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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
How do firms pair workers with managers, and which constraints affect the allocation of labor within the firm? We characterize the sorting pattern of managers to workers in a large readymade garment manufacturer in India and then explore potential drivers of the... View Details
Keywords: Assortative Matching; Productivity; Global Buyers; Readymade Garments; Management; Employees; Performance Productivity
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  • Forthcoming
  • Article

No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
How do firms pair workers with managers, and which constraints affect the allocation of labor within the firm? We characterize the sorting pattern of managers to workers in a large readymade garment manufacturer in India and then explore potential drivers of the... View Details
Keywords: Assortative Matching; Productivity; Global Buyers; Readymade Garments; Labor; Organizational Design; Performance Productivity; Fashion Industry
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  • March 2022
  • Article

Learning to Rank an Assortment of Products

By: Kris Ferreira, Sunanda Parthasarathy and Shreyas Sekar
We consider the product ranking challenge that online retailers face when their customers typically behave as “window shoppers”: they form an impression of the assortment after browsing products ranked in the initial positions and then decide whether to continue... View Details
Keywords: Online Learning; Product Ranking; Assortment Optimization; Learning; Internet and the Web; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; E-commerce
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  • 18 May 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm

Keywords: by Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo; Fashion
  • July–August 2023
  • Article

Demand Learning and Pricing for Varying Assortments

By: Kris Ferreira and Emily Mower
Problem Definition: We consider the problem of demand learning and pricing for retailers who offer assortments of substitutable products that change frequently, e.g., due to limited inventory, perishable or time-sensitive products, or the retailer’s desire to... View Details
Keywords: Experiments; Pricing And Revenue Management; Retailing; Demand Estimation; Pricing Algorithm; Marketing; Price; Demand and Consumers; Mathematical Methods
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  • 2013
  • Dissertation

Firm-to-Firm Matching Along the Global Supply Chain

By: Raluca Dragusanu
This paper examines the matching patterns between buyers and sellers at different stages of the global production chain. I construct a new dataset, which links firm-level information on Indian manufacturing exporters from the CMIE-Prowess database with firm-level... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain; Relationships; Trade; United States; India
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  • May–June 2025
  • Article

Algorithmic Assortment Curation: An Empirical Study of Buybox in Online Marketplaces

By: Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno
Most online sales worldwide take place in marketplaces that connect sellers and buyers. The presence of numerous third-party sellers leads to a proliferation of listings for each product, making it difficult for customers to choose between the available options. Online... View Details
Keywords: Algorithms; Marketplaces; Marketplace Matching; E-commerce; Demand and Consumers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Market Participation; Technology Adoption
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Politics at Work

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Edoardo Teso
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Employees; Prejudice and Bias; Brazil
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  • June 2008
  • Article

The Market for Mergers and the Boundaries of the Firm

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and David Robinson
We relate the property rights theory of the firm to empirical regularities in the market for mergers and acquisitions. We first show that high market-to-book acquirers typically do not purchase low market-to-book targets. Instead, mergers pair together firms with... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Assets; Investment; Property; Mathematical Methods; Boundaries
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  • 25 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

information technology to directly match consumer demand to dispersed production by a collection of factories in China. This method of reaching customers should inspire any business that provides products or services that come from many... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 10 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

the Internet to their overall store model. Much like the story of the frog in the slowly boiling water, they are finding out late in the game that their physical store businesses are fundamentally unsustainable. Given the item assortments... View Details
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
  • Research Summary

Research

The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details

  • 18 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

promoted to vice president and divisional merchandise manager for furniture and decorative supplies. There she had profit and loss responsibility for $350 million and twelve people in an area with poor assortment of merchandise, flat... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

that have not been shipped. This process of reading and reacting to market signals has improved CompUSA's ability to match supply with demand. Finally, book and music retailer Borders Group uses historical sales data to customize the... View Details
Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail
  • 19 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

the workers—something that can be taken away if things get rough. It's part of what's making the company profitable. Too often, retail managers keep their employees dangling and switch their schedules around on short notice because they feel they have to be free to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
  • 18 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

given that they're exchanging what they hope is a boost in demand for sure losses on the logistics side," says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Donald Ngwe. Shipping Fees and Product Assortment in Online Retail explores... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

knowledgeable salespeople with "deep expertise in the categories they served." Against Amazon and other online retailers, these advantages fade. Online retailers have appropriated the strengths of category killers, and can offer wider View Details
Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

digital activities that impact physical realities. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53823 Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, and Joel Goh Abstract—Assortment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55610 Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment By: Ferreira, Kris J., and Joel Goh Abstract— Assortment rotation—the retailing practice of changing the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

talent, they will need to bridge these three gaps. The good news is that the growing assortment of online courses, social and interactive platforms, and learning tools from both traditional institutions and upstarts—which we call the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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