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- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2010
- Chapter
Cost Structure Patterns in the Asset Management Industry
By: Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei
This chapter examines patterns in the cost structure of asset management firms and establishes two important trends in cost behavior. First, when revenues are growing, "indirect" costs related to sales, distribution, marketing, personnel, technology, and occupancy are... View Details
- March 2006 (Revised April 2008)
- Teaching Note
Store24 (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Keywords: Retail Industry
- April 2002 (Revised March 2006)
- Background Note
Economics of Retail Banking Note
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Explains the financial operations of retail banking, highlighting profitability challenges facing the industry. For U.S. banks, it is quite common for more than half of the customer base to be unprofitable and to have relatively few customers make up the vast majority... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Economics; Cost; Banks and Banking; Profit; Revenue; Service Operations; Banking Industry; United States
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Economics of Retail Banking Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 602-153, April 2002. (Revised March 2006.)
- November 2001 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
GuestFirst Hotel (A): Customer Loyalty
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Provides a hotel context in which to explore the link between customer loyalty and financial performance, using four years of hotel data. Challenges students to find the extent of the relationship between loyalty and performance. View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Mathematical Methods; Finance; Performance; Relationships; Customer Focus and Relationships; Data and Data Sets; Accommodations Industry
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "GuestFirst Hotel (A): Customer Loyalty." Harvard Business School Case 602-099, November 2001. (Revised October 2017.)
- November 2001 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
BigEast Bank (A): Credit Card Approval
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
BigEast is considering adopting a relationship-centric view in its credit card approval process. This would shift the bank's current practice of analyzing applications based on the merits of a single product to one where the customer's existing relationship is... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Forecasting and Prediction; Banks and Banking; Analytics and Data Science; Managerial Roles; Relationships; Adoption; Banking Industry
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "BigEast Bank (A): Credit Card Approval." Harvard Business School Case 602-098, November 2001. (Revised August 2005.)
- October 2001 (Revised October 2017)
- Supplement
Pilgrim Bank (C): Electronic Billpay
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Pilgrim Bank (C): Electronic Billpay." Harvard Business School Supplement 602-103, October 2001. (Revised October 2017.)
- Article
The Cost Structure, Customer Profitability, and Retention Implications of Self-Service Distribution Channels: Evidence from Customer Behavior in an Online Banking Channel
By: Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei
This paper uses the context of online banking to investigate the consequences of employing self-service distribution channels to alter customer interactions with the firm. Using a sample of retail banking customers observed over a 30-month period at a large U.S. bank,... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Service Operations; Distribution Channels; Consumer Behavior; Internet and the Web; Banks and Banking; Technology Adoption; Service Delivery; Market Transactions; Market Participation; Profit; Retail Industry; Banking Industry; United States
Campbell, Dennis, and Frances X. Frei. "The Cost Structure, Customer Profitability, and Retention Implications of Self-Service Distribution Channels: Evidence from Customer Behavior in an Online Banking Channel." Management Science 56, no. 1 (January 2010): 4–24. (Lead Article.)
- November 2004
- Article
The Persistence of Customer Profitability: Empirical Evidence and Implications from a Financial Services Firm
By: Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei
Keywords: Customers; Markets; Information; Finance; Business Ventures; Profit; Financial Services Industry
Campbell, Dennis, and Frances X. Frei. "The Persistence of Customer Profitability: Empirical Evidence and Implications from a Financial Services Firm." Journal of Service Research 7, no. 2 (November 2004).
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 2008
- Teaching Note
Managing Service Operations: The Managerial Research Design Process
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
- April 2006
- Background Note
Informing Service Management with Customer Data
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Taught as the third module in a Harvard Business School course on Managing Service Operations. Explores the role of data analysis in ongoing service management. Describes how to realize the maximum amount of value from analyses and use this information in... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Design; Analytics and Data Science; Service Operations; Mathematical Methods; Value
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Informing Service Management with Customer Data." Harvard Business School Background Note 606-097, April 2006.
- February 2005 (Revised November 2006)
- Background Note
Using Data Desk for Statistical Analysis
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Describes how to use the Data Desk software package to perform statistical analysis. View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Using Data Desk for Statistical Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 605-060, February 2005. (Revised November 2006.)
- September 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
G.G. Toys
By: Dennis Campbell and Susan L. Kulp
This case highlights issues of management accounting and includes a review of product costing, excess capacity, variance analysis, and scrap costs. View Details
Campbell, Dennis, and Susan L. Kulp. "G.G. Toys." Harvard Business School Case 105-005, September 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
- November 2001 (Revised October 2017)
- Supplement
GuestFirst Hotel (B): Taking Advantage of Panel Data
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Accommodations Industry
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "GuestFirst Hotel (B): Taking Advantage of Panel Data." Harvard Business School Supplement 602-111, November 2001. (Revised October 2017.)
- October 2001 (Revised October 2017)
- Supplement
Pilgrim Bank (B): Customer Retention
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Pilgrim Bank (B): Customer Retention." Harvard Business School Supplement 602-095, October 2001. (Revised October 2017.)
- February 2011
- Supplement
Dataset for "Slots, Tables, and All That Jazz: Managing Customer Profitability at the MGM Grand Hotel" (CW)
By: Dennis Campbell and Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Datasets of gaming and hotel customers to perform analysis for the case. View Details
- April 2007 (Revised April 2011)
- Teaching Note
Slots, Tables, and All that Jazz: Managing Customer Profitability at the MGM Grand Hotel (TN)
By: Dennis Campbell and Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Teaching note to 106029. View Details
- December 2022 (Revised October 2023)
- Supplement
KKR at CHI Overhead Doors (B)
By: Dennis W. Campbell and Ethan Rouen
Campbell, Dennis W., and Ethan Rouen. "KKR at CHI Overhead Doors (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 123-020, December 2022. (Revised October 2023.)
- January 2008 (Revised April 2008)
- Teaching Note
Pilgrim Bank (C): Electronic Billpay (TN)
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Teaching Note for [602103]. View Details