Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business courses that involve more number-crunching than subjective policy decisions, enthusiasm for the case method begins to fade. Professors outside the B-School say that studying topics such as accounting and corporate finance requires an understanding of basic principles before exploring complex scenarios, adding that using case studies from the start allows for only a superficial treatment of the subject...
Since the students normally control the flow of class discussion, says Christensen, they may direct their comments toward current issues if they choose. "I can't imagine a method that allows more freedom," he says...
While B-School professors acknowledge that the case method is less ideal for teaching highly quantitative fields, they maintain that it still proves valuable even in such areas as accounting and finance. Since these topics do not lend themselves to the case method as easily as business policy does, professors at most business schools are often left to decide whether lectures, cases or a mixed approach will work best for their courses...
...rigidity of Harvard's use of the case method is not missed at other schools, such as the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and Chicago's B-School...
...true academic wants the timeless answer--we want the timely," says Christensen. "We want you to learn and discover." The case method, he says, "isn't trying to intellectualize up to higher levels of abstraction, but down to the lower level of what you would do in a particular situation...