100 YEARS OF CASE METHOD TEACHING & LEARNING

The 2021-22 academic year marks the 100-year anniversary of the introduction of the case method at Harvard Business School. Dean Srikant Datar celebrates this milestone with a look back at the first case, and casts forward to how this enduring teaching method might evolve.

Celebrating 100 Years of Case Method Teaching & Learning

Every HBS alum knows that the Case Method is the core of the HBS pedagogical approach. And everyone who has sat in a chair in any program at HBS knows that participating in a case discussion is the heart of the learning experience everyone shares. We all remember those amazing discussions about specific cases that were formative in our journeys to become business leaders and shape the organizations we lead. And we all remember the anxiety waiting for that dreaded day of the “cold call” and the “opportunity” to open the case discussion. Everyone remembers how we…