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Harvard Business School Press Books — Teaching and the Case Method
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   Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
  Add   View  21 pp.  Leadership for a Changing World: A Call to Adaptive Work
Author(s): Parks, Sharon D.
Publication Date: 09/22/2005
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2384BC
Subjects: Business education; Education; Leadership; Leadership development; Teaching methods
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: Today's increasingly complex and challenging world demands more and better leaders than ever before. Yet conventional methods of leadership training and teaching often fail to effectively transfer critical leadership skills into practice. In this chapter, the author advocates and describes the case-in-point teaching model in answer to the question: can leadership be taught? May be used with: (2385BC) How Do We Begin?: Differing Expectations: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2386BC) What Is Really Going On Here?: Engaging People at the Edge of Learning: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2387BC) Learning from Failure in Public: The Power of Small Group Consultation: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2388BC) Listening to the Music Beneath the Words: The Practice of Presence: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2389BC) What Endures?: The Power of Language, Image, and Metaphor: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2390BC) Courage and Costs: Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2391BC) The Same Approach — Other Teachers: The Question of Transferability: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2392BC) Toward a More Adequate Myth: The Art of Leadership; (2393BC) Leadership Can Be Learned: Strengths and Limitations of This Approach: Teaching Adaptive Leadership.
  Add   View  28 pp.  How Do We Begin? Differing Expectations: Teaching Adaptive Leadership
Author(s): Parks, Sharon D.
Publication Date: 09/22/2005
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2385BC
Subjects: Education; Leadership; Leadership development; Teaching methods
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: This chapter steps directly into a classroom in which the case-in-point teaching method is used, immersing the reader in the actual dynamics of the opening session of a course on Exercising Leadership at Harvard. May be used with: (2384BC) Leadership for a Changing World: A Call to Adaptive Work; (2386BC) What Is Really Going On Here?: Engaging People at the Edge of Learning: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2387BC) Learning from Failure in Public: The Power of Small Group Consultation: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2388BC) Listening to the Music Beneath the Words: The Practice of Presence: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2389BC) What Endures?: The Power of Language, Image, and Metaphor: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2390BC) Courage and Costs: Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2391BC) The Same Approach — Other Teachers: The Question of Transferability: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2392BC) Toward a More Adequate Myth: The Art of Leadership; (2393BC) Leadership Can Be Learned: Strengths and Limitations of This Approach: Teaching Adaptive Leadership.
  Add   View  31 pp.  What Is Really Going on Here? Engaging People at the Edge of Learning: Teaching Adaptive Leadership
Author(s): Parks, Sharon D.
Publication Date: 09/22/2005
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2386BC
Subjects: Education; Group dynamics; Leadership; Leadership development; Teaching methods
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: This chapter addresses how the case-in-point approach may be used to develop skills for identifying issues and factions within any social group and intervening strategically on behalf of some larger purpose. May be used with: (2384BC) Leadership for a Changing World: A Call to Adaptive Work; (2385BC) How Do We Begin?: Differing Expectations: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2387BC) Learning from Failure in Public: The Power of Small Group Consultation: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2388BC) Listening to the Music Beneath the Words: The Practice of Presence: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2389BC) What Endures?: The Power of Language, Image, and Metaphor: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2390BC) Courage and Costs: Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2391BC) The Same Approach — Other Teachers: The Question of Transferability: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2392BC) Toward a More Adequate Myth: The Art of Leadership; (2393BC) Leadership Can Be Learned: Strengths and Limitations of This Approach: Teaching Adaptive Leadership.
  Add   View  30 pp.  Learning from Failure in Public: The Power of Small Group Consultation: Teaching Adaptive Leadership
Author(s): Parks, Sharon D.
Publication Date: 09/22/2005
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2387BC
Subjects: Education; Leadership; Leadership development; Teaching methods
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: This chapter reveals how students' own leadership failures are brought into disciplined dialogue with the theory to generate insight into personal blind spots and open a broader repertoire of creative responses for future situations. May be used with: (2384BC) Leadership for a Changing World: A Call to Adaptive Work; (2385BC) How Do We Begin?: Differing Expectations: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2386BC) What Is Really Going On Here?: Engaging People at the Edge of Learning: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2388BC) Listening to the Music Beneath the Words: The Practice of Presence: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2389BC) What Endures?: The Power of Language, Image, and Metaphor: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2390BC) Courage and Costs: Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2391BC) The Same Approach — Other Teachers: The Question of Transferability: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2392BC) Toward a More Adequate Myth: The Art of Leadership; (2393BC) Leadership Can Be Learned: Strengths and Limitations of This Approach: Teaching Adaptive Leadership.
  Add   View  24 pp.  Listening to the Music Beneath the Words: The Practice of Presence: Teaching Adaptive Leadership
Author(s): Parks, Sharon D.
Publication Date: 09/22/2005
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2388BC
Subjects: Education; Leadership; Leadership development; Teaching methods
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: The conventional assumption about great leadership is that leadership charisma is something one must be born with. However, this chapter describes how the case-in-point approach offers pathways for developing the more valuable quality of presence — the ability to intervene, to hold steady, inspire a group, and work in both verbal and nonverbal realms. May be used with: (2384BC) Leadership for a Changing World: A Call to Adaptive Work; (2385BC) How Do We Begin?: Differing Expectations: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2386BC) What Is Really Going On Here?: Engaging People at the Edge of Learning: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2387BC) Learning from Failure in Public: The Power of Small Group Consultation: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2389BC) What Endures?: The Power of Language, Image, and Metaphor: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2390BC) Courage and Costs: Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2391BC) The Same Approach — Other Teachers: The Question of Transferability: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2392BC) Toward a More Adequate Myth: The Art of Leadership; (2393BC) Leadership Can Be Learned: Strengths and Limitations of This Approach: Teaching Adaptive Leadership.
  Add   View  29 pp.  What Endures? The Power of Language, Image, and Metaphor: Teaching Adaptive Leadership
Author(s): Parks, Sharon D.
Publication Date: 09/22/2005
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2389BC
Subjects: Business education; Education; Leadership; Leadership development; Teaching methods
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: Courses or training sessions may seem powerful in the moment, but often quickly fade when participants return to business as usual. This chapter tackles the difficult question of how readily the lessons of the case-in-point approach transfer back into the workplace. May be used with: (2384BC) Leadership for a Changing World: A Call to Adaptive Work; (2385BC) How Do We Begin?: Differing Expectations: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2386BC) What Is Really Going On Here?: Engaging People at the Edge of Learning: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2387BC) Learning from Failure in Public: The Power of Small Group Consultation: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2388BC) Listening to the Music Beneath the Words: The Practice of Presence: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2390BC) Courage and Costs: Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2391BC) The Same Approach — Other Teachers: The Question of Transferability: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2392BC) Toward a More Adequate Myth: The Art of Leadership; (2393BC) Leadership Can Be Learned: Strengths and Limitations of This Approach: Teaching Adaptive Leadership.
  Add   View  24 pp.  Courage and Costs: Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable: Teaching Adaptive Leadership
Author(s): Parks, Sharon D.
Publication Date: 09/22/2005
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2390BC
Subjects: Education; Leadership; Leadership development; Teaching; Teaching methods
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: What does it feel like to create and practice a way of teaching that keeps the teacher on the edge of new learning and under constant scrutiny? This chapter offers a rare opportunity to hear Ronald Heifetz reflect on the genesis of this approach and his own experience of learning to teach in this mode. May be used with: (2384BC) Leadership for a Changing World: A Call to Adaptive Work; (2385BC) How Do We Begin?: Differing Expectations: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2386BC) What Is Really Going On Here?: Engaging People at the Edge of Learning: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2387BC) Learning from Failure in Public: The Power of Small Group Consultation: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2388BC) Listening to the Music Beneath the Words: The Practice of Presence: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2389BC) What Endures?: The Power of Language, Image, and Metaphor: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2391BC) The Same Approach — Other Teachers: The Question of Transferability: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2392BC) Toward a More Adequate Myth: The Art of Leadership; (2393BC) Leadership Can Be Learned: Strengths and Limitations of This Approach: Teaching Adaptive Leadership.
  Add   View  35 pp.  The Same Approach—Other Teachers: The Question of Transferability: Teaching Adaptive Leadership
Author(s): Parks, Sharon D.
Publication Date: 09/22/2005
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2391BC
Subjects: Business education; Education; Executive education; Leadership; Leadership development; Teaching; Teaching methods
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: This chapter introduces several other teachers who have successfully adopted the case-in-point approach and describes how it is modified and evolves when transferred into different contexts, such as other institutions, executive coaching, professional consulting, undergraduate leadership development, and other cultures. May be used with: (2384BC) Leadership for a Changing World: A Call to Adaptive Work; (2385BC) How Do We Begin?: Differing Expectations: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2386BC) What Is Really Going On Here?: Engaging People at the Edge of Learning: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2387BC) Learning from Failure in Public: The Power of Small Group Consultation: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2388BC) Listening to the Music Beneath the Words: The Practice of Presence: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2389BC) What Endures?: The Power of Language, Image, and Metaphor: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2390BC) Courage and Costs: Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2392BC) Toward a More Adequate Myth: The Art of Leadership; (2393BC) Leadership Can Be Learned: Strengths and Limitations of This Approach: Teaching Adaptive Leadership.
  Add   View  37 pp.  Toward a More Adequate Myth: The Art of Leadership
Author(s): Parks, Sharon D.
Publication Date: 09/22/2005
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2392BC
Subjects: Education; Leadership; Leadership development; Teaching methods
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: By comparing today's prevailing command and control models of leadership with an alternative model drawn from the creative process of artists, in this chapter, the author illustrates how this approach helps us all make progress on a central adaptive challenge of our time: the transformation of the prevailing myth of leadership. May be used with: (2384BC) Leadership for a Changing World: A Call to Adaptive Work; (2385BC) How Do We Begin?: Differing Expectations: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2386BC) What Is Really Going On Here?: Engaging People at the Edge of Learning: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2387BC) Learning from Failure in Public: The Power of Small Group Consultation: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2388BC) Listening to the Music Beneath the Words: The Practice of Presence: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2389BC) What Endures?: The Power of Language, Image, and Metaphor: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2390BC) Courage and Costs: Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2391BC) The Same Approach — Other Teachers: The Question of Transferability: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2392BC) Toward a More Adequate Myth: The Art of Leadership.
  Add   View  30 pp.  Leadership Can Be Learned: Strengths and Limitations of This Approach: Teaching Adaptive Leadership
Author(s): Parks, Sharon D.
Publication Date: 09/22/2005
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2393BC
Subjects: Education; Leadership; Leadership development; Teaching; Teaching methods
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: How well does the case-in-point approach teach the art of adaptive leadership on behalf of the common good in today's world? This chapter examines the central strengths of this approach, its limitations, and the questions that remain for further inquiry. May be used with: (2384BC) Leadership for a Changing World: A Call to Adaptive Work; (2385BC) How Do We Begin?: Differing Expectations: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2386BC) What Is Really Going On Here?: Engaging People at the Edge of Learning: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2387BC) Learning from Failure in Public: The Power of Small Group Consultation: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2388BC) Listening to the Music Beneath the Words: The Practice of Presence: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2389BC) What Endures?: The Power of Language, Image, and Metaphor: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2390BC) Courage and Costs: Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2391BC) The Same Approach — Other Teachers: The Question of Transferability: Teaching Adaptive Leadership; (2392BC) Toward a More Adequate Myth: The Art of Leadership.
   The Case Study Handbook: How to Read, Discuss, and Write Persuasively About Cases
  Add   View  8 pp.  Persuasion, Argument, and the Case Method
Author(s): Ellet, William
Publication Date: 04/17/2007
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2447BC
Industry Setting: Business school; Education industry
Subjects: Case method; Education; Faculty & students; HBR case discussions; Learning; Persuasion; Problem solving; Writing
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: This chapter provides an overview of how case-based instruction is used in business and professional school settings, and introduces a new approach to case study that will help students gain a quick and constructive understanding of cases and more effectively employ business concepts that are already part of their working knowledge. May be used with: (2448BC) What Is a Case?; (2449BC) Analyzing a Case; (2450BC) How to Discuss a Case; (2451BC) How to Write a Case-Based Essay.
  Add   View  8 pp.  What Is a Case?
Author(s): Ellet, William
Publication Date: 04/17/2007
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2448BC
Industry Setting: Business school; Education industry
Subjects: Case method; Education; Faculty & students; HBR case discussions; Learning; Problem solving; Writing
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: This chapter describes what a case is and provides some guidelines for reading a case actively and constructing your own meaning. May be used with: (2447BC) Persuasion, Argument, and the Case Method; (2449BC) Analyzing a Case; (2450BC) How to Discuss a Case; (2451BC) How to Write a Case-Based Essay.
  Add   View  19 pp.  How to Analyze a Case
Author(s): Ellet, William
Publication Date: 04/17/2007
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2449BC
Industry Setting: Business school; Education industry
Subjects: Case method; Education; Faculty & students; HBR case discussions; Learning; Problem solving; Writing
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: A case is a text that refuses to explain itself. How do you construct a meaning for it? This chapter discusses in depth a case situation approach that identifies features of a case that can be helpful to its analysis and encourages active reading. May be used with: (2448BC) What Is a Case?; (2447BC) Persuasion, Argument, and the Case Method; (2450BC) How to Discuss a Case; (2451BC) How to Write a Case-Based Essay.
  Add   View  15 pp.  How to Discuss a Case
Author(s): Ellet, William
Publication Date: 04/17/2007
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2450BC
Industry Setting: Business school; Education industry
Subjects: Case method; Education; Faculty & students; HBR case discussions; Learning; Problem solving; Writing
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: Case discussions can be exciting and revelatory, or they can be aimless and seemingly pointless. This chapter provides some guidelines for students who are new to the case method for developing discussion skills. May be used with: (2448BC) What Is a Case?; (2447BC) Persuasion, Argument, and the Case Method; (2449BC) Analyzing a Case; (2451BC) How to Write a Case-Based Essay.
  Add   View  15 pp.  How to Write a Case-Based Essay
Author(s): Ellet, William
Publication Date: 04/17/2007
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 2451BC
Industry Setting: Business school; Education industry
Subjects: Case method; Education; Faculty & students; HBR case discussions; Learning; Persuasion; Problem solving; Writing
Academic Discipline: Teaching & the case method
Product Description: Writing about a case is very different from talking about it. This chapter describes how to organize and write a logical, economical, and convincing case essay. May be used with: (2447BC) Persuasion, Argument, and the Case Method; (2448BC) What Is a Case?; (2449BC) Analyzing a Case; (2450BC) How to Discuss a Case.