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- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Paying It Forward
“People find us because everyone has the same problem,” says Malay Kundu (MBA 2003) of his company, StopLift, which is using software and video technology to stop massive losses in retail profits due to theft and checkout fraud. “Retail View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
poor on a commercial basis. Publisher's site: Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis Authors:Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman Periodical:Management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
incentive design impacts store manager behavior and, consequently, retail performance. More specifically, we describe the shift in store manager behavior resulting from a change in incentives which, in part, altered the importance of sales relative to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Lehman Brothers Archives | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
aid provides detailed information about the collection and includes a complete inventory of its contents. The collection is available for use in the de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room. Please contact: specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu to inquire... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
You launched in 2007, and 2008 was one of the worst years ever for retail, so you had a good deal of unsold inventory to offer customers. How did you adapt as the business environment became healthier and you saw a decrease in what was... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
It is important for managers and executives to "help people in the organization understand it's both things working together." "One of our big challenges is simply inventory management," Nuzzo said. "For the last... View Details
- 28 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Sierra Smith Talks Her Fashion Startup Internship
with Catherine on what we determined as the biggest opportunities. This resulted in building an inventory management system and running a seed fundraising effort. What was your favorite part of working for Plan de Ville? The best part of... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 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
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
fun. “We have a lot of challenges, but inventory management is one of our biggest. Even though our wipes are simple and small, there are still several materials that need to be sourced to put it all together—and all of these add... View Details
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
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
win-win situation," Brier declares. "The buyer can get the price he or she wants, and the suppliers -- the airlines or the hotels -- can sell their excess inventory without jeopardizing their retail prices." Priceline currently meets more... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
the complex regulatory environment that governs Indian gaming. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51932 Fall 2016 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Impact of Supplier Inventory Service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory constraints. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the consumer's purchase probability at each price and must learn the mean demand from sales data. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
current iteration, the game still teaches supply chain costs, lead time, and inventory management, but now students order kegs on beloved tablets and other devices. For students, simulations bring material to life, deepen contextual... View Details