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- April 2008
- Teaching Note
Forecasting the Adoption of E-books (TN)
By: Elie Ofek
Teaching Note for [505063].
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
Building on the success of last year's inaugural conference, the HBS European Club hosted the second annual Europe Business Conference on the HBS campus November 2-3. The event included some 50 panelists and speakers and drew over 350 participants from HBS and other...
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- 13 Apr 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Incorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting
- May 1981
- Supplement
Stride Rite: Demand Forecasting Process (B)
Schleifer, Arthur, Jr. "Stride Rite: Demand Forecasting Process (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 181-123, May 1981.
- September 2010
- Article
Do Inventory and Gross Margin Data Improve Sales Forecasts for U.S. Public Retailers?
By: Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur and Ananth Raman
Firm-level sales forecasts for retailers can be improved if we incorporate cost of goods sold, inventory, and gross margin (defined here as the ratio of sales to cost of goods sold) as three endogenous variables. We construct a simultaneous equations model, estimated...
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Keywords:
Sales;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Distribution;
Goods and Commodities;
Cost;
Public Sector;
Profit;
Mathematical Methods;
Data and Data Sets;
Retail Industry;
United States
Kesavan, Saravanan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman. "Do Inventory and Gross Margin Data Improve Sales Forecasts for U.S. Public Retailers?" Management Science 56, no. 9 (September 2010).
- Article
Bringing Probability Judgments into Policy Debates via Forecasting Tournaments
By: Philip E. Tetlock, Barbara A. Mellers and J. Peter Scoblic
Political debates often suffer from vague-verbiage predictions that make it difficult to assess accuracy and improve policy. A tournament sponsored by the U.S. intelligence community revealed ways in which forecasters can better use probability estimates to make...
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Keywords:
Tournaments;
Politics;
Depolarization;
Knowledge Creation;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Government and Politics
Tetlock, Philip E., Barbara A. Mellers, and J. Peter Scoblic. "Bringing Probability Judgments into Policy Debates via Forecasting Tournaments." Science 355, no. 6324 (February 3, 2017): 481–483.
- fall 2007
- Article
Estimating Demand Uncertainty Using Judgmental Forecasts
By: Vishal Gaur, Saravanan Kesavan, Ananth Raman and Marshall L. Fisher
Gaur, Vishal, Saravanan Kesavan, Ananth Raman, and Marshall L. Fisher. "Estimating Demand Uncertainty Using Judgmental Forecasts." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 9, no. 4 (fall 2007).
- 2024
- Working Paper
Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions
We investigate whether corporate officers should grant managers discretion to override AI-driven demand forecasts and labor scheduling tools. Analyzing five years of administrative data from a large grocery retailer using such an AI tool, encompassing over 500 stores,...
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Keywords:
AI and Machine Learning;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Working Conditions;
Performance Productivity
Kwon, Caleb, Ananth Raman, and Jorge Tamayo. "Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions." Working Paper, April 2024.
- May 2007
- Case
Demand and Supply Forecasting at Air Products - Electronics Specialty Materials
Explores the process and inputs behind financial and operational forecasting in the Electronic Specialty Materials unit at Air Products and Chemicals, a global chemical company. The protagonist, John Goldberg, grapples with how to better integrate the two forecasting...
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Keywords:
Demand and Consumers;
Operations;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Supply and Industry;
Finance;
Chemical Industry
Kulp, Susan L., Taylor Randall, Shoshanah Cohen, and Zahra Kanji. "Demand and Supply Forecasting at Air Products - Electronics Specialty Materials." Harvard Business School Case 107-018, May 2007.
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Political Forecasting as a Management Tool
By: James E. Austin and David Yoffie
Keywords:
Forecasting and Prediction;
Government and Politics;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
Austin, James E., and David Yoffie. "Political Forecasting as a Management Tool." Journal of Forecasting 3, no. 4 (October–December 1984).
- October 1979 (Revised December 1981)
- Case
Olympia Brewing Co.: Market Forecasting (C)
Reibstein, David J., and George S. Yip. "Olympia Brewing Co.: Market Forecasting (C)." Harvard Business School Case 580-029, October 1979. (Revised December 1981.)
- 15 Apr 2019
- News
How Companies Should Prepare Their Forecasts
- Research Summary
Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)
Conducting research on new management concepts in supply chain management like CPFR. Identifying best practices in the nine-step-CPFR process. Major differences in CPFR-implementation in the U.S., Europe, South America, Asia and Africa.Linking e-marketplaces in the...
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- October 1979 (Revised December 1981)
- Case
Olympia Brewing Co.: Market Forecasting (B)
Reibstein, David J., and George S. Yip. "Olympia Brewing Co.: Market Forecasting (B)." Harvard Business School Case 580-028, October 1979. (Revised December 1981.)
- 28 Nov 2009
- News
The Flaws in Holiday Sales Forecasts
- 23 Oct 2014
- News
Forecasting the Future of the Cloud
- Winter 2016
- Article
Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization
By: Kris J. Ferreira, Bin Hong Alex Lee and David Simchi-Levi
We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an example of how a retailer can use its wealth of data to optimize pricing decisions on a daily basis. Rue La La is in the online fashion sample sales industry, where they offer extremely limited-time...
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Ferreira, Kris J., Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi. "Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 18, no. 1 (Winter 2016): 69–88.
- February 2024
- Supplement
Data-Driven Denim: Financial Forecasting at Levi Strauss: Exhibits
By: Mark Egan
- 24 Sep 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
CEO and CFO Career Penalties to Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts
- January 1977 (Revised July 1985)
- Case
Perkin-Elmer Instrument Division: Plans and Forecasts (Revised)
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Perkin-Elmer Instrument Division: Plans and Forecasts (Revised)." Harvard Business School Case 677-150, January 1977. (Revised July 1985.)