Cases - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Apr 2022
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Case Method Centennial Celebration: General Shoe Company

15 Mar 2017
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What's Your Favorite Case to Teach?

25 Jan 2016
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Problem-based learning and the case method

28 Sep 2012
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Steve Jobs, the Immediate Case Study

07 Apr 2020
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Bringing the Case Method Online

01 Feb 1998
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business school cases feature male executives. In the fall, a new initiative was launched to support the development of case studies featuring women business leaders in key roles. The effort, the Marjorie... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Case Studies for Your Commute

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

02 May 2022
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Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

31 Jan 2018
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Regi’s ‘Innovating in Health Care’ Case Corner

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

expanding pool of leaders has been captured in an ever-broadening and deepening body of HBS case materials. The study of leadership, like everything else at HBS, begins with the case method. In the pages... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2007
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The FBI Makes Its Case

FBI Director Robert Mueller and three high-level bureau executives spent a day on campus in late April talking with first-year students about the bureau’s transformation since 9/11 to focus on domestic intelligence gathering and prevention of terrorist attacks. The... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Jun 2018
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Case Study: Tip the Scale

find another way to scale an assembly-line process? The Answers: Has Walden considered an Amazon approach, with additional procedures for a customer’s second and possibly third choices, in case inventory does not match a customer’s first... View Details

22 Sep 2009
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The Case for Regulatory Reform

we only act when necessary to avert unacceptable — and in some cases dire — outcomes. The second is that any intervention go with, rather than against, the grain of the market system. Our objective is not to supplant or replace markets.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government

01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition

cofounder and president, Deena Malkina (MBA 2008), offered this case study query to alumni: “KitNipBox is laser-focused on differentiating its brand by sourcing the most unique, high-quality products on the market, committing to healthy... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit

—Katherine Bach Kalin (MBA 1990) Got a case? To take part in a future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu Case Study Update: Wellthy Wellthy is a software-enabled service for coordinating complex... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2016
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Case Study: Sweat the Technique

including NFL and NHL teams. Use cases also include military and elder care markets. All told, Unger estimates peak revenues to reach about $375 million. Nix is still in the midst of product development, but it expects to set the market... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2015
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Complements to the Case Method

case discussion to determine whether ideas are reasonable or not, but there’s no way for us to test them in the classroom. In the simulation, students have to make choices and then learn about the consequences of those choices.” “We can... View Details

28 May 2019
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Case Study: Building the Base

consider how to improve and expand the platform. —William Collis (MBA 2011) Got a case? To take part in a future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu Case Study Update: Sneakz Organic Charles Philp... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2014
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Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

November 2013, and launched its first official new market expansion into Washington, DC, in February—a city close in culinary and cultural equivalence to Brussels. The Question: Bookalokal's cofounder and CEO Evelyne White (MBA 2010) offers this View Details

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