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
On the supply side of the lawyer bubble, some of the necessary conditions for its creation date to a nineteenth-century innovation in legal education—the case method.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2013
The Growth of the experimental sciences: an experiment in general education—progress report on the use of the case method in teaching the principles of the tactics and strategy of science.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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