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Informing with the Case Method: A Guide to Case Method Reserach, Writing & Faciliation
by T. Grandon Gill
Synopsis: I write this book believing the answer is yes. While I havegreat affection for the classics, there are a number of issues facing most business faculty—not to mentionfaculty members from disciplines outside of business—that these books simply donot address. In writing this book, my intention is to offer some thoughts onsome of these. Paradoxically, these omissions arise from the very fact that theauthors of the classics are undisputed masters of their craft. Why this is aproblem should become clear as I identify the three areas of focus for thisbook. The first issue that I feel must be considered is using thecase method with a novice audience. Consider the following. When I was enrolledin the MBA program at Harvard Business School (HBS) in the early 1980s, thecurriculum consisted of nearly 900 case discussion (15 per week) and—perhaps—asmany as 20 class periods given over to lecture-style presentations. When Iteach a case-method graduate course at my own institution, on the other hand, Iam constrained to 11 case discussions (a 12 week semester). As it happens, I amalso the only course in the entire program that employs pedagogy reasonablyfaithful to the case method, as it is normally defined. The math is verysimple. By the last day of my semester, my students have as much experiencediscussing cases as I did on Thursday afternoon of the first week of my twoyear MBA program at HBS. With the exception of faculty teaching at those rareinstitutions that have chosen to widely adopt the case method, the situation Iface is commonplace.