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About - Case Method Project

About 2ms Background Video Embed Introductory Video Case method teaching has been the core pedagogy at Harvard Business School (HBS) for decades, favored by students and teachers alike. Building on this record of success, HBS Professor... View Details

2003
Casebook

Professional Services: Text and Cases

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Ashish Nanda

DeLong and Nanda's Professional Services: Text and Cases is the first casebook to be published on the management of professional service firms (law firms, architecture, financial services, consulting). It includes a comprehensive selection of case studies that... View Details

Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Management; Cases

2007
Book

Accounting: Text and Cases

By: Robert N. Anthony, David F. Hawkins and Kenneth Merchant

Keywords: Accounting

03 Jun 2021
Video

The Latin American Case Consortium

08 Jan 2021
Video

The HBS Case Method Defined

October 2017 (Revised April 2019)
Case

Data Breach at Equifax

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Quinn Pitcher and Jonah S. Goldberg

The case discusses the events leading up to the massive data breach at Equifax, one of the three U.S. credit reporting companies, the organizational and governance issues that contributed to the breach, and the consequences of the breach. The case supplement provides... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Information Management; Cybersecurity; Technology Industry; United States

2003
Casebook

Accounting: Text and Cases

By: Robert N. Anthony, David Hawkins and Kenneth Merchant

Keywords: Accounting; Cases

Web

Partners - Case Method Project

Partners Partners AK HI WA OR CA ID NV UT AZ MT WY CO NM ND SD NE KS OK TX MN IA MO AR LA WI IL IN KY TN MS MI OH WV NC AL PA VA SC GA NY NJ MD DC FL VT MA CT DE ME NH RI 1000 teachers across the country See if teachers are already using the View Details

April 1976 (Revised September 1996)
Background Note

Use of Cases in Management Education

Briefly describes the process of case writing, the general nature of cases, and the advantages to students of learning by the case method. An approach to studying a case, individually or as a group member, for classroom discussion is outlined. Also summarizes the basic... View Details

Keywords: Cases; Business Education

09 Oct 2013
Video

Perspectives on the Case Method

March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
Case

AMC: The Zero Revenue Case

By: C. Fritz Foley and Donal O'Cofaigh

The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic put theatre company AMC’s already perilous financial situation under even further strain. The company’s high levels of debt resulted in a monthly cash-burn which left it facing an imminent Chapter-11 filing in the absence of... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Public Equity; Stock Shares; Health Pandemics; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

22 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Side Effects: The Case of Propecia

the wives or barbers of balding men? All these issues and more faced Tom Casola, who in 1997 was heading the Propecia marketing effort for the drug maker Merck & Co. The case was discussed by audience members at the 5th Annual Alumni... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Pharmaceutical

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Team - Case Method Project

About Team 17ms David Moss Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School and the founder of the Case Method Institute. Before joining the Harvard... View Details

2008
Case

Great Negotiator Case Study Package

By: James K. Sebenius, Jeswald Salacuse, Daniel Curran, Rebecca Hulse and Kristin Schneeman

This special curriculum package includes the following case studies in the Great Negotiator Case Study Series, each of which features a past recipient of PON's Great Negotiator Award:

2000 PON Great Negotiator: "To Hell with the Future, Let's Get... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation

May – June 1990
Article

Case of the Complaining Customer (HBR Case Study and Commentary)

By: Dan Finkelman, Tony Goland, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Dinah Nemeroff, Ron Zemke and Claus Moller

25 Jan 2023
News

The Rituals of Case Method Teaching

Article

A Case for Contextual Intelligence

By: Tarun Khanna

In this perspective, I make a case for entrepreneurs and academics alike to focus on what I have referred to elsewhere as Contextual Intelligence, the ability to understand the limits of our knowledge, and to adapt that knowledge to a context different from the one in... View Details

Keywords: Contextual Intelligence; Institutional Voids; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Situation or Environment; Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship