Publications

Article

Narrow Networks on the Health Insurance Exchanges: What Do They Look Like and How Do They Affect Pricing? A Case Study of Texas

By: Leemore S. Dafny, Igal Hendel and Nathan Wilson

4 Jun 2017
Conference Presentation

Democratic Protest in an Age of Market Consolidation: A Case Study on the Chicago Gas Trust and the Illinois Antitrust Act of 1891

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer

Article

Course Research: Using the Case Method to Build and Teach Management Theory

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Paul R. Carlile

Some in the Academy have questioned the usefulness of case studies in teaching sound management theory (Shugan 2006). Our research and experience suggests exactly the opposite-that case studies can unite the development of theory with the teaching of it in a single... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Cases; Research; Theory

May 2021
Article

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

22 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

Chinese entrepreneur who tested moving to China twice before; in both cases he returned to the United States disappointed. Now he feels he must be in China because, as he put it, "China is undergoing both its renaissance and its... View Details

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

conviction," and foster the realization "that life is filled with ambiguity." Tony Prehn pointed out that "The case study method ... is also an organic learning tool that updates itself... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

July–August 2021
Article

Case Study: Will a Bank's New Technology Help or Hurt Morale?

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

A case study is presented on the effort to introduce new information technology into a community bank and what impact that process may have on bank employees. View Details

Keywords: Employee Morale; Community Banks; Information Technology; Banks and Banking; Employees; Technology Adoption

Article

Case Study: Can Retailers Win Back Shoppers Who Browse then Buy Online?

By: Thales S. Teixeira and Sunil Gupta

This case study discusses the options that brick-and-mortar retailers can use to combat the negative consequences of 'showrooming.' View Details

Keywords: Showrooming; E-commerce; Retail Industry

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

“Young scholars frequently like to study a lot of different things, but they are often encouraged to really focus,” says Frank Nagle, assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. “Otherwise, how are you going to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

patent pools has questioned conventional thinking about the need for strong patent laws to encourage innovation. Other studies have shown that independent inventors continued to play a major role in innovation in the early twentieth... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

2007
Casebook

Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership

By: Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen S. Grossman and Susan Moore Johnson

Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the... View Details

Keywords: Management; Strategy; Leadership; Public Sector; Organizational Design; Education; Performance Improvement

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

possession. It allows states to enact suitable legislation to support local cannabis businesses. Evidence on health effects of cannabis use is mixed. Some studies offer evidence of negative health effects of cannabis use, particularly... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

2024
Working Paper

Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Philipp Chvanov

Private Equity (“PE”) received a 10-fold increase in capital flows since the Great Financial Crisis (“GFC”) Investors sought higher nominal returns relative to those they could obtain in the public capital markets. This paper questions the fundamental assumptions... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets

SSRN

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

programs could lose money in the first one to three years and so would not break even in a three-year time period. Allowing an eight- to twelve-year period, however, would be more realistic for a break even, they suggested. Treating A Silent Killer Participants in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

27 Jan 2015
Working Paper Summaries

College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea

Keywords: by Christopher Avery, Alvin E. Roth & Soohyung Lee; Education

1982
Article

Correlates of Deficient Consumer Environments: The Case of the Elderly

By: Rohit Deshpandé and S. Krishnan

Although much research attention has been given to the format of consumer information environments, there has been little study of the effects of consumer environments lacking in information. This paper describes an empirical study of elderly consumers functioning in... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Age; Information

04 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

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

Keywords: by Michael Luca; Food & Beverage

Article

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

May–June 2021
Article

Case Study: What Role Should a Company Play in a National Crisis?

By: Christopher J. Malloy

The article presents a fictionalized case study asking what type of role should a company play in a national crisis, specifically a tsunami hitting Indonesia, similar to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Topics include how disasters can impact family-owned companies, the... View Details

Keywords: Emergency Preparedness; Disaster Relief; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management