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No. 16, October 2022.
"Forty hours," Professor C. Roland Christensen replied when a member of the doctoral seminar asked him about how much time was spent preparing a new case. Outside, snow was falling on the Harvard Business School grounds, but the discussion in the Doctoral Program room at Cotting House was heated at times. Some of us thought the great master was pulling our leg.
The preparation of a class discussion is not only about the content of the case you are going to teach, nor only about the objectives of the session or course. Debate occurs between people and nothing is more important in case discussion than information about them-information that is irrelevant to the teaching method.
At HBS as well as at INCAE, we receive cards with information about MBA students' nationality, gender, profession and university, work experience and favorite hobbies. And even more important is the information that these cards do not contain but that can be inferred in the first cla
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C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning: Case Method in Practice
The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning endeavors to make classes at the Harvard Business School dynamic and engaging. However, educators everywhere can benefit from the teaching and learning resources the center provides; the Case Method in Practice section is no exception. For instance, Chris Christensen described case method teaching as "the art of managing uncertainty," in which an instructor acts as "planner, host, moderator, devil's advocate, fellow-student, and judge," making for an interactive, open-ended, and collaborative learning process. Here readers will find subsections devoted to a variety of case method "dimensions," such as Core Principles, Sample Class, Preparing to Teach, Leading in the Classroom, and Providing Assessment and Feedback. Each of these subsections offers up tidbits of wisdom and suggestions for making classrooms work. Though the resources here are
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Education for Judgment - (Harvard Business Review Paperback S) by C Roland Christensen & David A Garvin (Paperback)
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- Discussion teaching--the foundation of the Harvard Business School's renowned case method of instruction--is a powerful tool for developing skills as well as conveying knowledge.
- About the Author: David Garvin is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business ledning at Harvard Business School.
- Series Name: Harvard Business Review Paperback S
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Discussion teaching--the foundation of the Harvard Business School's renowned case method of instruction--is a powerful tool for developing skills as well as conveying knowledge. In the give and take of discussion, students go beyond abstract understanding to the active application of important principles. They are confronted with the same kind of ambiguous, man