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Strategic Disclosure: The Case of Business School Rankings

By: Michael Luca and Jonathan Smith

We empirically analyze disclosure decisions made by 240 MBA programs about which rankings to display on their websites. We present three main findings. First, consistent with theories of countersignaling, top schools are least likely to disclose their rankings, whereas... View Details

Keywords: Voluntary Disclosure; Shrouded Attributes; Information Unraveling; Rankings; Higher Education; Corporate Disclosure; Rank and Position

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May 2020
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Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores

By: Weijia (Daisy) Dai and Michael Luca

Collaborating with Yelp and the city of San Francisco, we revisit a canonical example of quality disclosure by evaluating and helping to redesign the posting of restaurant hygiene scores on Yelp.com. We implement a two-stage intervention that separately identifies... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Consumer Behavior; Knowledge Dissemination; Food and Beverage Industry

2014
Working Paper

Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture

By: Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and John Rusnak

In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of complex technical systems and demonstrate its application to a large sample of software releases. Our methodology is based upon directed network graphs, which allows us to... View Details

Keywords: Complexity; Applications and Software; Product Design

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Winter 2002
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Private Equity in Latin America: The Mexican Case

By: Roberto Charvel and Juan Carlos de Yeregui

This article describes the private equity industry in Mexico from the late 1990's to the begining of the 2000's as well as gives a potential perspective for its coming years. View Details

Keywords: Emerging Economies; Latin America; Mexico; Developing Countries and Economies; Private Sector; Asset Management; Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Latin America

October 1989 (Revised October 1992)
Case

Smoke Wars: The Case for and Against the Cigarette Industry

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Describes the arguments for and against the tobacco industry. With the per capita demand for cigarettes steadily declining by 2% to 3% every year, the tobacco companies have been using various approaches to stem the tide. Many such moves, however, have come under... View Details

Keywords: Debates; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Performance; Social Issues; Consumer Products Industry

02 Jul 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices

Keywords: by Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo; Medical Devices & Supplies

Article

Trade, Investment, and Labor: The Case of Indonesia

By: Debora Spar

September 1994
Article

Implementing New Knowledge: The Case of Activity-Based Costing

By: Chris Argyris and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Knowledge; Accounting

October 10, 2019
Article

The Case for the Public Option Over Medicare for All

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer

How can the United States better control its health care costs and quality and still achieve universal coverage? The strongest choice is not Medicare for All, which would eliminate private insurance; it’s the public option, which would allow people to choose from... View Details

Keywords: Universal Health Coverage; Public Option; Medicare; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost Management; Quality; United States

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October 2012
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Securitization without Adverse Selection: The Case of CLOs

By: Effi Benmelech, Jennifer Dlugosz and Victoria Ivashina

In this paper, we investigate whether securitization was associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that identify loan holdings for a large set of CLOs and... View Details

Keywords: Personal Finance; Performance; Markets; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; Investment Portfolio; Financing and Loans

June 2008
Supplement

Mike Corbin: Closing the Corbin-Pacific Case - video

By: John A. Davis and Courtney Sampson

An interview with Mike Corbin wrapping up the Corbin-Pacific case. View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Motorcycle Industry

Article

Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Investment

April 2019 (Revised January 2022)
Teaching Note

Coup or Crime? The Case of Carlos Ghosn

By: Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese

Teaching Note for HBS No. 119-096. View Details

September 2004 (Revised November 2006)
Teaching Note

Evolution of Treatment, The: The Case of Diabetes

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer

Teaching Note to (9-302-023). View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Nutrition

September 1974
Article

Repeated Games of Incomplete Information: The Symmetric Case

By: Elon Kohlberg and Shmuel Zamir

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Information

March 2018 (Revised June 2022)
Background Note

Background Note: Examining the Case for Sustainable Investing

By: Shawn Cole, Vikram Gandhi and Caitlin Reimers Brumme

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The Corporate Brand Identity and Reputation Matrix—The Case of the Nobel Prize

By: Mats Urde and Stephen A. Greyser

The purpose of this article is to explore corporate brand identity and reputation, with the aim of integrating them into a single managerial framework. The Nobel Prize serves as an in-depth field-based case study and is analysed using the Corporate Brand Identity and... View Details