Support for the case method reflects a conviction that business education should be training in solving business problems. However, opponents see it as contributing to a narrow, instrumental, amoral perspective on business. We revisit the emergence of the method at Harvard to think beyond this polarization for the future.
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Bridgman, T. N., Cummings, S. & McLaughlin, C. (2015, January). The case method as invented tradition. Revisiting Harvard’s history to reorient management education. In Proceedings of the 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, Canada (2015 (1)pp. 218-223). Academy of Management. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2015.24