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Managing Service Operations - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Managing Service Operations Course Number 2120 Professor Ryan Buell Senior Lecturer Robert Markey Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper/Project Service is the business of people... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
Companies spend significant sums to acquire customers. Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Reducing customer attrition, or "churn" in marketing parlance,... View Details
- March 2007
- Teaching Note
Understanding Customer Profitability at Charles Schwab (TN)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Teaching note to 106002. View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
find first—the customer chicken or the service egg? “As a small company you cannot afford to focus on both with the same amount of effort. You may need to prioritize one side.” Preparing to teach a new... View Details
- June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
- Case
Babcom: Opening Doors
By: Ryan W. Buell, Joshua D. Margolis and Margot Eiran
- Web
Research Computing Services - Faculty & Research
Research Services Research Computing Services 9ms Research Computing Services (RCS) is a centralized service dedicated to assisting with faculty... View Details
- 23 Mar 2012
- News
How to Charge a Fee (Without Starting a Customer Rebellion)
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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online
Marketplace Sustainable Pricing The Cost, Market, and Value Lens Designing for Service Excellence Attribute Mapping Featured Exercises Create an attribute map for your organization Build a journey map for a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services
Harris service by early fall. For Ronan McArdle (MBA ’02), secretary of the 80-member HBS Association of Ireland, the Harris service makes club management easier. “It’s an View Details
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Tools & Services | Information Technology
leaders who make a difference in the world. We ’ re here to help you identify and implement flexible and easy-to-use tools that empower you to teach, learn, and work more effectively every day. Browse our services to discover what you can... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
The Impact of Supplier Inventory Service Level on Retailer Demand
By: Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman
To set inventory service levels, suppliers must understand how changes in inventory service level affect demand. We build on prior research, which uses analytical models and laboratory experiments to study the impact of a supplier's service level on demand from... View Details
- 2011
- Teaching Note
The Haidilao Company
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
Haidilao Hot Pot brings customers delightful dining experiences. Like most restaurants, its workforce is mostly composed of young employees born in underdeveloped suburban areas. Instilled with the founder's unique entrepreneurial values, they are enthused and... View Details
- 2008
- Book
Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage
By: James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Joe Wheeler
Hundreds of large organizations worldwide have used the groundbreaking Service Profit Chain to improve business performance. Now The Ownership Quotient reveals the next generation of the chain: customer and employee "owners" of your business. Employee-owners exhibit... View Details
- November 2001 (Revised October 2017)
- Supplement
Store24 (B): Service Quality and Employee Skills
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- June 2012
- Case
Aman Resorts (Abridged)
By: Eugene Soltes and Aldo Sesia
This case describes the operating model and philosophy of this high-end set of global properties. Aman relies on employees taking considerable initiative to deliver the highest quality personalized service in the hospitality industry. The case also highlights Aman's... View Details
Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage
Hundreds of large organizations worldwide have used the groundbreaking Service Profit Chain to improve business... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
components: actionable customer selection criteria (because resources spent on accounts A and B are not available for accounts C, D, and so on); clarity about the buying process for target customers as it... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
commands , you can write a longer customized statement so that only the MAX MEM is output: [jharvard@rhrcscli01:~]$ bjobs -l | grep -E "Application|IDLE|MAX" Job , User , Project , Application , S IDLE_FACTOR(cputime/ runtime): 0.01 MAX... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Working Paper Summaries