Filter Results
:
(405)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(563)
- News (88)
- Research (405)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (259)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(563)
- News (88)
- Research (405)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (259)
Sort by
- September 1975 (Revised December 1976)
- Background Note
Note on Inventory Planning
Miller, Jeffrey G. "Note on Inventory Planning." Harvard Business School Background Note 676-048, September 1975. (Revised December 1976.)
- Research Summary
Incorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting.
Forecasting firm-level sales is a key activity in top-down planning in most organizations. In the retailing industry, firms can use inventory and price to stimulate demand. Hence, standard time series methods for sales forecasting can be improved by incorporating...
View Details
- 26 Jun 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World
- Article
Integration of Online and Offline Channels in Retail: The Impact of Sharing Reliable Inventory Availability Information
By: Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno
Using a proprietary data set, we analyze the impact of the implementation of a “buy-online, pick-up-in-store” (BOPS) project. The implementation of this project is associated with a reduction in online sales and an increase in store sales and traffic. These results can...
View Details
Keywords:
Retail Operations;
Inventory Availability;
Empirical Operations Management;
Business Analytics;
Online Retail;
Ecommerce;
Operations;
Management;
Distribution Channels;
Consumer Behavior;
E-commerce;
Retail Industry
Gallino, Santiago, and Antonio Moreno. "Integration of Online and Offline Channels in Retail: The Impact of Sharing Reliable Inventory Availability Information." Management Science 60, no. 6 (June 2014): 1434–1451. (Finalist of Management Science Best Paper award in Operations Management.)
- 05 Jul 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?
those days, there was fascination with air freight and the trade-off of inventory and transportation costs—as in spending more for air transport in order to spend less on owning inventory, thereby optimizing what we called the “total cost...
View Details
- May 1985
- Background Note
Inventory Pricing and Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords:
Price
Hawkins, David F. "Inventory Pricing and Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 185-009, May 1985.
- 1996
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Business Career Interest Inventory
By: Timothy Butler and James Waldroop
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
inventory needs. Take, for example, a large American manufacturer of men's blazers. As part of our research into lean retailing, we tracked the demand for different sizes of a blue blazer. Far from a trendy fashion item, the blue blazer...
View Details
- 13 Apr 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Incorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting
- Article
The Cyclical Behavior of Strategic Inventories
By: J. J. Rotemberg and Garth Saloner
Rotemberg, J. J., and Garth Saloner. "The Cyclical Behavior of Strategic Inventories." Quarterly Journal of Economics 104, no. 1 (February 1989): 73–98.
- April 1982
- Background Note
Note on Kanban and Just-In-Time Inventory Systems
By: Kim B. Clark
Keywords:
Asset Management
Clark, Kim B. "Note on Kanban and Just-In-Time Inventory Systems." Harvard Business School Background Note 682-094, April 1982.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World
By: Karthik Balasubramanian, David F. Drake and Douglas Fearing
Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to transfer money electronically. Mobile money agents exchange cash for electronic value...
View Details
Balasubramanian, Karthik, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing. "Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-109, June 2017. (Presented at INFORMS 2015 and POMS 2016. Finalist and first runner up, Production and Operations Management College of Sustainable Operations Best Student Paper Award.)
- 2001
- Other Unpublished Work
Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis
By: Nicole DeHoratius and A. Raman
- 1989
- Article
The Creative Environment Scales: The Work Environment Inventory
By: T. M. Amabile and N. Gryskiewicz
The Creative Environment Scales Work Environment Inventory (WEI) is a new paper-and-pencil instrument designed to assess stimulants and obstacles to creativity in the work environment. Unlike many instruments that are designed as comprehensive descriptions of the work...
View Details
Keywords:
Creativity;
Innovation and Invention;
Working Conditions;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
Amabile, T. M., and N. Gryskiewicz. "The Creative Environment Scales: The Work Environment Inventory." Creativity Research Journal 2 (1989): 231–254.
- March 1983 (Revised December 1983)
- Background Note
A Note on Production Inventories
Introduction to basic notions of EDQ, reorder points, periodic review systems, and ABC Analysis.
View Details
Maister, David H. "A Note on Production Inventories." Harvard Business School Background Note 683-065, March 1983. (Revised December 1983.)
- October 1992 (Revised September 1993)
- Case
L.L. Bean, Inc.: Item Forecasting and Inventory Management
L.L. Bean must make stocking decisions on thousands of items sold through its catalogs. In many cases, orders must be placed with vendors twelve or more weeks before a catalog lands on a customer's doorstep, and commitments cannot be changed thereafter. As a result,...
View Details
Keywords:
Forecasting and Prediction;
Risk Management;
Cost Management;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Demand and Consumers;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Retail Industry;
United States
Schleifer, Arthur, Jr. "L.L. Bean, Inc.: Item Forecasting and Inventory Management." Harvard Business School Case 893-003, October 1992. (Revised September 1993.)
- 2007
- Other Unpublished Work
Effects of Inventory on Demand for Rentals in the Home Video Market
By: Ioannis Ioannou, Julie Mortimer and Richard Mortimer
Retailer inventory decisions can greatly influence observed demand for a product by affecting, among other things, product availability (stock-outs) and product visibility in the store. These inventory decisions are affected by numerous factors including vertical...
View Details
- Fall 2016
- Article
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:
Demand and Consumers;
Service Delivery;
Supply Chain;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Retail Industry
Craig, Nathan, Nicole DeHoratius, and Ananth Raman. "The Impact of Supplier Inventory Service Level on Retailer Demand." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 18, no. 4 (Fall 2016): 461–474.
- Article
Disequilibrium Dynamics with Inventories and Anticipatory Price-Setting
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Disequilibrium Dynamics with Inventories and Anticipatory Price-Setting." European Economic Review 16, no. 1 (1981): 199–221.