the case method - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2012
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The $20 Billion Business Case for OSHA

27 Feb 2013
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HBS Faculty Win Global Case — Writing Competition

June 2001 (Revised March 2012)
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Developing a Teaching Case (Abridged)

Provides an overview of the case development, interviewing, and case writing process. View Details

Keywords: Cases

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May 2006 (Revised July 2007)
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Creating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI

Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM group are among the strategic options that GMAC Insurance CEO Gary Kusumi is considering. GMAC Insurance, the wholly-owned auto insurance subsidiary of General Motors, formed through... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Strategy; Auto Industry; Insurance Industry

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09 Nov 2020
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The Case for a COVID Vaccine Lottery

February 10, 2023
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The Case for Having a Boring CEO

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

CEOs who avoid the cameras and minimize drama offer valuable leadership lessons. Their lifestyles aren’t splashed on the pages of magazines. They don’t speak out on every public issue, and their pronouncements are balanced and cautious. Sometimes when I name them as my... View Details

Keywords: CEO; Leadership; Company Management; Personal Brand; Reliability; Humility; Public Opinion

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Ownership Dilemmas: The Case of Finders Versus Landowners

By: Peter DiScioli, Rachel Karpoff and Julian De Freitas

People sometimes disagree about who owns which objects, and these ownership dilemmas can lead to costly disputes. We investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying people’s judgments about finder versus landowner cases, in which a person finds an object on someone... View Details

Keywords: Ownership Dilemma; Finders; Psychology And Law; Ownership; Property; Law; Social Psychology

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November 1998
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Writing Cases and Teaching Notes

A guide to writing case studies and the accompanying teaching notes for teachers and casewriters. Begins with generating case leads and moves through field interviewing techniques, case drafting, case release, and preparing the teaching note. Also deals with the... View Details

Keywords: Design; Cases

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28 Oct 2013
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Case Study: The Nuts and Bolts of Nightlife

18 Dec 2011
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The case for labelling Newcits as complex

May 2021
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Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices

By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo

We study the impact of consumers’ risk perception on firm innovation. Our analysis exploits a major surge in the perceived risk of radiation diagnostic devices following extensive media coverage of a set of over-radiation accidents involving CT scanners in late 2009.... View Details

Keywords: Risk Perception; Innovation; Medical Devices; Liability Risk; Risk and Uncertainty; Perception; Technological Innovation

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29 Jul 2020
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Two Case Studies on the Financing of Forest Conservation

Keywords: by Andrew Baxter, Connor Cash, Josh Lerner, and Ratnika Prasad

22 Oct 2012
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The case study: When founders step aside

15 May 2014
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The Case For And Against Stressful Deadlines

04 Oct 2011
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Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com

Keywords: by Michael Luca; Food & Beverage

15 May 2019
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The Case For Breaking Up Big Tech

01 Dec 2017
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The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability

Image by John Ritter Is there a business case to be made for companies to act in environmentally friendly ways? Rebecca Henderson: If one can imagine that all business in the entire world was run by one... View Details