Subject category:
Case Method and Specialist Management Disciplines
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 30 June 2005
Length: 8 pages
Data source: Published sources
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Abstract
Used in the first module of a Harvard Business School course on Managing Service Operations, which addresses managing the operating role of customers . At Zipcar, customers share the use of cars and, as a result, rely on each other for their service experience. Customers are required to keep the car clean and the gas tank full and to return the car on time. Told from the perspective of two customers: Sal Fishman, who has a car and is running late at an interview, and Anita Karr, who has just arrived at her reserved car's empty parking spot.
Teaching and learning
This item is suitable for postgraduate and executive education courses.Time period
The events covered by this case took place in 2004.Geographical setting
Region:
Americas
Country:
United States
Featured company
Zipcar
Employees:
11-50
Industry:
Car & truck rental
Featured protagonists
- Sal Fishman (male)
- Anita Karr (female)
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Abstract
Used in the first module of a Harvard Business School course on Managing Service Operations, which addresses managing the operating role of customers . At Zipcar, customers share the use of cars and, as a result, rely on each other for their service experience. Customers are required to keep the car clean and the gas tank full and to return the car on time. Told from the perspective of two customers: Sal Fishman, who has a car and is running late at an interview, and Anita Karr, who has just arrived at her reserved car's empty parking spot.
Teaching and learning
This item is suitable for postgraduate and executive education courses.Settings
Time period
The events covered by this case took place in 2004.Geographical setting
Region:
Americas
Country:
United States
Featured company
Zipcar
Employees:
11-50
Industry:
Car & truck rental
Featured protagonists
- Sal Fishman (male)
- Anita Karr (female)