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      • September 2002
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      Abercrombie & Kent

      By: Frances X. Frei, Brian Corbett, Mark Partin and Daniel Rethazy
      Describes Abercrombie & Kent, the outdoor adventure company that has provided services throughout the entire history of the outdoor adventure industry. Provides an opportunity to learn how the company successfully grown into a premier player in the industry by adapting... View Details
      Keywords: History; Financial Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Service Operations; Marketing Reference Programs; Product Development; Business Growth and Maturation; Balance and Stability; Marketing Channels; Transportation; Growth and Development Strategy; Travel Industry
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      Frei, Frances X., Brian Corbett, Mark Partin, and Daniel Rethazy. "Abercrombie & Kent." Harvard Business School Case 603-002, September 2002.
      • July 2002 (Revised October 2002)
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      Taj Hotel Group

      By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
      R.K. Krishna Kumar, managing director and head of Taj Hotel Group, has to decide whether to reexamine a promotion decision. In an attempt to deliver a level of service quality that met global standards at the Indian hotel chain, Kumar had introduced new personnel... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Human Resources; Leadership Development; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Alignment; India
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      DeLong, Thomas J., and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan. "Taj Hotel Group." Harvard Business School Case 403-004, July 2002. (Revised October 2002.)
      • January 2002 (Revised April 2002)
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      Space Data Corporation

      By: Alan D. MacCormack and Jay Wynn
      Space Data Corp. plans to partner with the U.S. National Weather Service to place transceivers on weather balloons and thereby create a national mobile communications network. The company is in the late development stages and is planning to launch a regional test that... View Details
      Keywords: Wireless Technology; Business Startups; Business Processes; Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Telecommunications Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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      MacCormack, Alan D., and Jay Wynn. "Space Data Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 602-121, January 2002. (Revised April 2002.)
      • January 2002 (Revised April 2004)
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      Chapter Enrichment Program Teams at the American Red Cross (A)

      By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Anita Williams Woolley
      The American Red Cross has a system for structuring, staffing, and leading teams to review its local chapters. Mirroring professional services firms that use teams to serve clients, this system provides detailed guidelines to increase individual team member's... View Details
      Keywords: Planning; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Leadership; Organizational Structure
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      Polzer, Jeffrey T., and Anita Williams Woolley. "Chapter Enrichment Program Teams at the American Red Cross (A)." Harvard Business School Case 402-042, January 2002. (Revised April 2004.)
      • December 2001
      • Case

      Cybersettle

      By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
      Cybersettle's management faced a dilemma: How could they turn their company, which provided confidential online settlement services for insurance claims, into a profitable enterprise? Having started during the heady days of Internet "dot-com fever," the company now had... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Process; Conflict and Resolution; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Internet; Insurance Industry
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      Wheeler, Michael A., and Gillian Morris. "Cybersettle." Harvard Business School Case 902-158, December 2001.
      • November 2001 (Revised December 2003)
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      Incentive Pay for Portfolio Managers at Harvard Management Company

      By: Brian J. Hall and Jonathan Lim
      This case describes the compensation system for portfolio managers at Harvard's portfolio management company, including its formulaic and bonus bank features. Harvard Management Co. President Jack Meyer explains the philosophy behind the incentive pay at his company. View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Investment Portfolio; Compensation and Benefits; Financial Services Industry
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      Hall, Brian J., and Jonathan Lim. "Incentive Pay for Portfolio Managers at Harvard Management Company." Harvard Business School Case 902-130, November 2001. (Revised December 2003.)
      • November 2001 (Revised April 2003)
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      Camp Dresser & McKee: Getting Incentives Right

      By: Ashish Nanda
      "If you try to use money to motivate behavior, you are in a powerful and dangerous place, especially with engineers and scientists," remarked Tom Furman, CEO of Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc. (CDM), a consulting environmental engineering firm. Historically, CDM had... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry
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      Nanda, Ashish, and M. Julia Prats. "Camp Dresser & McKee: Getting Incentives Right." Harvard Business School Case 902-122, November 2001. (Revised April 2003.)
      • October 2001 (Revised November 2002)
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      Herman Miller(B): Creating Innovation Streams

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
      In 1997, Mike Volkema faced the difficulty of attempting to revitalize a once dynamic organization. Volkema wondered how he could incorporate advances made within subsidiaries, such as Miller SQA's business model innovation, into the company as a whole while also... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Product Design; Product Development; Product; Supply Chain Management; Business Model; Service Delivery; Customer Value and Value Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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      Sucher, Sandra J., and Stacy McManus. "Herman Miller(B): Creating Innovation Streams." Harvard Business School Case 602-024, October 2001. (Revised November 2002.)
      • May 2001 (Revised May 2015)
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      Compagnie Lyonnaise de Transport (A)

      By: Michael Tushman and Michael J. Roberts
      Describes the issues surrounding the funding of a centralized research service that supports two related divisions. The company has a very decentralized and financially driven culture, and the centralized service is used unequally, setting up a conflict. View Details
      Keywords: Business Divisions; Organizational Culture; Relationships; Conflict Management; Balance and Stability; Transportation Industry; France
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      Tushman, Michael, and Michael J. Roberts. "Compagnie Lyonnaise de Transport (A)." Harvard Business School Case 401-040, May 2001. (Revised May 2015.)
      • March 2001 (Revised July 2002)
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      WingspanBank.com (B): Should This Bird Still Fly?

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
      WingspanBank.com is launched to critical acclaim, but its fate is hardly certain. Bank One's new CEO, Jamie Dimon, must decide what to do with what is now a second Web site for the bank's current and prospective customers. View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Customers; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Complexity; Web Sites; Financial Services Industry
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      Sucher, Sandra J., and Stacy McManus. "WingspanBank.com (B): Should This Bird Still Fly?" Harvard Business School Case 601-071, March 2001. (Revised July 2002.)
      • December 2000 (Revised February 2007)
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      Achieving Customer Satisfaction at Pizza Hut (A)

      By: V.G. Narayanan and Preeti Choudhary
      Describes how Pizza Hut measures and monitors customer satisfaction, customer complaints, and the quality of its retail locations. View Details
      Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Systems; Risk Management; Franchise Ownership; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Service Industry; Service Industry
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      Narayanan, V.G., and Preeti Choudhary. "Achieving Customer Satisfaction at Pizza Hut (A)." Harvard Business School Case 101-006, December 2000. (Revised February 2007.)
      • November 2000
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      Geocast Network Systems, Inc.

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Christina L. Darwall and Elizabeth Kind
      Geocast, a venture-backed start-up, had developed innovative technology for "datacasting" broadband information and entertainment content to an external hard drive, where it was cached for later retrieval by a Web-enabled PC. By using terrestrial TV, direct broadcast... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Customer Value and Value Chain; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Information Management; Technological Innovation; Marketing Channels; Corporate Strategy; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry
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      Eisenmann, Thomas R., Christina L. Darwall, and Elizabeth Kind. "Geocast Network Systems, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 801-211, November 2000.
      • October 2000 (Revised November 2005)
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      Cisco Systems: Web-enablement

      By: Richard L. Nolan, Kelley Porter and Christina Akers
      Describes how Cisco web-enabled their ERP systems and developed the "front office" systems to electronically link to their customers and suppliers. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Service Operations; Information Technology Industry
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      Nolan, Richard L., Kelley Porter, and Christina Akers. "Cisco Systems: Web-enablement." Harvard Business School Case 301-056, October 2000. (Revised November 2005.)
      • September 2000
      • Background Note

      Professional Services Module Five: Serving Clients Effectively

      By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
      It is imperative for the internal systems and processes to be connected to the external processes of client management, competitive adaptation, and service delivery. View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Customer Relationship Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Service Delivery; Performance Effectiveness; Adaptation; Competitive Strategy
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      DeLong, Thomas J., Ashish Nanda, and Scot H. Landry. "Professional Services Module Five: Serving Clients Effectively." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-011, September 2000.
      • August 2000 (Revised September 2000)
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      Extraprise

      By: Srikant M. Datar, Krishna G. Palepu and Sarah S. Khetani
      In the three years since it was founded, the Boston-based Internet strategy consulting firm, Extraprise, has changed its strategy three times. Jennifer Gabler, the CFO, considers what kinds of control systems she can put in place to ensure the company can continue to... View Details
      Keywords: Information Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Mathematical Methods; Information Technology; Outcome or Result; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Boston
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      Datar, Srikant M., Krishna G. Palepu, and Sarah S. Khetani. "Extraprise." Harvard Business School Case 101-001, August 2000. (Revised September 2000.)
      • July 2000 (Revised October 2000)
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      Cisco Systems: Are You Ready? (A)

      By: James L. Heskett and John P. Morgridge
      An Internet service provider, INS, in which Cisco Systems has a minority ownership stake, receives an offer of $3.1 billion from Cisco's rival Lucent. Cisco's management has to decide whether to act on a request from INS management that Cisco make a counteroffer. The... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Ownership Stake; Strategic Planning; Innovation and Management; Technology; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry
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      Heskett, James L., and John P. Morgridge. "Cisco Systems: Are You Ready? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 901-002, July 2000. (Revised October 2000.)
      • June 2000 (Revised July 2000)
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      ORIX KK

      By: Malcolm S. Salter and Andrew Eggers
      Describes the challenges facing a Japanese financial services company as it attempts to maintain its ability to attract and retain talented employees. The CEO's ideas of corporate governance and evidence from the competitive labor environment suggest the need for more... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Geographic Location; Financial Services Industry; Japan
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      Salter, Malcolm S., and Andrew Eggers. "ORIX KK." Harvard Business School Case 800-272, June 2000. (Revised July 2000.)
      • June 2000
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      Lifeline Systems, Inc. (A)

      By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
      Lifeline Systems provides emergency response equipment to the elderly who live at home. The company uses local hospitals to market, sell, and install these units in homes, while the hospital monitors and calls for aid to respond to emergency calls from the elderly... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Sales; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Information Infrastructure; Age; Service Delivery; Restructuring; Crisis Management; Service Industry; Service Industry
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      Bowen, H. Kent, and Marilyn Matis. "Lifeline Systems, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-099, June 2000.
      • February 2000 (Revised November 2000)
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      Women.com

      By: Myra M. Hart and Sarah S. Khetani
      Entrepreneurs Ellen Pack and Marleen McDaniel have founded a women's online network and watched it grow from an online subscription service in 1992 to one of the best known, widely visited women's networks on the web in 1999. While the company's vision has remained... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Partners and Partnerships; Initial Public Offering; Networks; Transition; Web Services Industry
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      Hart, Myra M., and Sarah S. Khetani. "Women.com." Harvard Business School Case 800-216, February 2000. (Revised November 2000.)
      • January 2000 (Revised October 2002)
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      Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network - The Primary Care Unit

      By: V.G. Narayanan, Lisa Brem and Ryan Moore
      The Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network needed to gain a better understanding of its unit-of-service costs, which had been rising at a rate of 10% per year. The network's step-down costing system gave only aggregate costing information, and there was some... View Details
      Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Accounting; Cost; Network Effects; Service Industry; Service Industry; Massachusetts
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      Narayanan, V.G., Lisa Brem, and Ryan Moore. "Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network - The Primary Care Unit." Harvard Business School Case 100-054, January 2000. (Revised October 2002.)
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