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17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

American retailers are heading into a holiday shopping season unlike any other as the spiraling COVID-pandemic and limp economy threaten consumer spending. We asked Harvard Business School faculty members—in particular, authors of recent... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

2016
Working Paper

The Impact of Supplier Inventory Service Level on Retailer Demand

By: Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman

To set inventory service levels, suppliers must understand how changes in inventory service level affect demand. We build on prior research, which uses analytical models and laboratory experiments to study the impact of a supplier's service level on demand from... View Details

Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Forecasting and Prediction; Learning; Consumer Behavior; Service Delivery; Performance Expectations; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Service Industry

March 1979
Background Note

Note on Types of Retail Stores

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi

Keywords: Retail Industry

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June 2021
Technical Note

U.S. Retail Real Estate in 2020

By: José B. Alvarez, Jim Sylvia and David Lane

2000
Working Paper

Estimating Retail Demand and Lost Sales

By: Ananth Raman and Giulio Zotteri

September 1991
Article

Retail Pricing: Does Channel Length Matter

By: R. Lal and Anne Coughlan

Keywords: Price

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March 2011
Case

Seven-Eleven Japan: The Tanpin Kanri Retail Practice

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Carin-Isabel Knoop

This case focuses on Tanpin Kanri, which uses both store-level human knowledge and product information sharing. View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Practice; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Japan

November 1990 (Revised December 1991)
Case

Ahold & AMS: European Retail Synergy Marketing

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Marketing; Retail Industry; Europe

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June 2019 (Revised November 2019)
Supplement

JD: Envisioning the Future of Retail (B)

By: Feng Zhu and Shirley Sun

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

May 1986
Case

U.S. Retail Coffee Market (A), Software Case

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; United States

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Article

Execution: The Missing Link in Retail Operations

By: Ananth Raman, Nicole DeHoratius and Zeynep Ton

Keywords: Sales

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Article

Can Big-Box Retailers Provide Local Health Care?

By: Robert S. Huckman

National retailers, most notably Walmart and Best Buy, are making big bets on their ability to fill this need for local health care. At first glance, these moves are a bit surprising given that these companies have not traditionally been focused on health care... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Local Range; Retail Industry; Retail Industry

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November 1990
Article

Manufacturer Trade Deals and Retail Price Promotions

Keywords: Trade; Sales; Price

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July 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Teaching Note

Flashion: Art vs. Science in Fashion Retailing

By: Kris Ferreira

June 2019
Article

Brokers vs. Retail Investors: Conflicting Interests and Dominated Products

I study how brokers distort household investment decisions. Using a novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests... View Details

Keywords: Brokers; Fiduciary Standard; Consumer Finance; Structured Products; Household; Investment; Decisions; Motivation and Incentives; Conflict of Interests

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July 1991
Supplement

Retail Promotional Pricing: When Is a Sale Really a Sale? (B)

Provides the court's decision in the May D&F case, and updates the controversy surrounding high-low retail pricing. View Details

Keywords: Courts and Trials; Price; Judgments; Retail Industry

2019
Working Paper

Real Exchange Rate Behavior: New Evidence from Matched Retail Goods

By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon

We use a dataset containing daily prices for thousands of matched retail products in nine countries to study tradable-goods real exchange rates. Prices were collected from the websites of large multi-channel retailers and then carefully matched into narrowly-deﬁned... View Details

Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity; Online Prices; Real Exchange Rate; Macroeconomics; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; Internet and the Web

Article

Case Study: Can Retailers Win Back Shoppers Who Browse then Buy Online?

By: Thales S. Teixeira and Sunil Gupta

This case study discusses the options that brick-and-mortar retailers can use to combat the negative consequences of 'showrooming.' View Details

Keywords: Showrooming; E-commerce; Retail Industry

April 2018 (Revised November 2019)
Case

JD: Envisioning the Future of Retail (A)

By: Feng Zhu and Shirley Sun

JD, China’s second largest e-commerce company by gross merchandise volume (GMV) after Alibaba, had expanded rapidly from 2012 to 2016. When the company celebrated its 13th birthday in 2017, Richard Liu, its founder, deliberated on the company’s growth strategies. The... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; E-commerce; Retail Industry; China

June 2001
Teaching Note

Merchandising At Nine West Retail Stores TN

By: Ananth Raman

Teaching Note for (9-698-098). View Details

Keywords: Retail Industry; United States

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