The case for cases: writing and teaching cases for the emerging economies

Abstract

Teaching cases are important instructional mechanisms for educating business leaders. Cases must be relevant to the context in which the students will work so they can make informed judgments and defend their position to their peers. The case is made for developing a set of teaching cases based on business challenges in emerging economies to provide students in these regions the contextual realism necessary for a valuable classroom experience. Guidance is given to novice case teachers and writers.

Keywords:

• teaching case
• case method
• emerging economy
• contextual realism

Acknowledgements

Leyland Pitt recognizes his thinking on case teaching has been very positively influenced by John Deighton (Harvard Business School), Jim Heskett (Harvard Business School), and Susan Fournier (Boston University).

Notes

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For an extensive list of resources, see http://www.nyu.edu/cte/discussionbib.html.

http://bit.ly/bizmodcanvas.