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- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?
down from almost $18 billion to $17 billion. That comes out to sales of about $150 per square foot, which is probably in the lower third of department store sales, if not the lowest. In contrast, competitors like Macy's and Kohl's have... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?
To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
to accomplish the following: mine your sales data to identify "homerun" products you're missing; reinvent your forecasting and pricing strategies; build end-to-end agility into your supply chain; establish incentives that align... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
preferred ways. The price of output is a crucial determinant of this choice, since it affects the size of the pecuniary benefits: higher prices lead to more integration. Because tariffs increase domestic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
pay a price because their premiums have to incorporate the risk of getting into an accident with an uncovered driver. Uninsured drivers increase premiums for drivers with insurance by $27 billion annually... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
from Colombia) and against the new Panamanian government (to get a better deal for the Panama Canal). The Colombians wanted to hold out until 1904 to make a deal with the United States to build a canal. The reason was that the properties of the failed French canal... View Details
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Overview
The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
coupon legality. We find that coupons increase branded sales by 60+ percent, entirely by reducing the sales of bioequivalent generics. During the five years following generic entry, we estimate that coupons increase total spending by $30 to $120 million per drug, or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
customers in the East, emerging markets, and growing interest in health and beauty care among men all over the world. Employing both traditional and innovative marketing techniques, L'Oréal worked to double its customer base to two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
distance in some ways, it has grown it in others. As the authors observe, “For example, while information technology may be an effective means of coordinating ongoing projects and collaborations, it may be less effective as a means of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry is the first serious attempt to trace the history of the $330 billion global beauty industry and its large collection of fascinating entrepreneurs through countries including... View Details
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
crucial projects we really need to get done. In fact, when we are distracted from a task, it can take 19 minutes to refocus on what we were doing, according to creativity expert Teresa Amabile, Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
Working PapersLegislating Stock Prices Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Abstract In this paper we demonstrate that legislation has a simple, yet previously undetected impact on firm stock prices. While it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
data scientist at Amazon; and Nils Wernerfelt, an economist at Meta, Facebook’s parent company. In one of the largest studies of its kind, Luca and his coauthors analyzed more than 800 public health advertising campaigns that reached 2.1 View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?
boom. Retail investors—who buy shares directly through websites like Robinhood rather than investment firms or employer-sponsored plans—snapped up stocks that appeared to have poorer prospects under traditional metrics. Remember the online frenzy over GameStop and AMC... View Details
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
of lost hours—as well as the search, hiring, and training costs of filling vacant positions—to arrive at a total price tag for burnout from turnover. A not insignificant number Their final estimate, $4.6 View Details
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
pre-pandemic and why? Kelleher: We averaged six weeks turnaround time on all projects in 2019, 12.5 weeks in 2020, and 27 weeks in 2021. Orders are bigger. If a machine part breaks and it takes us longer to get it, that means we’re down... View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
Recent high-profile financial meltdowns at Bitcoin, Celsius, and Terraform Labs, which together wiped out hundreds of billions in market value, helped trigger a flight from the cryptocurrency market, driving its value from $2.9 trillion... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
projects were pursued with little dialogue with the marketing function. Although Unilever had a strongly networked senior management, the tradition of decentralized authority created in some respects one of the world's least cohesive... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
that marketers began to think of the Web as an advertising medium, U.S. Internet advertisers spent $940 million; a year later, that number had almost doubled, and some put it as high as $4 billion in 1999. Forecasts on what lies ahead are... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young