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  • March 2020 (Revised January 2022)
  • Case

Michelin: Building a Digital Service Platform

By: Sunil Gupta and Christian Godwin
Michelin, a tire company with over a century of experience, attempts to develop a digital service platform for its fleet and dealer customers. The case focuses on the challenges of bringing a large, well-established company into the digital age. Concerned about the... View Details
Keywords: Change; Transformation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Leading Change; Growth and Development; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; United States; France
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Gupta, Sunil, and Christian Godwin. "Michelin: Building a Digital Service Platform." Harvard Business School Case 520-061, March 2020. (Revised January 2022.)
  • December 1992 (Revised June 1993)
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ACTC Customer Service Department

Focuses on the young general manager of a new cable TV system and on its customer service department. Jeanne LaFrance, the general manager, has an uneasy feeling about the way in which the department is being managed. She sees symptoms of what she suspects are serious... View Details
Keywords: Management; Problems and Challenges; Planning; Customer Focus and Relationships; Performance Evaluation; Telecommunications Industry
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Roberts, Michael J. "ACTC Customer Service Department." Harvard Business School Case 393-056, December 1992. (Revised June 1993.)
  • August 2010 (Revised September 2010)
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Paradise Travel Advisory Service

By: Paul W. Marshall, Charles Anthony Miller and Collins Pettus Ward
New managers in a troubled company are faced with developing and implementing a plan to increase revenue in a travel service business. View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Borrowing and Debt; Revenue; Problems and Challenges; Travel Industry
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Marshall, Paul W., Charles Anthony Miller, and Collins Pettus Ward. "Paradise Travel Advisory Service." Harvard Business School Case 811-020, August 2010. (Revised September 2010.)
  • April 2003 (Revised October 2003)
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Leading Public Professional Service Organizations

By: Ashish Nanda
Public professional service organizations (PPSOs) are professional service organizations that serve the public. This case describes the unique challenges facing PPSO leaders. View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Service Industry
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Nanda, Ashish. "Leading Public Professional Service Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 903-123, April 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

industries remain infinitely focused on creating and selling the next generation of our fast changing technologies, and thus we have not taken the time, effort, or collective resolve to develop a set of industry-wide electronic business... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
  • July 2002 (Revised March 2003)
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North East Medical Services

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Wendy Carter
Sophie Wong, president and CEO of North East Medical Services, a health care organization dedicated to serving the underprivileged Asian American community in San Francisco, must decide how to reposition the organization to serve patients from multiple income levels... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Human Resources; Leadership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Health Industry; San Francisco
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DeLong, Thomas J., and Wendy Carter. "North East Medical Services." Harvard Business School Case 403-002, July 2002. (Revised March 2003.)
  • October 1987 (Revised March 1992)
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United Parcel Service (A)

United Parcel Service (UPS) in 1987 faced serious challenges to its long-standing policies of on-the-job training and promotion from within. Increased competition in its traditional business of ground transport found UPS lagging in computerization and in need of... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Service Industry; United States
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Sonnenfeld, Jeffrey A. "United Parcel Service (A)." Harvard Business School Case 488-016, October 1987. (Revised March 1992.)
  • April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
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Prodigy Services Company (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine
Top executives of Prodigy Services Co. must decide how to respond when publicly accused of allowing anti-Semitic messages to be posted on the electronic bulletin boards of the company's interactive computer service. Can they defend free expression while at the same... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Communication Intention and Meaning; Information Technology; Decision Making; Law; Management Teams; Information Technology Industry
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Paine, Lynn S. "Prodigy Services Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 393-126, April 1993. (Revised May 1994.)
  • 01 Feb 2002
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Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty

As Time magazine's national political correspondent, Karen Tumulty counts among her confidants some of the country's most powerful and influential people. But that doesn't mean she's forgotten her days at the San Antonio Light, where she started her career in... View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services
  • December 2002
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Tyrell Web Developers, Inc. (A) and (B) (TN)

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Andrew P. McAfee
Teaching Note for (9-600-025) and (9-600-026). View Details
Keywords: Information Technology Industry
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MacCormack, Alan D., and Andrew P. McAfee. "Tyrell Web Developers, Inc. (A) and (B) (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 603-037, December 2002.
  • 2014
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Changhong: Journey to Shared Services

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Haiyan Zhang and Guo Jia
Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Mianyang - an emerging inland science and technology city in Sichuan Province, Changhong Electric Co., Ltd., started from the military industry. It then entered the color TV industry and subsequently expanded to a wide range of... View Details
Keywords: China; Appliances; Finance & Insurance; China
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Haiyan Zhang, and Guo Jia. "Changhong: Journey to Shared Services." Tsinghua University Case, 2014.
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You've Got Mail! The Late 19th-Century U.S. Postal Service Expansion, Firm Creation, and Firm Performance

By: Astrid Marinoni and Maria P. Roche
This paper examines the impact of the expansion of the US Postal Service in the late 19th century on firm creation and performance. Utilizing newly digitized archival data on historic business establishments, post office locations, and road networks in California,... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Innovation; Knowledge Exchange; US Postal Service; Firm Performance; Infrastructure; Expansion; Government Administration; Communication; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Public Administration Industry; California
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Marinoni, Astrid, and Maria P. Roche. "You've Got Mail! The Late 19th-Century U.S. Postal Service Expansion, Firm Creation, and Firm Performance." Management Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online January 15, 2025.)
  • October 2008 (Revised October 2009)
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Blink: The European Air-Taxi Service

By: William A. Sahlman and Jackie Donnelly Russell
This case describes a new venture that is about to launch a Pan-European air-taxi service in 2008. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Capital; Financing and Loans; Product Launch; Air Transportation Industry; Europe
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Sahlman, William A., and Jackie Donnelly Russell. "Blink: The European Air-Taxi Service." Harvard Business School Case 809-058, October 2008. (Revised October 2009.)
  • June 1998 (Revised August 2001)
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Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (A)

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Nicole Tempest
Wells Fargo, the industry leader in electronic banking, has implemented a Balanced Scorecard in its online financial services group (OFS) to track and measure performance. The OFS group develops and supports services that allow existing and future banking customers to... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Internet and the Web; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Finance; Change; Situation or Environment; Measurement and Metrics; Banking Industry; Banking Industry
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Kaplan, Robert S., and Nicole Tempest. "Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (A)." Harvard Business School Case 198-146, June 1998. (Revised August 2001.)
  • 16 Jul 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti; Web Services; Web Services
  • September 1998 (Revised May 1999)
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Strategic Services at Andersen Consulting

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Catherine M. Conneely and Abby J. Hansen PHD
Bill Copacino, Andersen Consulting's managing partner of Strategic Services Americas, needed to submit his recommendation to Peter Fuchs, Strategic Services worldwide director, for the operating plan for Strategic Services Americas for fiscal year 1999. Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Recruitment; Organizational Culture; Expansion; Business Units; Consulting Industry
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DeLong, Thomas J., Catherine M. Conneely, and Abby J. Hansen PHD. "Strategic Services at Andersen Consulting." Harvard Business School Case 899-065, September 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
  • 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7

a routine part of most people's lives, there is no doubt that technology - especially Internet technology - is having a huge impact on the financial services industry. With much hype and headlines, Web... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • October 2004 (Revised March 2006)
  • Background Note

Compensation in Professional Service Firms

By: Ashish Nanda
Discusses the compensation of professionals--partners and nonpartners--in a professional services firm. Discusses the considerations that determine the choice of compensation systems and the interrelationship between compensation and other human resources management... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry
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Nanda, Ashish, and Lauren Prusiner. "Compensation in Professional Service Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 905-039, October 2004. (Revised March 2006.)
  • May 1999 (Revised March 2001)
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Marshall Industries

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
Confounding predictions that the Internet would "disintermediate" commerce, making "middle man" companies all but obsolete, Marshall Industries, a leading electronics distributor, used the Internet and digital technologies to reinvent itself. Marshall continued to sell... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Supply Chain; Emerging Markets; Customer Focus and Relationships; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry
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Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Cathy Olofson. "Marshall Industries." Harvard Business School Case 899-239, May 1999. (Revised March 2001.)
  • June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
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YAAS's Service Center (B)

By: Brian Hall and Sara del Nido
This case is about a compensation change at an automotive service company in the Middle East. The case allows investigation and analysis of many issues related to compensation design and human resource management, and even change management. The focus of the case is... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Emotions; Values; Human Resources; Labor; Negotiation; Organizations; Social Psychology; Value Creation; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Kuwait; Middle East
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Hall, Brian, and Sara del Nido. "YAAS's Service Center (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-050, June 2014. (Revised January 2017.)
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