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  1. What is the Case Study Method?

    Celebrating 100 Years of the Case Method at HBS . The 2021-2022 academic year marks the 100-year anniversary of the introduction of the case method at Harvard Business School. Today, the HBS case method is employed in the HBS MBA program, in Executive Education programs, and in dozens of other business schools around the world.

  2. What the Case Study Method Really Teaches

    It's been 100 years since Harvard Business School began using the case study method. Beyond teaching specific subject matter, the case study method excels in instilling meta-skills in students.

  3. 5 Benefits of the Case Study Method

    Through the case method, you can "try on" roles you may not have considered and feel more prepared to change or advance your career. 5. Build Your Self-Confidence. Finally, learning through the case study method can build your confidence. Each time you assume a business leader's perspective, aim to solve a new challenge, and express and ...

  4. Cases

    Case method teaching immerses students in realistic business situations--which include incomplete information, time constraints, and conflicting goals. ... Transform business education. ... Case Companion is an engaging and interactive introduction to case study analysis that is ideal for undergraduates or any student new to learning with cases.

  5. Case Method

    The case method encourages students to plan a course of inquiry—analyze, listen, compare other perspectives—and choose a course of action. For over 100 years, HBS has been an innovative leader in the development and refinement of teaching with the case method, helping to shape business education programs and business leaders around the world.

  6. The Future of Case Teaching

    Robert D. Austin et al., "7 Favorite Business Case Studies to Teach—and Why," Inspiring Minds by Harvard Business Publishing Education, accessed April 2, 2021. [1] Steven M. Shugan, "Editorial: Save Research—Abandon the Case Method of Teaching," Marketing Science 25 (2006): 109-115.

  7. What the Case Study Method Really Teaches

    It's been 100 years since Harvard Business School began using the case study method. Beyond teaching specific subject matter, the case study method excels in instilling meta-skills in students. This article explains the importance of seven such skills: preparation, discernment, bias recognition, judgement, collaboration, curiosity, and self ...

  8. The History of the Case Study at Harvard Business School

    This case study method forms the backbone of the Harvard Business School curriculum. Back in the 1920s, HBS professors decided to develop and experiment with innovative and unique business instruction methods. As the first school in the world to design a signature, distinctive program in business, later to be called the MBA, there was a need ...

  9. Research: Business Case Studies: Case Method (Teaching)

    The case method at the Harvard Business School : papers by present and past members of the faculty and staff by McNair, Malcolm P (editor) Location: Mugar Library Off-site HF1111 F54. Publication Date: 1954. Case Studies in Strategic Management by Gunther Friedl (Editor); Andreas Biagosch (Editor) Location: online. Publication Date: 2019.

  10. Case Study Method: A Step-by-Step Guide for Business Researchers

    Case study method is the most widely used method in academia for researchers interested in qualitative ... the case studies conducted in business and management disciplines assume the interpretive paradigm. ... Yazan B. (2015). Three approaches to case study methods in education: Yin, Merriam, and Stake. The Qualitative Report, 20, 134-152 ...

  11. What Is a Case Study?

    Revised on November 20, 2023. A case study is a detailed study of a specific subject, such as a person, group, place, event, organization, or phenomenon. Case studies are commonly used in social, educational, clinical, and business research. A case study research design usually involves qualitative methods, but quantitative methods are ...

  12. Business Education: Articles, Research, & Case Studies on Business

    Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive. by Martha Lagace. Writing a business case on the icon of daytime television and chief executive of a major media empire was challenge enough for HBS professor Nancy Koehn and colleagues. Oprah Winfrey's visit to campus to talk with graduating students made it ample reward.

  13. Business Education and Case Study Pedagogy: A Skill-Building Approach

    case study methods in business education and few studies have attempted to document the role of case study methods in business education, for instance, Abrar, Abbasi, and Saqib, (2021) explored the perception of teachers regarding usage of case study methods as a teaching instrument in business education.

  14. How to Write a Great Business Case

    6 QUALITIES OF GREAT CASE WRITERS. Curiosity. Comfort with ambiguity, since cases may have more than one "right" answer. Command of the topic or subject at hand. Ability to relate to the case protagonists. Enthusiasm for the case teaching method. Capacity for finding the drama in a business situation and making it feel personal to students.

  15. International Business Education at the Interface: The Raw Case Study

    Borrowing from Yale School of Management, we call this new approach the raw case method of learning. Unlike a traditional case study, a raw case is not confined in print or pages of a narrative about a challenging international business situation. It is an open, real-time information space through which case study students may wander.

  16. Using the Case Study Method in Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Education

    Various methods are used in entrepreneurship education. However, the effectiveness of these methods in inculcating the much-needed improvement in entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, intentions, and ultimately entrepreneurial activity is underexplored in literature. Following the action research approach in an undergraduate entrepreneurship class of 165 students, the study investigated the ...

  17. Case Study Method in Business Education in the USA

    Business Education is dynamic in nature and needs diverse information to deal with different business problems. To understand the peculiar situations and to manage them effectively, case studies are widely used. ... The case study method helps the students in developing wisdom and gives lot of scope for knowledge application. Nowadays, business ...

  18. Business education

    What the Case Study Method Really Teaches. Business ... IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school partnership. ...

  19. Concept of Social Entrepreneurship in the Development of Creative

    Social entrepreneurship is currently viewed as a solution to address various social issues, including welfare, healthcare, education, poverty alleviation, and community empowerment, among others. This research aims to develop a social entrepreneurship concept suitable for Cirendeu Village. The concept of social entrepreneurship is closely related to the 8th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG ...

  20. Case Teaching

    Jeremy B. Dann is a lecturer at USC's Marshall School of Business and the founding director of the case study program at the school's Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Dann was named Outstanding Case Writer and winner of The Case Centre's 2021 global case writing competition. He graduated from Harvard Business School in 1998 ...

  21. Guidelines for data collection on energy performance of higher

    A case study of a governmental office building used for educational purposes (the Mechanical Engineering Department building at the Faculty of Engineering Campus of Ain Shams University) was investigated by Fady Emil and Aya Diab [Citation 26]; The mechanical systems utilized to condition the building utilizing Energy Plus and a variety of ...

  22. A mixed methods evaluation of the impact of ECHO® telementoring model

    The present study intends to assess the impact of the training program for improving the knowledge and skills of ASHA workers. We conducted a pre-post quasi-experimental study using a convergent parallel mixed-method approach. The quantitative survey (n = 490) assessed learning competence, performance, and satisfaction of the ASHAs.

  23. 2024 Grant Program Awardees

    The anticipated outputs of the project include qualitative data that illuminate case studies and the coding of quantitative spatial data sets for studying urban land-use. These different forms of data collection will allow me to develop and test a theoretical framework for understanding when and why city governments adopt environmental policy.