case method
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Also called case-study method. the teaching or elucidation of a subject or issue through analysis and discussion of actual cases, as in business education.
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For more than a century, M.B.A. students have learned business strategy through the case method.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025
The case method offers historical distance—a safe way to practice political conversation without politicising the classroom.
From Economist • Jul. 5, 2017
He acknowledges, however, that the case method is not a good fit for everyone's learning style and that lectures may be a better way to learn about abstract concepts.
From US News • Sep. 19, 2016
The Langdell case method was a radical departure.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2013
But it is not exclusive of the other methods, since it perfects the positive method, and is the groundwork for the case method.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome
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