C ASE M ETH OD TEACHING

The Case Study Handbook

New book for students
The business case is a powerful learning tool. But analyzing cases and
writing about them can be challenging, especially for students new to the
case method. The Case Study Handbook will help students to analyze,
discuss, and write about cases. It includes sample cases and extensive
examples of effective writing to reinforce the learning.

The Case Study Handbook presents a new approach for analyzing, discussing,
and writing about cases. It covers:
n How to quickly establish a base of knowledge about a case
“By far the best and the
most comprehensive n How to write persuasive case-based essays
case study self-help book
I have ever read.” n How to talk about cases effectively in class

Rastislav Kulick, Author William Ellet has more than twelve years’ experience teaching students how
former MBA student, to read, analyze, and write about business cases in the MBA program at Harvard
Harvard Business School
Business School.

A full-length PDF of the book is available

for Authorized Faculty on our web site:
www.hbsp.harvard.edu/educators

THE CASE STUDY HANDBOOK

How to Read, Discuss, and Write Persuasively About Cases
WILLIAM ELLET
2007 • Paperback • #1584 • $24.95
ISBN 978-1-4221-0158-2

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Table of Contents RELATED COURSE MATERIALS
FOR STUDENTS
Introduction
Learning by the Case Method
1. Persuasion, Argument, and the Case Method John S. Hammond III
2. What Is a Case? HBS Background Note
376241

Part I: Analysis
Learning with Cases
3. How to Analyze a Case Thomas V. Bonoma
HBS Background Note
4. Case Analysis Demonstration 589080
5. Problems
Introduction to Cases
6. Decisions
Benson P. Shapiro
HBS Background Note
7. Evaluations
584097

Part II: Discussion

Introduction to the Case Method
8. How to Discuss a Case Benson P. Shapiro
HBS Background Note
Part III: Writing 576031

9. How to Write a Case-Based Essay A Note on Case Learning

10. Problem Essays E. Raymond Corey
HBS Background Note
Sample essays 899105
11. Decision Essays
Sample essays How to Avoid Getting Lost in the Numbers
David H. Maister
12. Evaluation Essays HBS Background Note
Disguised case 682010
Sample essay

Part IV: Cases for Analysis and Writing

Allentown Materials Corporation: The Electronic Products Division (Abridged)
General Electric: Major Appliance Business Group (Abridged)
General Motors: Packard Electric Division
Malaysia in the 1990s (A)
Whistler Corporation (A)

THE CASE STUDY HANDBOOK

How to Read, Discuss, and Write Persuasively About Cases
MC142360707

WILLIAM ELLET
2007 • Paperback • #1584 • $24.95
ISBN 978-1-4221-0158-2
Product #M70292

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Printed on recycled paper.

(800) 545-7685 or (617) 783-7600 outside the U.S. and Canada

custserv@hbsp.harvard.edu
www.hbsp.harvard.edu/educators