JournalofAccountancy

Using case studies to boost student participation and performance

Engaging students with course materials is a challenging aspect of teaching in higher education. This problem is particularly prevalent in graduate-level classes, where students from different ...
Brandeis University

An introduction to case-based classes

Case-based teaching is a popular learning method used by many business schools. It allows students to generate their own insights and develop critical thinking and communication skills through ...
Harvard Business Review

What the Case Study Method Really Teaches

During my decade as dean of Harvard Business School, I spent hundreds of hours talking with our alumni. To enliven these conversations, I relied on a favorite question: “What was the most important ...
The Harvard Crimson

Students, Faculty Reflect on 100 Years of Harvard Business School’s Case Method

This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the case study teaching method being introduced at Harvard Business School, pictured here.By Kareem M. Ansari Teruo Yabe, the new general manager of Tessei ...
Opinion

Beware the business school case study: The cautionary tale of Southwest Airlines

Such analyses capture what worked at a particular moment. That doesn’t mean it will work again. The venerable business case study method got its start in 1921 at the Harvard Business School. The ...
World Bank

On the Case: Writing Science of Delivery Case Studies (Self-paced)

Welcome to Writing Science of Delivery Case Studies! This course is about writing "science of delivery" case studies that help us extract insights and learn from implementation processes to help ...
Harvard Business School

Teaching By the Case Method

This section takes you behind the scenes and into the classroom with Harvard Business School Professor David Garvin as he teaches the R. R. Donnelley & Sons case in a development program for case ...