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- December 2001
- Case
SinoSecurities.com
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Fred Young
Describes a complex software project that has run into difficulties. Students must decide whether to press forward, stop the project, or reconfigure it. Illustrates many of the similarities to challenges facing U.S. and Chinese companies in this difficult arena. View Details
- October 2001
- Teaching Note
Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice (Abridged)TN
Teaching Note for (9-301-081). View Details
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
- September 2001
- Teaching Note
adM@rt (A) and (B)TN
Teaching Note for (9-301-046) and (9-301-083). View Details
- September 2001
- Teaching Note
Cisco Systems Architecture: ERP and Web-enabled IT TN
Teaching Note for (9-301-099). View Details
Keywords: Information Technology Industry
- September 2001
- Teaching Note
H.E. Butt Grocery Company: The New Digital Strategy (A) and (B)TN
Teaching Note for (9-300-106) and (9-301-125). View Details
- September 2001 (Revised May 2005)
- Teaching Note
Li & Fung (A): Internet Issues (TN)
Teaching Note for (9-301-009). View Details
- June 2001 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Trinity College (D)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Nancy Bartlett
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- May 2001 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
H.E. Butt Grocery Company: The New Digital Strategy (B)
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- April 2001
- Supplement
Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice (Supplement)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Christina Ruth
Supplements the case. Designed as an in-class handout. View Details
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
- February 2001 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice (Abridged)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and James Weber
Merrill Lynch, a full-service brokerage firm with $1.5 trillion in client assets, is under attack from both discount and electronic brokerage firms. It responds with Integrated Choice, a suite of products designed to capture clients, from the do-it-yourself investor... View Details
- October 2000 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Li & Fung (A): Internet Issues
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Fred Young
This case looks at the issues facing a Hong Kong-based trading company, which links hundreds of factories in India and Asia with major customers like Gap and the Limited in Europe and in the United States. The company has recently launched a dot-com operation to allow... View Details
- July 2000
- Supplement
Merrill Lynch - John L. (Launny) Steffens
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
- April 2000 (Revised November 2003)
- Case
H. E. Butt Grocery Company: The New Digital Strategy (A)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
Shows how the company's IT priorities have moved from primary supply chain restructuring to e-commerce. Shows the new organization structure created by the company. View Details
- March 2000 (Revised September 2001)
- Teaching Note
Charles Schwab Corporation (A) and (B) TN
Teaching Note for (9-300-024) and (9-300-025). View Details
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
- March 2000
- Supplement
Charles Schwab Corporation, The: A Presentation by David Pottruck Co-CEO
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
David Pottruck, Co-CEO of Charles Schwab Corp., discusses the company's information technology and competitive strategy with an Executive Education (Program for Management Development) class at Harvard Business School, October 22, 1999. View Details
- November–December 1999
- Article
Working on Nonprofit Boards: Don't Assume the Shoe Fits
- September 1999 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Charles Schwab Corporation (B)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Nicole Tempest
Catches the situation facing Charles Schwab Corp. in late August 1999 in the dramatically changing brokerage industry. Their bold moves in January 1998 have created a new industry competitive pattern and provoked aggressive response by companies like Merrill Lynch. View Details
- September 1999 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
Charles Schwab Corporation (A)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Nicole Tempest
A look at the industrial restructuring in the brokerage industry made possible by e-commerce. Focuses the student's attention on the decision alternatives facing Charles Schwab, one of the industry leaders in January 1998. In a word, the challenge is "Do they slash... View Details
- March 1999
- Teaching Note
H.E. Butt Grocery Company: A Leader in ECR Implementation (A) & (B) (Abridged) TN
Teaching Note for (9-196-061) and (9-198-016). View Details
Keywords: Retail Industry
- March 1999 (Revised September 2001)
- Teaching Note
Providian Trust: Tradition and Technology (B) TN
Teaching Note for (9-398-035). View Details