Comparative Case Study - Publications - Faculty & Research

5 May 1999
Conference Presentation

A Comparative Study of Product Development Process Design

By: Alan MacCormack

Keywords: Product Development; Production; Design

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August 2004
Teaching Note

Your Own Case Study (TN)

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Sarah Marie Kauss

Teaching Note to (9-405-037). View Details

Keywords: Learning; Problems and Challenges; Programs

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01 Sep 2015
News

Case discussions typically start with the facts and blossom from there. But what happened before that? What got the professor excited about writing the case in the first place? What margin notes didn’t make... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

April 2009 (Revised July 2009)
Exercise

Bringing AMP Home: Personal Case Study

By: Michael L. Tushman

This exercise helps AMP participants build their own personal case study. They develop a gap statement, do formal root cause analysis, and action planning. This exercise is done for each participant and each phase is shared with living group colleagues. View Details

Keywords: Cases; Personal Development and Career; Education; Management

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20 Jun 2012
Talk

Case Teaching Seminar: Teaching Accounting with Case Studies

By: Anette Mikes

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What is the Case Study Method?

Overview Simply put, the case method is a discussion of real-life situations that business executives have faced. On average, you'll attend three to four different classes a day, for a total of about six hours of class time (schedules... View Details

1986
Book

America Versus Japan: A Comparative Study of Business-Government Relations

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; United States; Japan

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20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

idea for using Winfrey as the basis for one of HBS' hallmark case studies began simply enough. In the spring of 2002 when Koehn was teaching the first-year MBA course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, student... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

14 Sep 2017
News

Global work orientation: A case study

31 Mar 2022
Video

Case Method Centennial: General Shoe Co., the First Case Study

14 Oct 2011
News

Steve Jobs, the Immediate Case Study

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

Courses & Case Studies Case Studies Middlebury College: Energy2028 (320029) by Brian Trelstad , Michael Norris and John McKinley APRIL 2020... View Details

2001
Article

The Economic Contribution of Information Technology: Towards Comparative and User Studies

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein

By what process does technical change in information technology (IT) increase economic welfare? How does this process result in increases in welfare at different rates in different countries and regions? This paper considers existing literature on measuring the... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Welfare; Information Technology; Measurement and Metrics

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27 Apr 2017
News

HBS Prof: Case Studies Need Diversity — Now

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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08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

opportunities for women to lead. At HBS, we create case studies to help teach students to become future leaders. Each case generally focuses on one organization and features a... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg