Saravanan Kesavan

University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School

300 Kenan Center Drive

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

United States

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Doing Well By Doing Good: Improving Store Performance with Responsible Scheduling Practices at the Gap, Inc.

Forthcoming in Management Science
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2021
Saravanan Kesavan, Susan Lambert, Joan Williams and Pradeep K. Pendem
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of Chicago, UC Law, San Francisco and University of Oregon
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Field Experiment, Retail Labor, Responsible Operations

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Managing the Impact of Fitting-Room Traffic on Retail Sales: Using Labor to Reduce Phantom Stockouts

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2019
Hyun Seok Lee, Saravanan Kesavan and Vinayak Deshpande
Korea University Business School, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Operations Area
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Retail operations, Empirical research, Field experiments, Phantom stockouts, Fitting-room traffic

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Do High- and Low-Inventory Turnover Retailers Respond Differently to Demand Shocks?

Johnson School Research Paper Series No. 29-2012, UNC Kenan-Flagler Research Paper No. 2013-5
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2013
Saravanan Kesavan, Tarun Kushwaha and Vishal Gaur
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Inventory Turnover, Price Responses, Quantity Response, Demand Shock, Firm Performance, U.S. Retail Industry, Econometric Analyses

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The Predictive Power of Abnormal Inventory Growth: Application to Earnings Forecasting for Retailers

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 25 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2012
Saravanan Kesavan and Vidya Mani
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Operations Area
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Retailing, Econometric Analysis, OM - Accounting Interface

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Intertemporal Pricing with Resellers: An Empirical Study of Product Drops

Number of pages: 96 Posted: 16 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2023
Dayton Steele, Seyed Morteza Emadi and Saravanan Kesavan
University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
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Retail, Structural Modeling, Dynamic Pricing, Resale Marketplaces, Product Drops

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Stable Scheduling Study: Health Outcomes Report

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 24 Mar 2022
Joan Williams, Susan Lambert, Saravanan Kesavan, Rachel Korn, Peter Fugiel, Erin Devorah Carreon, Dylan Bellisle, Meghan Jarpe and Lisa McCorkell
UC Law, San Francisco, University of Chicago, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, UC Law, San Francisco, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations - New Brunswick, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Field Experiment on the Profit Implications of Merchants’ Discretionary Power to Override Data- Driven Decision-Making Tools

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 29 Jun 2020
Saravanan Kesavan and Tarun Kushwaha
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
Downloads 190 (271,143)
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Data-Driven Decision Making, Algorithm-Centered Decision Making, Managerial Discretion/ Exception, Big-Data, Field Experiment, Private Information, Product Life Cycle

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Do Productive Retailers Have Fewer Excess Inventory Announcements?

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Jun 2018
Hyun Seok Lee and Saravanan Kesavan
Korea University Business School and University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
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Empirical research, Excess inventory announcement, Productivity

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Managerial Incentives, Operational Decisions, and Firm Outcomes: Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment at a Retail Chain

Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise Research Paper No. 19-4
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 10 Jun 2018
Saravanan Kesavan, Camelia M. Kuhnen and Hyun Seok Lee
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School & NBER and Korea University Business School
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Incentive, Retail Operations, Empirical, Quasi-Experiment, Difference-in-Differences, Labor Scheduling

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Does Physician's Choice of When to Perform EHR Tasks Influence Total EHR Workload?

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 07 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
Umit Celik, Sandeep Rath, Saravanan Kesavan and Bradley R. Staats
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
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Electronic Health Record (EHR); task-switching; healthcare operations; service operations

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The Influence Mechanism of Customer Review Manipulation on Competitive Pricing Decision-Making: Empirical and Theoretical Analysis

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 21 Oct 2023
Ziwei Zhu, Chenxi Xu, Saravanan Kesavan and Bradley R. Staats
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
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Retailing, fake reviews, pricing, game-theoretic model, customer review manipulation

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Effect of Traffic on Sales and Conversion Rates of Retail Stores

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Forthcoming, Mays Business School Research Paper No. 2011-4
Posted: 06 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2012
Olga Perdikaki, Saravanan Kesavan and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan
University of South Carolina, Darla Moore School of Business, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Operations Area

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Store Performance, Traffic Variability, Traffic Uncertainty, Store Labor Management, Retail Operations

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Do Inventory and Gross Margin Data Improve Sales Forecasts for US Public Retailers?

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 1305304, Johnson School Research Paper Series No. #02-09
Posted: 24 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2012
Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur and Ananth Raman
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit

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Estimating Demand Uncertainty Using Judgmental Forecasts

NYU Working Paper No. OM-2005-08
Posted: 31 Oct 2008
Vishal Gaur, Saravanan Kesavan, Ananth Raman and Marshall Fisher
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department

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