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- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
governments had tried to address them. So a congressional panel overlooking the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) called him to report on what successful regulatory reform might look like. “Responding to this request, I took a close look at historical patterns and...
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by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
School Case 314-108 China Vanke: Supplement At China Vanke, the assistant to the Chairman asks whether a business model posted in an online discussion thread correctly explains Vanke's rapid growth over the previous two decades. He uses the post, which emphasized...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
fulfillment that uses centralized inventory management. We ask whether, and if so, how, showrooms benefit the two most basic retail objectives: demand generation and operational efficiency. Using quasi-experimental data on showroom...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
case decisions are 1) what factors are critical to the decision; 2) how to calculate the tradeoffs among transportation costs, inventory costs, and order costs; and 3) how the company's managers should coordinate to make the decision....
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
Kulp, and Taylor Randall Publication:Supply Chain Management Review 11, no. 4 (May/June 2007): 18-74 Abstract The article determines the effectiveness of incentives designed to improve inventory and delivery performance, through the...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
Retailing, supply chain experts Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman explain how to use analytics to better manage your inventory for faster turns, fewer discounted offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies of retailing...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
"option value" by actively seeking out opportunities—lateral and diagonal moves, along with upward movement—that open up career paths not just now but every step forward. Continually mark-to-market yourself by taking inventory of your...
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proliferation, short product life cycles, and global networks of suppliers and customers. Hence, topics not examined in RC TOM such as inventory management, distribution economics, and demand forecasting are explored in SCA. SCA also...
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- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
third-party sellers largely carried inventory costs, the Board had made a drastic decision: Jumia would shift from an online retail model to a marketplace model. They also made it very clear that a failure to properly implement this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
heart surgery. We also kept coming up with shortages when annual inventory was taken and simply could not figure out the problem. This all finally came to a head with a nearly $1 million shrinkage at a time when our profits had sunk due...
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