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Wow, I really enjoyed that. For a totally unexpected reason... There's lots of discussion here at hn about MBAs and I often comment about how little use I got
by edw519 16y ago
Wow, I really enjoyed that. For a totally unexpected reason...
There's lots of discussion here at hn about MBAs and I often comment about how little use I got out of mine. I remember little from marketing, finance, and operations classes. But I remember the case studies. The comprised almost half of the curriculum. And I hadn't thought much about them for years. Until reading this post.
This reads like a Harvard Business Review case study. It's got everything that makes for good business reading: compelling ideas, profit and loss, tradeoffs between profit and growth, economic considerations, competing interests, and most of all, characters. For a minute there, I thought I was reading Lee Iacocca. This could even make a great Hollywood script.
Great post. Thank you dwynings. I gotta get this book!
- maukdaddy 16y agoIt reads exactly like a HBR case...except without all of the excel attachments ;)
- davidmurphy 16y agoThis makes me want to read some case studies! Does anyone know of a good source for (ideally free) case studies, or does one always have to pay? I did a search for HBS case studies and found them for sale....
- danielnicollet 16y agoThe HBR case studies are always sold but fairly cheap ($6.95) given the quality of insights - see http://hbr.org/search//4294958507/?Ns=is_HBD_bestseller|0 http://hbr.org/search//4294958507/?Ns=is_HBD_bestseller|0 Otherwise, go to a business school library if you have access to one and you should find copies to read... On the other hand, all the free business case studies you can find on the web (http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=free+business+case+studies http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie...) are rarely worth the effort reading though them in my opinion...