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- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
managers and executives who purposefully address the behavioral issues in demand planning. They see the problem in demand planning in terms of the behavioral dynamics involved rather than, say, as an optimization problem with objective to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
experiments to optimize customer experience—and their own return on investment. “Very few people know they are participants in this massive experimentation ecosystem,” says Thomke. And it’s not just online. Retailers such as Walmart and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
COVID-19 variants snuffed out the brief period of vaccination-injected optimism earlier this year, as childcare and school disruptions lingered. Despite such resistance and health concerns, some employees have joyfully returned to their... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
departments within the firm could query it for answers to questions ranging from optimal pricing to product design. What prevents this from materializing? After all, machine learning is delivering self-driving cars and beating human... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
big-name players in impact investing is an opportunity but also a risk. TPG Rise is defending against that risk by developing a detailed algorithm to forecast and “underwrite” impact using academic evidence. This raises many questions... View Details
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
At the same time, for other tasks, AI will provide useful outputs but will need humans to optimize these outputs and complete tasks successfully. When thinking about "knowledge work," it is especially important to consider that many of... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
sensors can be combined with weather forecasting to help energy companies figure out the optimal amount of electricity they should sell into the grid. “Very little human intervention is needed,” Lal says.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
growing things could play in educating others about indigenous cultures. Now he talks about the intelligence of corn—how it changes color to optimize filtration of ultraviolet light: Soon, he explains, the corn leaves will be tinted a... View Details
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
build products, strategies, teams, and environments for optimal use and performance. The program was developed by leading Harvard Business School faculty and is delivered in an active learning environment based on the HBS signature... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
the level of optimism embedded in their published research. This is exactly what we found. Even more interesting is that the optimism embedded in analysts' forecasts differs... View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
the researchers then developed an efficient multi-product price optimization algorithm to concurrently recommend prices for all products on Rue La La’s site in a given day. Determining optimal pricing Then,... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2020
- News
Decreasing the Wealth Gap
Ray Dalio Ray Dalio As founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, Ray Dalio (MBA 1973) is well known for his ability to forecast the future. Dalio—whose foundation has committed millions of dollars to improving... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We show that characteristics of stock issuers can be used to forecast important common factors in stocks' returns such as those associated with book-to-market, size, and industry.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
In this paper we propose a perceptions framework for categorizing a range of inventory policies, including optimal inventory policies, that can be employed in a single-stage supply chain. The perceptions framework is based on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
working paper, doctoral student Nathan Craig and professor Ananth Raman introduce a dynamic approach for optimizing the profitability of store liquidation that increases net recovery on cost by 2 to 7 percent of assets on hand, an... View Details
- Web
Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Forecast financial performance in the near and long term to guide strategic decision-making Compare organizations’ performance and recognize value... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
time-varying, regularized parameters, and multiplicative errors can make its quantile forecasts more accurate than leading diffusion models, such as the Bass, gamma/shifted-Gompertz, and trapezoid models. Fifth, the model's estimation... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog
ideas in other courses and how they can be applied to address a broad set of business decisions. We will study the optimal design of processes that are key to an organization’s success, including strategic planning, forecasting, capital... View Details