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Sun, Bo
Building Trust at Scale: Airbnb’s Fight Against Adverse Selection (B)
GEM-0256 | Published September 18, 2025 | 2 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case contains the epilogue to "Building Trust at Scale: Airbnb’s Fight Against Adverse Selection (A)" (UVA-GEM-0237), and details how the situation in the A case played out for Airbnb, Inc. Read More
The Option Dilemma: Designing Executive Compensation Across Industries
GEM-0242 | Published July 14, 2025 | 9 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Consultant Sarah Chen is tasked with offering suggestions about designing executive compensation for two clients with vastly different risk profiles: Nova Technologies, a high-growth AI company, and A... Read More
Adverse Selection in Businesses
GEM-0248 | Published June 23, 2025 | 3 Pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
Adverse selection is a concept in economics and finance that arises from information asymmetry between parties involved in a transaction. It occurs when one party has more or better information than t... Read More
Interpreting Fed Communications in Uncertain Times
GEM-0241 | Published June 18, 2025 | 10 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores how financial markets interpret Federal Reserve (Fed) communications (sometimes called Fedspeak) through the lens of Victoria Miranda, head of macro strategy at GlobalInvest Capital... Read More
Moral Hazard and Incentive Design
GEM-0240 | Published June 12, 2025 | 8 Pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note establishes the concept of moral hazard and explores how to manage moral hazard in business contexts. Moral hazard—the misalignment of incentives that occurs when decision-makers d... Read More
Decoding Fedspeak
GEM-0243 | Published June 11, 2025 | 22 Pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note examines "Fedspeak"—the evolving communications strategy of the US Federal Reserve (the Fed). Once characterized by deliberate opacity, the Fed now actively shares information abou... Read More
Ukraine at War: A Global Geoeconomic Earthquake
GEM-0228 | Published June 11, 2025 | 19 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides an opportunity to discuss the economic implications of the Russia–Ukraine war from both a domestic and global perspective. The case covers the impact of the war on Ukraine’s economy... Read More
Managing Economic Uncertainty
GEM-0244 | Published June 10, 2025 | 17 Pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note examines strategic decision-making frameworks for managing economic uncertainty in business and policymaking contexts. The note presents two primary approaches: the "Wait and See" ... Read More
The Federal Reserve's Evolution in Managing Financial Uncertainty: From Crisis Management to Proactive Policy
GEM-0245 | Published June 09, 2025 | 4 Pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores how the US Federal Reserve (Fed) continuously designed its approach to financial stability policy in response to pervasive uncertainty in modern financial markets. Following the 200... Read More
From Lab to Market: Navigating Uncertainty
GEM-0235 | Published March 26, 2025 | 14 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores how different players in the biotech-pharmaceutical ecosystem manage uncertainty through distinct approaches determined by their resources, capabilities, and strategic positioning. ... Read More
Zoom's Moment of Truth: Scaling Under Radical Uncertainty
GEM-0236 | Published March 25, 2025 | 9 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
It is March 2020, and Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (Zoom), is experiencing a staggering increase in users of its software due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This case begins as Eric Yuan, f... Read More
Building Trust at Scale: Airbnb’s Fight Against Adverse Selection (A)
GEM-0237 | Published March 25, 2025 | 8 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case begins in the middle of a crisis for Airbnb, Inc. (Airbnb): A host has returned home to find her apartment ransacked by Airbnb guests, putting the company’s reputation—and its core business ... Read More
China’s 40 Years of Economic Reforms and Growth
Yang, Dennis; Maiden, Stephen E.; Sun, Bo; Holtz, Paul
GEM-0227 | Published November 14, 2024 | 37 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
China’s growth from 1978 to 2018 shifted China’s population from extreme poverty to the engine driving the world’s second-largest economy and largest exporter. Could economic theories help explain Chi... Read More