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  • 18 Dec 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality

Keywords: by Alvin J. Silk & Charles King III; Advertising
  • 01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

Denmark known as Bjergsen. Several thousand people are watching him play LoL, as the game is known, right now on the streaming service Twitch, and tens of thousands more will watch the video of the game later. To guarantee that Bjerg, a... View Details
Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
  • September 2018
  • Article

Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services

By: Maria Ibanez, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
Work-scheduling research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize similar tasks... View Details
Keywords: Discretion; Scheduling; Queue; Healthcare; Learning; Experience; Decentralization; Operations; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Decisions; Time Management; Cost vs Benefits; Health Industry
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Ibanez, Maria, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R. Staats. "Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services." Management Science 64, no. 9 (September 2018): 4389–4407. (Working paper available here. Winner of the 2017 Best Paper Competition of the POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management. Featured in Forbes, Quartz, and Inc.)
  • 01 Sep 2017
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A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry

to sit down, work, use Wi-Fi.” He unabashedly cites a “Starbucks-like feel” as the objective, although some essential parts of that experience may take even longer to develop than a taste for coffee. It’s unusual in Nigeria to offer only counter View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; cafe; Cafe Neo; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Oct 1996
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"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

the newest member of the Service Management unit, joined the faculty last year. In research that covers human resources and operations management, she has studied the impact of processes on organizations. Gittell is currently using the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • March 2013 (Revised October 2013)
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Growing Integrated Services at Jones Lang LaSalle (2008) (C)

By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri
This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced between 2005 and 2008. Having dismantled its long-standing service-line-oriented structure, JLL created two interdependent groups: Accounts and Markets. Accounts housed... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Strategy; Integration; Real Estate Industry; North America; South America; Central America
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Gulati, Ranjay, and Luciana Silvestri. "Growing Integrated Services at Jones Lang LaSalle (2008) (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 113-116, March 2013. (Revised October 2013.)
  • 2003
  • Casebook

Professional Services: Text and Cases

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Ashish Nanda
DeLong and Nanda's Professional Services: Text and Cases is the first casebook to be published on the management of professional service firms (law firms, architecture, financial services, consulting). It includes a comprehensive selection of case studies that... View Details
Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Management; Cases
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DeLong, Thomas J., and Ashish Nanda. Professional Services: Text and Cases. New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2003.
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Cooks Make Tastier Food When They Can See Their Customers

By: Ryan W. Buell, Tami Kim and Chia-Jung Tsay
While existing theory suggests that increased contact between customers and employees diminishes efficiency, recent research demonstrates that when employees can see their customers, the beneficiaries of their efforts, the quality and efficiency of the service they... View Details
Keywords: Operational Transparency; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Service Management; Service Industry
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Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and Chia-Jung Tsay. "Cooks Make Tastier Food When They Can See Their Customers." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 11 (November 2014): 34–35.
  • April 1990 (Revised November 1992)
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Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin
Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Developing Countries and Economies; Information Publishing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Agreements and Arrangements; Product; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Bangladesh; Washington (state, US)
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Austin, James E. "Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 590-061, April 1990. (Revised November 1992.)
  • June 1992
  • Teaching Note

Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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Herzlinger, Regina E. "Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 192-133, June 1992.
  • June 2006 (Revised March 2013)
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Phase Zero: Introducing New Services at IDEO (B)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Kathryn S. Roloff
Keywords: Consulting Industry
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Edmondson, Amy C., and Kathryn S. Roloff. "Phase Zero: Introducing New Services at IDEO (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 606-123, June 2006. (Revised March 2013.)
  • September 2000
  • Teaching Note

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Client Services (TN)

By: Thomas J. DeLong
Teaching Note for (9-899-107). View Details
Keywords: Retail Industry
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DeLong, Thomas J. "Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Client Services (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 801-135, September 2000.
  • July 2008 (Revised December 2011)
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ghSMART & Co., 2006: Pioneering in Professional Services

By: Noam T. Wasserman and Ashraf Haque
Geoff Smart, founder and CEO of ghSMART & Co., wanted to build ghSMART into the #1 management-assessment firm for CEOs and investors. However, he had just received two pieces of very bad news: the demise of an existing project and the loss of a $1 million engagement he... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Service Industry
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Wasserman, Noam T., and Ashraf Haque. "ghSMART & Co., 2006: Pioneering in Professional Services." Harvard Business School Case 809-024, July 2008. (Revised December 2011.)
  • 1990
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Service Breakthroughs: Changing the Rules of the Game

By: J. Heskett, C. Hart and W. E. Sasser Jr.
Keywords: Change; Service Industry
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Heskett, J., C. Hart, and W. E. Sasser Jr. Service Breakthroughs: Changing the Rules of the Game. NY: Free Press, 1990.
  • April 2006
  • Teaching Note

Stephen Brown at John Hancock Financial Services (TN)

By: Robin J. Ely
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
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Ely, Robin J. "Stephen Brown at John Hancock Financial Services (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 406-100, April 2006.
  • April 1993 (Revised May 2009)
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Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight, The

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
Starting as a modest 20-bed hospital, Aravind had grown into a 1,400-bed hospital complex by 1992. It had by then screened 3.65 million patients and performed 335,000 cataract surgeries, nearly 70% of them free of cost for the poorest of India's blind population.... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Social Marketing; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Welfare; Expansion; Health Industry; India
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Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight, The." Harvard Business School Case 593-098, April 1993. (Revised May 2009.)
  • 2017
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Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services

By: Maria Ibanez, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
Work scheduling research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize similar tasks... View Details
Keywords: Discretion; Scheduling; Queue; Healthcare; Learning; Experience; Decentralization; Delegation; Behavioral Operations; Operations; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Decisions; Time Management; Cost vs Benefits; Health Industry
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Ibanez, Maria, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R. Staats. "Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-051, October 2015. (Revised March 2017.)
  • 2006
  • Chapter

Consumer-Driven Healthcare: Transforming the Delivery of Health Services

By: R. E. Herzlinger
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Demand and Consumers; Health Industry
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Herzlinger, R. E. "Consumer-Driven Healthcare: Transforming the Delivery of Health Services." In Futurescan: Healthcare Trends and Implications, 2006 2011, 13–20. Health Administration Press, 2006.
  • June 1988 (Revised February 1989)
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Amalgamated Aluminum Pigments Division: The Technical Service Conundrum

By: Benson P. Shapiro
Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Manufacturing Industry
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Shapiro, Benson P. "Amalgamated Aluminum Pigments Division: The Technical Service Conundrum." Harvard Business School Case 588-078, June 1988. (Revised February 1989.)
  • May 2013
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Transport Corporation of India (C): Dealing with Shortcomings in Service Quality

By: V.G. Narayanan and Saloni Chaturvedi
Transport Corporation of India was a logistics company that provided multi-modal transport solutions to its customers. Set up in 1958, TCI had grown from a 'one man, one truck, one office' set-up to a company with revenues of $400 million in half a century. TCI's... View Details
Keywords: Transportation; Transportation Industry; India
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Narayanan, V.G., and Saloni Chaturvedi. "Transport Corporation of India (C): Dealing with Shortcomings in Service Quality." Harvard Business School Supplement 113-132, May 2013.
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