Just realized why I’m skeptical of case method of MBA teaching (which I’ve never experienced live, not having an MBA). In the real business world execs rarely get to work a single problem with all relevant people over long sessions, with relevant data/theory front-loaded.
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Problems are rarely “solved” if they are pure management problems (if an engineering or financial fix disappears the problem it wasn’t a management problem to begin with). Instead 30% are repeatedly reconfigured/refactored around 10% “fixed point” problems until they resolve.
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Not a math error. About 60% of “problems” are optical illusions that never need to be solved at all. Just muddled through until they kinda vanish in a puff of shifted perspective and movement elsewhere. Premature case studying is the root of all evil.
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I get the sense that the case method was possibly more meaningful about 20-30 years ago. I get a genteel old-fashioned whiff of management by Organization Man collegiality and a simpler life. Or maybe it never existed.
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I don’t know if MBAs are sensing the growing mismatch too. But feels like the pedagogical model needs some evolution to reflect what might be called a cultural shift from more single threaded to more distributed problem solving.
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