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Watkins says on his weblog that junior faculty are focusing on writing for prestigious peer-reviewed publications instead of developing the field-based cases “that outside scholars view as something lower than the lowest-class journal articles.”
The shift “sounds the death knell for [the school’s] delicate experiment in bridging theory and practice,” Watkins says.
HBS’s own analysis, according to Aisner, casts doubt on the data Watkins uses to bolster his arguments.
Watkins writes in an e-mail that field-based studies accounted for 74 percent of all HBS cases two years ago—but only 57 percent of cases developed in recent months. Instead, he says, an increasing percentage of new cases come from less labor-intensive library research.
Watkins uses data directly from the HBS website, which displays cases that are for sale to other business schools.