...How to write a teaching case I am currently – with colleagues Mikael Lönnborg and Gerhard Schjelderup – editing what we hope to be a book of Scandinavian teaching cases. In a meeting in Stockholm recently, I was asked to explain what it takes to write a teaching case. I gave my opinion, we had a very interesting discussion. Here is my (very rough and off the cuff) opinion about what it takes (in reality, how a teaching case differs from a research case). Why are you writing this case? Cases are written for a teaching purpose – and to write a teaching case, you need to have a teaching objective in mind. It is not enough to have an interesting company. Even the best company story needs to have a pedagogical point, a theory or dilemma to illustrate. So don’t write a teaching case just because you happen to know someone in a really interesting company – it does need to be a good story, but it also need to have a purpose. The standard outline Cases – particularly the standard HBS case – follow an outline that can seem rather trite, but which is very effective. It is something like this: 0.5 page: Intro: The protagonist is introduced, typically pondering a question of some importance. The idea is to tell the students from which perspective the case is written, to set the scene – and that is all there is to it. 1 – 1.5 pages: Description of the company – not the whole history, but the relevant details, explaining what the company is doing, how they make their money. Most...
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...How to Write a Case Study Case Studies are a very effective promotional tool. Next to White Papers, they are the second most popular device used to promote the benefits of a product or service. With that in mind, if youve been commissioned to write a case study or are new to this area, this backgrounder might help. What is a Case Study? A case study demonstrates how a specific situation was initially identified, which solution was selected to resolve the issue, and a summary of the final results. |[pic] | | |In the IT world, case studies tend to be short; somewhere between 300-500 words. | |In general, aim for three pages, and include one graphic per page at most. Anything more and it looks like | |hard sell; case studies typically adopt a soft-sell approach. | |How to structure your case study | |There are three sections to a case study. | |Problem | |Implementation | |Results | |The opening 'problem' section must carry a punch. In other words, it has to mean something to...
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...org/user/houser/advancedwebdesign/Tips_on_Writing_the_Case_Study.html HOW TO WRITE A CASE STUDY by Charles Warner There are two types of case studies: (1) factual ones depicting real organizations, people, and situations and (2) fictional ones that, although usually based loosely on actual people and events, do not use real organization's or people's names. The advantages of factual case studies are that they can provide a wealth of detail, give credibility to situations and problems, and, most important, provide real outcomes. Actual results give those who analyze a case real-world solutions: How did the organization or manager solve the problems? Did the solutions work? Although factual cases furnish concrete, not theoretical, solutions, they also have some drawbacks. Often students or case discussants get hung up debating the details of the case as they may remember them. Some discussants claim inside information or refer to later outcomes that bring the organization's solutions into question. When discussing factual cases, analysts tend to focus on the accuracy of the details rather than on the appropriateness of the solutions. Factual cases tend to become outdated as organizations, strategies, problems, and people change over time. Also, if a factual case portrays real organizations or people in a negative way, questions of taste, fairness, and even libel can arise. Finally, in a factual case writers must obviously stick to the facts, which means that they are...
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...CHAPTER 9 ON Writing about a case builds on the process of analyzing a case.The case situations described in previous chapters can be used to organize essays. An essay arguing a decision is organized in a different way from one offering a problem diagnosis.The structure of problem, decision, and evaluation essays is described in chapters 10 through 12, respectively. The chapters also include cases and sample essays about them. The essays are based on the writing of MBA students. To convince a reader that a conclusion about a case is valid, the writer must offer credible evidence linked directly to the conclusion. This fact helps explain the characteristics case-based essays have in common: 1. Answers two questions—What? Why?—and often a third—How? 2. Makes a position statement (What?) OT C CHAR ACTERISTICS OF A PERSUA SIVE C A SE ESSAY OP riting about a case is very different from talking about it.You collaborate with others in a discussion, bringing to bear everyone’s background and case preparation along with the instructor’s knowledge and facilitation skills. But you usually work on your own when writing about a case.You have to perform the entire analysis yourself as well as organize and express your thinking for a reader. However, the difference between talking and writing about a case runs deeper still.Audiences have much more exacting expectations of a text than they do of spoken comments. Logical gaps and the back-and-fill tolerable in a discussion are...
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...Here's How: 1. Investigate and Analyze the Company’s History and Growth. A company’s past can greatly affect the present and future state of the organization. To begin your case study analysis, investigate the company’s founding, critical incidents, structure, and growth. 2. Identify Strengths and Weaknesses Within the Company. Using the information you gathered in step one, continue your case study analysis by examining and making a list of the value creation functions of the company. For example, the company may be weak in product development, but strong in marketing. 3. Gather Information on the External Environment.The third step in a case study analysis involves identifying opportunities and threats within the company’s external environment. Special items to note include competition within the industry, bargaining powers, and the threat of substitute products. 4. Analyze Your Findings. Using the information in steps two and three, you will need to create an evaluation for this portion of your case study analysis. Compare the strengths and weaknesses within the company to the external threats and opportunities. Determine if the company is in a strong competitive position and decide if it can continue at its current pace successfully. 5. Identify Corporate Level Strategy. To identify a company’s corporate level strategy for your case study analysis, you will need to identify and evaluate the company’s mission, goals, and corporate strategy. Analyze the...
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...Case studies can be used in any academic discipline. The purpose of a case study is to provide a more thorough analysis of a situation or "case" which might reveal interesting information about that classification of things. For the business student, a case study could be done on a particular company; for the political science student a case study might concern a particular country or government/administration. Case studies could be written about individuals, such as how kids learn to read, for example, about organizations and their management practices, or the results of applying a computer science program or process to a problem. You might be trying to figure out how to solve the problem of illiteracy or environmental degradation. The sky is the limit. The key is to take your large problem and bring it down to the level of the individual or single unit. A case study is an analytical piece. It involves heavy research and application of theories, concepts, and knowledge commonly discussed in the field of study. It highlights common problems in the field and will illuminate those problems through the in-depth study of its application to one individual, one company, one government, or one of whatever you are studying. Most case studies are an attempt to solve one of these problems that are known in the field. Steps to Writing the Case Study 1) Determine what your case study will be about. Think about the problems you have discussed in class or you have come across in...
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...CASE ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY 1 The Process Overview of the Process The best way to deal with cases is to read through the case material (or the relevant documentation that has been collected) several times, doing slightly different tasks on each additional pass. In the first reading go through the information quickly and keep an open mind. Avoid locking in on any particular facts until you really have the outline of the case data in your mind. During your second reading start underlining and making notations on the various parts of the case. Do not try to fill in a framework just yet. The third step is to isolate key variables and make a few numerical calculations. Once you have done this, take a few minutes to sit back and think. Then fit the analysis together using the framework provided below. Now you will have an organized and thoughtful approach to the marketing problem. After you have mastered the facts and other information, isolate the major problem to be solved. Identify the key problems faced by the manager in a strategic sense. Do not forget the context of the organization and its situation. The problem must be solved within this context. Proceed with the analysis of the major points or areas. For the purpose of this course, the analysis is the most important part of the report. At this time in your career and in this course, the reasoning behind how you arrived at the recommended course of action carries more weight than the actual decision. The analysis consists, at...
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...The writer met with a 20-year-old African American male homeless who walk to Henry Ford Main. The consumer report that he was having stomach pain that is why he came to the hospital. The consumer denies suicidal/homicidal ideation, no auditory/visual hallucination, no delusion, no poor impulse control, no insight into the need for treatment and no impaired judgment. The consumer has a vacant stare, pressured speech, paranoid with disorganized thought, delusional thinking, impaired judgment and he seem to also be responding to internal stimuli the consumer did not make eye contact with the writer during his assessment. The consumer was recently discharged from Harbor Oak with intake appointment at New Center Community Services. The consumer...
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...effective test cases is a skill and that can be achieved by some experience and in-depth study of the application on which test cases are being written. Here I will share some tips on how to write test cases, test case procedures and some basic test case definitions. What is a test case? “A test case has components that describes an input, action or event and an expected response, to determine if a feature of an application is working correctly.” Definition by Glossary There are levels in which each test case will fall in order to avoid duplication efforts. Level 1: In this level you will write the basic test cases from the available specification and user documentation. Level 2: This is the practical stage in which writing test cases depend on actual functional and system flow of the application. Level 3: This is the stage in which you will group some test cases and write a test procedure. Test procedure is nothing but a group of small test cases maximum of 10. Level 4: Automation of the project. This will minimize human interaction with system and thus QA can focus on current updated functionalities to test rather than remaining busy with regression testing. So you can observe a systematic growth from no testable item to a Automation suit. Why we write test cases? The basic objective of writing test cases is to validate the testing coverage of the application. If you are working in any CMMi company then you will strictly follow test cases standards. So writing...
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...The following case study focuses on Tina, a 45 year-old single mother of three adult children, Jackson, Oliver, and Crystal, all of whom still live at home. Tina has a great job in her community as a school teacher and she loves to stay active in her free time. She enjoys running and going to the gym, although she has begun to spend excessive amounts of time exercising because she feels she has hit a plateau at the gym. Tina also has been dating a nice man named Michael for the last five years; she is very happy with Michael and loves him very much but has some insecurities about their relationship. Tina will often confide in her best friend Ida about everything going on in her life and relies on her friend for moral support. Tina’s family...
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...The two concepts of race and class developed together and were tangled through the history, so I think they could be elaborated together in the following essay. So how did the idea about race and class form and develop? The answer could be found starting from the colonial period. In the colonial period, Europeans tried to establish settlements in Florida, the Northeast area bordering Canada, the Virginia colony, and the Southwest. By the 1600s, English colonists had established a system of indentured servitude that included both Europeans and Africans. Soon after, the slave labor system replaced the indentured working labor systems and gradually became rooted in the society. Due to the relationship between white owners and black slaves, the social hierarchy based on the race emerged naturally. Of course, white had the superiority and the black were attached tags of inferiority. The other race is the Native Americans. They were aboriginal people on the land of America. Although they developed good relationship with the first colonists, the conflicts between the Natives and the white Americans over the land issue could never be peacefully solved. Because the natives were outdated in their weapons so they lost their land to the white Americans. At that time, the absolute force meant the dominant power. The natives had to give in, and hence they became subordinates instead of the owner of the land. The most obvious point was the Indian Removal Act. Though it raised a lot of controversy...
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...Exercise Based on basics of c and if else 1. Write a program to print ASCII value of a character entered. 2.Write a program to read a character and if the character entered is a upper case then convert it into lower case and vice versa. 3. Write a program to convert degree Fahrenheit into degree Celsius. 4. Write a program to check whether a number entered is a even number or odd number using switch case statement. 5. Write a program to read month of the year as an integer and print the month name using switch case statement. Exercise based on Loops 1. Write a program to print first 10 natural numbers using while loop, for loop and do while loop. 2. Write a program to calculate the sum of first 10 natural number using while loop, for loop do while loop. 3. Write a program to find the reverse of a number. 4. Write a program to check whether a number is palindrome or not. 5. Write a program to check whether a three digit number is a Armstrong number or not. 6. Write a program to print the numbers from m to n range. 7.write a program to calculate factorial of a number. 8.Write a program to check whether a number is prime or not. 9.Write a program to calculate the sum of digits of a number. 10.Write a program to print the following pattern using loops (a)* (b)1 (c) 1 (d) 0 ** 12 22 12 *** ...
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...Attorney Client Confidentiality Write a 200- to 300-word response describing the concept of attorney–client confidentiality and its importance to the criminal justice system. Include a discussion of the major concerns involved in maintaining confidentiality. CJS 220 Capstone Capstone Discussion Question Post your response to the following: This course has taught the law as a “living body.” How do personalities, actions, trends, political correctness, and the moral aptitudes or ineptitudes of society influence the creation of governing laws? Do you think laws are a reflection of society or society is a reflection of laws? Explain your answers. CJS 220 Due Process Write a 200- to 300-word response describing the concept of due process, including how it applies to the criminal justice system. CJS 220 Final Write a 700-to 1,050-word paper in which you describe the appeals process. Address the following: · What is an appeal? · How do appeals factor into the overall criminal procedures and processes? · How can we improve the appeals process? Include at least one example of a real-world case that went through the appeals process. Explain why this appeal did or did not succeed. Format your paper and resource consistent with APA guidelines. CJS 220 Final 1 In this file of CJS 220 Final 1 you will find the next information: Write a 1500-1700 words paper on Fiction Versus...
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...How to Write a Case Analysis Read a case at your normal speed without stopping to take notes. Read the assignment at the end of the case (if there is an assignment), and then carefully read the entire case again, taking notes in the margins as you read. Your task is to identify problems in the case, formulate recommendations to solve these problems, and then write your analysis with the following four headings: 1. 2. 3. 4. Summary of the facts presented. Analysis of the problems. Recommendations for solutions to the problems. Implications your recommendations will have on the operation of the organization. Follow the above format even if there are Assignment questions at the end of the case. Important: Weave the answers to the Assignment questions into your “Recommendations” section. As you write your case analysis, you must include appropriate references to the assigned reading. Your references should be in the following formats: For books and articles, (Brandenburger & Nalebuff, 1996. p. 126) and for Web articles and material, (www.charleswarner.us/articles/BUDGETS.html. September, 2004). The date in the Web reference is the month you accessed a Web site. Do not include a bibliography or references section at the end of your case analysis unless you refer to books or articles that are not Required or Recommended Reading. Summary Begin your write-up with a concise synthesis of the facts in the case, under the heading “Summary.” Stick to one or two sentences and do not put...
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...reference 1-429-140 May 11, 2012 How to Write a Business Case Study A business case study confronts students with a real-life dilemma and engages all their abilities to solve its challenges. In presenting a specific business or policy situation—one that does not have an obvious solution—the case provides information for classroom discussion and other study. A good case study stimulates an educated conversation and the building of business knowledge. The best case studies are learning-centered, not instructor-centered. Details describing the differences between the two can be found in Exhibit 1. A student reading the case should be provided with the information needed to make good decisions about the case, or the ability to find the information if that is a learning objective. Information critical to solving the case should never be contained exclusively in the case’s teaching note, because doing so puts the instructor in the center of the learning, and leads to frustrated students. Cases should satisfy professors and students as well as the businesses, organizations, and people featured in the cases. Although these interests might appear in conflict, a case that is written with fairness and intelligence will ultimately receive the respect of all parties. The best cases have several structural characteristics in common including a protagonist, specific time frame, and use of past tense. An author who becomes experienced in case writing may deviate from this pattern, but doing...
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