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  • October 2000 (Revised November 2005)
  • Case

Li & Fung (A): Internet Issues

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Fred Young
This case looks at the issues facing a Hong Kong-based trading company, which links hundreds of factories in India and Asia with major customers like Gap and the Limited in Europe and in the United States. The company has recently launched a dot-com operation to allow... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Multinational Firms and Management; Distribution Channels; Logistics; Networks; Markets; Supply Chain; Retail Industry; Hong Kong; India; Europe; United States
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  • April 2000 (Revised November 2003)
  • Case

H. E. Butt Grocery Company: The New Digital Strategy (A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
Shows how the company's IT priorities have moved from primary supply chain restructuring to e-commerce. Shows the new organization structure created by the company. View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Supply Chain; Technology Adoption; Information Technology; Retail Industry
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  • December 1997 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

www.springs.com

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
Business Week's June 1997 "Rising Star" profile of Springs Industries' president and COO, Crandall Bowles, reported that she was poised to become one of the top two or three women executives in the country. In November 1997, the company announced Bowles' appointment to... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Operations; Product Marketing; Management; Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; South Carolina
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  • August 1997 (Revised May 1999)
  • Case

Providian Trust: Tradition and Technology (B)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
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  • November 1996
  • Case

Desktop Data, Inc. (B)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
Keywords: Information Technology Industry
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  • 12 May 2014
  • News

The Alibaba Effect

  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

president Charles F. Milner, Jr. (MBA '65), also gave welcoming remarks. The conference program, titled "Managing Development: The African Renaissance," officially began the next morning at Cape Town's Nico Milan Theatre. HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

mid-July, the Board delivered its final report to the Dean and Professor Warren McFarlan. I will share their review of the report with you in a subsequent issue of the Bulletin. In the meantime, the Board is fired up for its fall meeting... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • News

Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?

electronics devices to Amazon’s online storefront. HBS would continue to play a role in Amazon’s development, with the article noting that two of Amazon’s earliest acquisitions included local companies founded by Warren Adams (MBA 1998)... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Ferrell (42nd PMD) Greenwich, CT Charles F. Milner, Jr. (MBA '65) Adamstown, PA Heiner Thorborg (12th ISMP) Frankfurt, Germany Chairman, HBS Fund Thomas C. Theobald (MBA '60) Chicago, IL President of the HBS Student Association Ronald P.... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Think Globally, Teach Locally

When HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan moved to Vevey, Switzerland, in 1973, it was his first experience living outside the United States. “I had three degrees from Harvard, and my major lifetime move had... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • September 1995
  • Teaching Note

VeriFone: The Transaction Automation Company (A) TN

By: Donna B. Stoddard and F. Warren McFarlan
Teaching Note for (9-195-088). View Details
Keywords: Information Technology Industry
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  • December 1993
  • Case

Severn Trent Water (B): Reaping the Technology Dividend

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Chris L Marshall
Keywords: Information Technology
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  • March 1989
  • Teaching Note

Philips In-Car Entertainment (A), (B), & (C), and Industry Note: In-Car Entertainment, Teaching Note

By: F. Warren McFarlan and H. Jeff Smith
Keywords: Media; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • July 2005
  • Teaching Note

CareGroup (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Robert D. Austin
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • September 1988
  • Case

Frontier Airlines, Inc. (B) (Condensed)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Duncan G. Copeland
Keywords: Air Transportation Industry
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  • December 2001 (Revised November 2005)
  • Case

Li & Fung (B): Internet Issues

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Iris T. Li
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Retail Industry; Hong Kong; India; Europe; United States
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  • December 2001
  • Case

iSteelAsia-2001

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Iris T. Li
Presents a follow-up one year later. Shows how this online steel distributor has now reached breakeven. Focuses on the new challenges for the future. View Details
Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Economy; Goods and Commodities; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Information; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Problems and Challenges; Steel Industry; China; United States
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  • April 1982
  • Case

Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc.--1980 (A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Gregory L. Parsons
Keywords: Information Management; Information Technology; Banking Industry
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  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

leapfrogged U.S. advances. In this dynamic environment, detailed insights such as those developed by Lane and other HBS scholars are essential to understanding the realities of doing business. They provide what Asia-Pacific Initiative director View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg