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...B-School plays a dual role in case studies--it not only uses them extensively in its own courses, but also is the major supplier of case studies to business schools and corporations around the world...
Harvard maintains a collection of 6000 cases, of which 2000 are used exclusively by Harvard professors, officials say. All have been developed at the B-School, and most are written by full-time case writers under faculty supervision...
...school distributes three-and-a-half to four million copies each year; one-and-a-half million are used within the B-School alone. Up until the 1950s the school served as a clearinghouse for the case studies of outside institutions, but later it abandoned this role...
...B-School has also helped other Harvard graduate schools to utilize the case study method. B-School professors last year helped Harvard's Medical School make its New Pathways program--a case-based system of instruction initiated as a 24-student experimental project four years ago--the foundation of its curriculum. The School of Public Health and the Kennedy School of Government also use the case method in some of their courses, says Christensen...
Kuhn, who teaches business ethics courses at Columbia, says he writes most of his own cases, and uses the B-School's "only if I'm desperate and can't come up with any of my own. It's not that I think Harvard's are poor, but they just don't fit my needs...