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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

20 Feb 2006
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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

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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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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14 Oct 2011
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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

14 Sep 2017
News

Global work orientation: A case study

20 Jun 2012
Talk

Case Teaching Seminar: Teaching Accounting with Case Studies

By: Anette Mikes

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31 Mar 2022
Video

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

Summer 2014
Article

Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of the Causes of Operational Failures in Hospitals

By: Anita L. Tucker, W. Scott Heisler and Laura D. Janisse

Frontline care providers in hospitals spend at least 10% of their time working around operational failures, which are situations where information, supplies, or equipment needed for patient care are insufficient. However, little is known about underlying causes of... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Failure; Business Processes; Health Industry

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A Case Study Approach to Teaching Real Estate

By: William J. Poorvu

William J. Poorvu has developed a casebook and instructor's manual for teaching real estate by the case method. Real Estate: A Case Study Approach elaborates a conceptual framework for viewing real estate and the real-estate process. The instructor's manual (which... View Details

27 Apr 2017
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HBS Prof: Case Studies Need Diversity — Now

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

01 Mar 2009
News

The Case for Studying Financial History

certainly anticipated something very large because the parallels are not just with the Great Depression but with the financial crisis of 1914, which in many ways was more spectacular. So, this was a case of history informing judgments... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government