Filter Results
:
(404)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(562)
- News (91)
- Research (404)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (256)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(562)
- News (91)
- Research (404)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (256)
Sort by
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
efficient for consumers and for GM. First, it would reduce the amount of time customers had to wait for their car to arrive. A car ordered online would take only 15 to 20 days to reach the customer compared to the usual 55 to 60. 79 Customers could also go through the...
View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
John Walson launched the first commercial cable television system in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, an Appalachian town eighty-six miles from Philadelphia. 1,2 Walson worked as a lineman for Pennsylvania Power & Light and also owned a local appliance store, which held...
View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
liquidated include Borders Group in 2012, Circuit City in 2009, and Linens `n Things in 2008; the value of inventory sold during these liquidations alone is $3B. The store liquidation problem is related to but also differs substantially...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
Research and Analysis (CFRA) on companies in the solar industry with a focus on First Solar Inc. In 2009, CFRA was concerned that First Solar, like much of the solar industry, was facing deterioration in business prospects and exposed to risks arising from revenue...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
venture capital would allow RTR to aggressively expand its inventory and customer acquisition efforts, in order serve a broader range of customer segments with a wider selection of products, (e.g., accessories, maternity wear). Purchase...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 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...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Demoulas by his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, and directors affiliated with him set off employee protests throughout the grocery store chain. Industry specialists estimated that Market Basket was losing close to $10 million each day in lost business and View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
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....
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
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...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
that. They make sure they carry enough inventory so you can get that job done immediately. Lighting fixtures, on the other hand, are a different animal. There are hundreds of thousands of options to choose from and generally the need is...
View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
inventory (a proxy for support). Our findings highlight important factors for successful implementations of 360-degree systems as complements to explicit incentives. Finally, we share some lessons learned with respect to performing field...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Abstract—To set inventory service levels, firms must understand how changes in service level affect customer demand. While the effects of service level changes have been studied empirically at the level of the end consumer, relatively...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
under lAS 41 for a European-listed agricultural firm. Students identify the firm's core operations, distinguishing the IFRS treatment for three distinct assets: land, agricultural assets that reside on the land, and inventory harvested...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
chains lengthened by 20% following the collapse of a flagship dealer in 2008 and even more for institutions strongly connected to this dealer. Finally, dealers drastically reduced their inventory during the crisis. Publisher's link:...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
View Details
Keywords:
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...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
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...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
five months-cut defects by half, reduced inventory by 20%, and raised output by 10%. A control group saw no such gains. The authors' global data set suggests that implementing good management at schools and hospitals yields change more...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
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...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne