Publications

Spring 2014
Article

Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning

By: Jill Avery

Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their decision-making skills. Rigorous class participation is essential to achieving learning objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment... View Details

Keywords: Case Method Teaching; Marketing; Business Education; Teaching; Education Industry

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Forthcoming
Article

The Case Study as an Academic Methodology

By: David J. Collis

Pankaj Ghemawat made contributions to the strategy field with his application of case research as an academic methodology. View Details

Keywords: Case Research Methods; Case Method; Case Teaching; Cases; Teaching; Education Industry

Teaching Interest

Case Method Teaching

By: V.G. Narayanan

I like to offer seminars on Case Method Teaching to professors who would like to improve their case-method teaching. View Details

Keywords: Cases; Education Industry; India

November 1980 (Revised November 1998)
Background Note

Case Method Teaching

Prepared originally for new instructors in a first-year marketing course. While certain references are to cases in marketing, the note has applicability to case method teaching generally. View Details

Keywords: Cases; Teaching; Business Education

July 1984 (Revised March 1985)
Background Note

Hints for Case Teaching

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Provides hints for successfully teaching with cases. Intended to encourage thought and discussion about case teaching. View Details

Keywords: Cases

November 1998
Background Note

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

20 Jun 2012
Talk

Case Teaching Seminar: Teaching Accounting with Case Studies

By: Anette Mikes

Web

Case Method Teaching - Case Method Project

About Case Method Teaching 1ms What is the Case Method? The core pedagogy of Harvard Business School since the early 20th century, the case... View Details

June 2001 (Revised March 2012)
Background Note

Developing a Teaching Case (Abridged)

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

Keywords: Cases

July 1999
Case

Developing a Teaching Case (A): Virtualis Systems Case Background

By: Michael J. Roberts

Designed to expose potential casewriters to the process of framing a case, interviewing a case protagonist, and actually writing the case. This case is the introduction to the case site and is designed to be paired with a video in which the faculty customer for the... View Details

Keywords: Cases; Business Education

July 2001
Teaching Note

Developing a Teaching Case (TN) (D)

By: Michael J. Roberts

Describes several teaching plans that were developed for the Virtualis Systems case. Intended for use in training and development programs aimed at novice case writers. View Details

Keywords: Training; Cases

June 1991 (Revised June 1993)
Teaching Note

John M. Case Co., Teaching Note

By: Samuel L. Hayes III

Teaching Note for (9-291-008). View Details

Keywords: Industrial Products Industry

16 Feb 2023
Blog Post

The Rituals of Case Method Teaching

on my brain to focus on the class.” The case method requires this type of dedication, she says—she never needed them in her previous teaching roles and doesn’t when she gives research talks. “Before HBS I... View Details

10 Jun 2010
News

What the Benihana Case Teaches

January 1987
Case

Teaching and the Case Method

24 Aug 2015
News

The Case for Teaching Ignorance

1991
Book

Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership

By: C. R. Christensen, David A. Garvin and A. Sweet

Keywords: Case Method Teaching; Discussion Leadership; Cases