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CASE STUDY, by Graeme Macrae Burnet

To get to Primrose Hill from central London, you take the Tube to Chalk Farm Station, exit to your right toward a cafe and an off-license, and climb a path to an overpass above train tracks. The path is called, rather unassumingly, Bridge Approach, and a five-minute walk leads to Primrose Hill. I happened to live in these parts for three years, and I crossed the overpass twice a day most days. Just to the south is the Pembroke Castle pub, where Liam Gallagher of Oasis was once arrested, in 1998. Another neighborhood tippler, Kingsley Amis, favored the Queen’s at the corner of St. George’s Terrace, according to his biographer Zachary Leader, who printed his monthly tab. From my balcony I could see the phone box where Sylvia Plath would desperately call Ted Hughes at his lover’s flat in her last days. It is a quiet neighborhood, but one dense with intrigue and peopled by famous, messy and tortured artistic personages.

The events of Graeme Macrae Burnet’s fourth novel, “Case Study,” are set off by a suicide in the 1960s by a young woman named Veronica, who jumps from the Bridge Approach overpass and is struck by the 4:45 train to High Barnet. (I am not sure that High Barnet trains, rather than Edgware-bound ones, run on this track, nor that the overpass itself, rather than just the path that approaches it, is called Bridge Approach, but these are the sorts of possible slight inaccuracies that Burnet and his not entirely reliable narrators relish.) An investigation into Veronica’s death and the man who might have been responsible for it — her therapist, Arthur Collins Braithwaite, whose office is on Primrose Hill — forms the substance of the narrative. Like Burnet’s previous novel, “ His Bloody Project ” (2016), “Case Study” was nominated for the Booker Prize and consists largely of purportedly found documents.

The would-be Miss Marple of Burnet’s loopy detective story is Veronica’s unnamed younger sister, who, under the alias Rebecca Smyth, becomes Braithwaite’s patient to find out if he drove Veronica to take her own life. Rebecca details her five sessions in notebooks that decades later end up in the hands of a writer named GMB, our frame narrator, who is researching Braithwaite for a potential biography. Now cast into obscurity, the (fictional) therapist was once a figure of note, appearing on BBC chat shows and publishing the books “Untherapy,” a best seller, and “Kill Your Self,” which Rebecca calls “a jumble of incomprehensible sentences, each having no discernible relationship to its neighbors.” Still, we are told by GMB, “Kill Your Self” “captured the zeitgeist,” acquired for its author a cult following from which he drew a lucrative pool of patients, and “if anything, the impenetrability of certain passages only served to confirm the author’s genius.”

“Case Study” consists of a preface, in which GMB explains how he received the notebooks (from Rebecca’s cousin, who noticed a blog post by GMB on Braithwaite); the five notebooks themselves, one of which includes a chapter clipped from “Untherapy” about a patient who is clearly Veronica; five biographical chapters about Braithwaite by GMB, inserted between the notebooks; and a postscript, in which GMB ventures south to pay a visit to the Pembroke Castle. The elegant nested structure is one of the novel’s chief appeals. So is the contrast between Rebecca’s narrative voice, characterized by what GMB calls “a certain kooky élan,” and the cool tone of GMB’s Life of Braithwaite. What emerges is a comedy of identities tried on and discarded. Given the number of suicides that mark the story, it’s a comedy with dark underpinnings.

Rebecca lives with her father, a retired engineer, and their housekeeper, and works as a receptionist for a talent agent. Her mother died when she was 15, falling off a cliff before her eyes, during a family holiday in Devon. Given that Rebecca is the only witness to the fall, and that she admits to fantasizing about pushing someone off the cliff the sentence before recounting her mother’s death, we can’t help suspecting that she might have done it herself. But we have no more reason to doubt it than the rest of her story, and that’s part of the fun: The whole tale might be a hoax.

Unlike Veronica, who was a doctoral student in mathematics at Cambridge, Rebecca is not very ambitious. She’s an erstwhile fiction writer, having given up on writing after the one story she published in Women’s Journal didn’t have editors banging down the door for more. She is a homebody, happy to tend to her father and not be a “Modern Independent Woman.” She attests to being a virgin, and so becoming Rebecca Smyth means becoming someone else: the sort of woman who puts on lipstick, attends glamorous parties and drinks gin with gentlemen at the Pembridge Castle (as she calls the Pembroke Castle). Since she is not really that sort of woman, drinking even a little gin causes her to vomit in the bathroom the first time she tries it.

Braithwaite is also someone who puts on new identities, but at the same time he’s a recognizable English type: the humble boy from northern England who goes down to Oxford after the war and reinvents himself as a kind of romantic rogue. “Case Study” has a lot in common with the novels of Vladimir Nabokov and Roberto Bolaño, in which invented characters pass through tumultuous episodes of literary history that never quite happened, though it seems as if they should have. Braithwaite brushes against real-life figures, engaging in hostile correspondence with the psychiatrist R.D. Laing and becoming a confidant of the actor Dirk Bogarde. After an overblown scandal consumes his therapeutic practice and sets him off on a bender, he winds up back at the home of his father (another suicide) in the North, where he writes his unpublished memoir, “My Self and Other Strangers.” It is the source, we are told, of GMB’s biographical reconstructions.

“Case Study” is a diverting novel, overflowing with clever plays on and inversions of tropes of English intellectual and social life during the postwar decades. As such, it is not exactly an excursion into undiscovered literary terrain. Reading Burnet’s doubly mediated metafiction of North London neurotics and decadents, I often longed to turn back to the shelf for the real thing: fictions by Doris Lessing, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Muriel Spark, Jenny Diski, Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst, Zadie Smith or Rachel Cusk; biographies of Plath and Hughes; films of kitchen-sink realism starring Bogarde and Laurence Harvey, with scripts by Harold Pinter; or even the documentaries of Adam Curtis, in which Laing often makes a cameo. It’s a compliment to put “Case Study” in that company and no insult to say that Burnet must have done his homework to get there. I imagine he lives in a flat full of piles of yellowing copies of The Times Literary Supplement, every issue a catalog of obscurities from across time. Humble children from the provinces who want to reinvent themselves have to get the stuff of their daydreams from somewhere.

Christian Lorentzen’s work has appeared in The London Review of Books, Bookforum and Harper’s Magazine.

CASE STUDY | By Graeme Macrae Burnet | 278 pp. | Biblioasis | Paperback, $17.95

An earlier version of this review misstated R.D. Laing’s profession. He was a psychiatrist, not a psychologist.

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by Graeme Macrae Burnet ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 2022

A brisk and engaging novel that wears itself thin on the grindstone of its own conceit.

A provocative send-up of midcentury British mores and the roots of modern psychotherapy.

Toward the end of 2019, GMB, a character with the author's initials, receives an email from one Martin Grey, who has in his possession several notebooks he believes GMB might find of interest. Mr. Grey asserts that the notebooks were written by his cousin about Collins Braithwaite, the notorious and now largely forgotten “ enfant terrible of the so-called anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s,” on whom GMB has recently published a blog post. According to Grey, the notebooks contain evidence of near-criminal misconduct concerning Braithwaite’s involvement in the suicide of the diarist’s older sister, Veronica. GMB’s research assures him of the notebooks’ authenticity, if not their veracity, and he presents their contents verbatim, interspersed with sections of his own outline of Braithwaite’s salacious life and ignoble death. From the plinth of this metatextual introduction, the book dives into the “kooky élan” of a thoroughly middle-class young woman—the diarist—as she infiltrates Braithwaite’s office under the nom de guerre Rebecca Smyth. Rebecca is bent on uncovering the truth about Braithwaite’s therapeutic practice though she’s unsure what purpose this truth would serve. However, over the course of the five notebooks, Rebecca’s rapid descent into true depression coupled with her increasing difficulty in keeping her original identity separate from her assumed self become the driving narrative. As the novel progresses, the author’s layering of his fictional characters’ unverifiable testimony, frank deception, and self-aggrandizing half-truths with significant historical figures of the time—like R.D. Laing and Dirk Bogarde—and GMB's omnipresent frame narrative overlap to the extent that it's hard to tell not just whose perception to trust, but which among all these counterfeit identities is real. As beguiling as Rebecca’s wry domestic critique can be, the book’s star is clearly the carefully constructed unreliability Burnet imbues at every level of his writing. This results in a novel that strives toward the biggest of questions—in the absence of the Cartesian ego Braithwaite seeks to slay, is there anything at all underneath our masks?—but lacks the character-driven empathy that would encourage us to care about the answer.

Pub Date: Nov. 1, 2022

ISBN: 978-1-77196-520-0

Page Count: 288

Publisher: Biblioasis

Review Posted Online: July 25, 2022

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 2022

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When we learn that the farewell party in the opening scene is for Frances “Frankie” McGrath’s older brother—“a golden boy, a wild child who could make the hardest heart soften”—who is leaving to serve in Vietnam in 1966, we feel pretty certain that poor Finley McGrath is marked for death. Still, it’s a surprise when the fateful doorbell rings less than 20 pages later. His death inspires his sister to enlist as an Army nurse, and this turn of events is just the beginning of a roller coaster of a plot that’s impressive and engrossing if at times a bit formulaic. Hannah renders the experiences of the young women who served in Vietnam in all-encompassing detail. The first half of the book, set in gore-drenched hospital wards, mildewed dorm rooms, and boozy officers’ clubs, is an exciting read, tracking the transformation of virginal, uptight Frankie into a crack surgical nurse and woman of the world. Her tensely platonic romance with a married surgeon ends when his broken, unbreathing body is airlifted out by helicopter; she throws her pent-up passion into a wild affair with a soldier who happens to be her dead brother’s best friend. In the second part of the book, after the war, Frankie seems to experience every possible bad break. A drawback of the story is that none of the secondary characters in her life are fully three-dimensional: Her dismissive, chauvinistic father and tight-lipped, pill-popping mother, her fellow nurses, and her various love interests are more plot devices than people. You’ll wish you could have gone to Vegas and placed a bet on the ending—while it’s against all the odds, you’ll see it coming from a mile away.

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One of the noblest characters in American literature gets a novel worthy of him.

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as told from the perspective of a more resourceful and contemplative Jim than the one you remember.

This isn’t the first novel to reimagine Twain’s 1885 masterpiece, but the audacious and prolific Everett dives into the very heart of Twain’s epochal odyssey, shifting the central viewpoint from that of the unschooled, often credulous, but basically good-hearted Huck to the more enigmatic and heroic Jim, the Black slave with whom the boy escapes via raft on the Mississippi River. As in the original, the threat of Jim’s being sold “down the river” and separated from his wife and daughter compels him to run away while figuring out what to do next. He's soon joined by Huck, who has faked his own death to get away from an abusive father, ramping up Jim’s panic. “Huck was supposedly murdered and I’d just run away,” Jim thinks. “Who did I think they would suspect of the heinous crime?” That Jim can, as he puts it, “[do] the math” on his predicament suggests how different Everett’s version is from Twain’s. First and foremost, there's the matter of the Black dialect Twain used to depict the speech of Jim and other Black characters—which, for many contemporary readers, hinders their enjoyment of his novel. In Everett’s telling, the dialect is a put-on, a manner of concealment, and a tactic for survival. “White folks expect us to sound a certain way and it can only help if we don’t disappoint them,” Jim explains. He also discloses that, in violation of custom and law, he learned to read the books in Judge Thatcher’s library, including Voltaire and John Locke, both of whom, in dreams and delirium, Jim finds himself debating about human rights and his own humanity. With and without Huck, Jim undergoes dangerous tribulations and hairbreadth escapes in an antebellum wilderness that’s much grimmer and bloodier than Twain’s. There’s also a revelation toward the end that, however stunning to devoted readers of the original, makes perfect sense.

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Page Count: 320

Publisher: Doubleday

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Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, David Wessels

2020 - At the crossroads of corporate strategy and finance lies valuation. This book enables everyone, from the budding professional to the seasoned manager, to excel at measuring and maximizing shareholder and company value.

Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill that Changes Everything

Charles Conn and Robert McLean

2019 – This book outlines a seven-step, systematic approach to creative problem solving that will work in any field or industry, helping to transform the way you approach problems and take you to the next level of business and personal success.

Go Long: Why Long-term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy

Dennis Carey, Brian Dumaine, Michael Useem, and Rodney Zemmel

2018 – Inspired by an annual off-the-record gathering of chief executives organized by the authors, Go Long reveals how some of the world’s most prominent business leaders resisted short-term pressures to successfully manage their organizations for the long term.

Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick: People, Probabilities, and Big Moves to Beat the Odds

Chris Bradley , Martin Hirt , and Sven Smit

2018 – Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick is about unlocking big moves because that’s what it takes to beat the odds in business. Anchored in empirical evidence from 1000s of companies, it reveals what really matters and what doesn’t for exceptional performance.

No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

Richard Dobbs, James Manyika , and Jonathan Woetzel

2015 – The world not only feels different. The data tell us it is different. This book is a timely and important analysis of how we need to reset our intuition as a result of four forces colliding and transforming the global economy.

In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best Run Companies

Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman

2006 – Based on a study of 43 of America’s best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, this book describes eight basic principles of management that made these organizations successful.

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Beyond Performance 2.0

Scott Keller and Bill Schaninger

2019 – Beyond Performance 2.0 more than doubles your odds of successfully leading significant, sustainable change by applying equal levels of insight and rigor to the “hard” and “soft” elements that matter.

Leadership at Scale

Claudio Feser, Michael Rennie, and Nicolai Chen Nielsen

2018 – Leadership at Scale provides leaders with the systematic and fact-based leadership development approach they need to unlock organizational performance in today’s fast-paced business environment.

Leading Organizations: Ten Timeless Truths

Scott Keller and Mary Meaney

2017 – Leading Organizations identifies the most challenging organizational issues leaders face, providing the hard facts, big ideas, and practical “how to” steps to address those issues.

When Execution Isn’t Enough: Decoding Inspirational Leadership

Claudio Feser

2016 – Inspired people have the energy and persistence needed to achieve extraordinary results and transform organizations. This book shows what it takes to win the minds and hearts of the people you lead.

Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society

John Browne, Robin Nuttall , and Tommy Stadlen

2016 – Drawing on the experience of John Browne, the former CEO of BP, and the insight of two McKinsey experts, this book articulates and explores the recurring rift between big business and society, offering a practical manifesto for reconciliation.

Centered Leadership: A Breakthrough Program for Leading with Purpose, Clarity, and Impact

Joanna Barsh and Johanne Lavoie

2014 – By studying the stories of leaders and working with Fortune 100 companies, Joanna Barsh and Johanne Lavoie explore why some talented people rise to the top and create positive and sustained impact, while others stop short of their full leadership potential.

How Remarkable Women Lead: The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life

Joanna Barsh, Susie Cranston Hamilton, and Geoffrey Lewis

2011 – This book presents unique ideas about successful leadership. Personal stories and related insights show how success results from combining the five elements of centered leadership: meaning, framing, connecting, engaging, and energizing.

Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth from Talent in the 21st-Century Organization

Lowell Bryan and Claudia Joyce

2007 – By tapping into employees’ talents, knowledge, and skills, you can earn tens of thousands of additional dollars per employee, and manage the barriers that prevent real achievements. This can only be done through organizational design and redesign.

Fast Times: How Digital Winners Set Direction, Learn, and Adapt

Arun Arora , Peter Dahlstrom , Klemens Hjartar , and Florian Wunderlich

2020 – Today’s technology demands lightning-fast changes. But speed without purpose is not progress. McKinsey leaders cut through the hype to provide an inside look into what digital winners do best: set direction, learn, and adapt faster than anyone else.

Digital @ Scale: The Playbook You Need to Transform Your Company

Jürgen Meffert and Anand Swaminathan

2017 – Value in the next phase of the digital era will go to those companies that don’t just try digital but also scale it. This book examines what it takes to break through the gravitational pull of legacy organizations and capture the full value of digital.

Beyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business

James M. Kaplan , Tucker Bailey , Derek O’Halloran, Alan Marcus, and Chris Rezek

2015 – Founded upon proprietary research, client experience, and interviews with over 200 executives, regulators, and security experts, this text arms your company against devastating online security breaches.

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Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First

Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey

2018 – Written for CEOs and leaders across the organization, Talent Wins provides a much-needed framework for transforming how companies acquire, manage, and deploy talent—for today’s agile, digital, analytical, technologically driven strategic environment.

YOU: The Positive Force in Change!

Eileen Rogers and Nick van Dam

2018 – The human brain is wired to resist change. In this book, leadership experts Eileen Rogers and Nick van Dam share insights and methods to making the transition to a more consultative, “emotionally intelligent” approach to leading change.

Mastering Coaching: Practical Insights for Developing High Performance

Max Landsberg

2016 – This book summarizes the most important research in areas such as neuroscience, sports psychology, mindfulness, and goal-setting and offers a practical guide to how this new thinking can help coaches and managers to develop their own coaching practice.

How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life

Caroline Webb

2016 – In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life.

Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation

Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

2015 – Primed to Perform explains the counter-intuitive science behind great cultures, building on over a century of academic thinking.

The Tao of Coaching

1996 – To get the most out of individual employees, companies and managers are turning to coaching as a means of enhancing performance. This practical guide shows how to develop the necessary habits and skills needed to become a good coach.

Marketing & Sales

Marketing Performance: How Marketers Drive Profitable Growth

Thomas Bauer, Tjark Freundt , Jonathan Gordon, Jesko Perrey , and Dennis Spillecke

2016 – This book addresses the most pressing marketing performance questions for CMOs who have an investor’s mindset. This isn’t a work of theory. It’s a hands-on guide to better marketing, neatly packaged into ten concise chapters.

Power Brands: Measuring, Making, and Managing Brand Success

Jesko Perrey , Tjark Freundt , and Dennis Spillecke

2015 – What distinguishes a brand-name product? How can companies enhance the value of their brands? What steps can executives take to manage their brands successfully? Answers to these and other questions can be found with McKinsey’s BrandMatics-Konzept.

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The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, and Problem Solving

Barbara Minto

1996 – This work has been designed as an aid to the logical presentation of business communications. Topics covered range from the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning to a discussion of how to highlight the structure of information.

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“The book is filled with tips to the researcher on how to master the craft of doing research overall and specifically how to account for multi-layered cases.”

“Yin covers all of the basic and advanced knowledge for conducting case study and why they are useful for specific research studies without getting lost in the weeds.”

“The applications enhance the original material because it gives the reader concrete examples.”

“Yin is much more in-depth on case study methods both within a general qualitative text and any other case study text I have seen.”

On demand used as recommendation for basic literature for case study research

An essential reading for people doing case studies.

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Very good introduction to Case Study design. I have used case study approach for my PhD study. I would recommend this book for an indepth understanding of case study design for research projects.

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The book is a really good introduction to case study research and is full of useful examples. I will recommend as the definitive source for students interested in pursuing this further in their projects.

In our Doctor of Ministerial Leadership (DML), Case Study is the Methodology that is required in this program. Robert Yin's book provides the foundational knowledge needed to conduct research using his Case Study design.

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• Includes 11 in-depth applications that show how researchers have implemented case study methods successfully.
• Increases reference to relativist and constructivist approaches to case study research, as well as how case studies can be part of mixed methods projects.
• Places greater emphasis on using plausible rival explanations to bolster case study quality.
• Discusses synthesizing findings across case studies in a multiple-case study in more detail.
• Adds an expanded list of 15 fields that have text or texts devoted to case study research.
• Sharpens discussion of distinguishing research from non-research case studies.
• The author brings to light at least three remaining gaps to be filled in the future:
• how rival explanations can become more routinely integrated into all case study research;
• the difference between case-based and variable-based approaches to designing and analyzing case studies; and
• the relationship between case study research and qualitative research.

KEY FEATURES:

• Numerous conceptual exercises, illustrative exhibits, vignettes, and a glossary make the book eminently accessible.
• Boxes throughout offer more in-depth real-world examples of research.
• Short, sidebar tips help succinctly explain concepts and allow students to check their understanding.
• Exercises throughout offer students the chance to immediately apply their knowledge.

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Top 40 Most Popular Case Studies of 2021

Two cases about Hertz claimed top spots in 2021's Top 40 Most Popular Case Studies

Two cases on the uses of debt and equity at Hertz claimed top spots in the CRDT’s (Case Research and Development Team) 2021 top 40 review of cases.

Hertz (A) took the top spot. The case details the financial structure of the rental car company through the end of 2019. Hertz (B), which ranked third in CRDT’s list, describes the company’s struggles during the early part of the COVID pandemic and its eventual need to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 

The success of the Hertz cases was unprecedented for the top 40 list. Usually, cases take a number of years to gain popularity, but the Hertz cases claimed top spots in their first year of release. Hertz (A) also became the first ‘cooked’ case to top the annual review, as all of the other winners had been web-based ‘raw’ cases.

Besides introducing students to the complicated financing required to maintain an enormous fleet of cars, the Hertz cases also expanded the diversity of case protagonists. Kathyrn Marinello was the CEO of Hertz during this period and the CFO, Jamere Jackson is black.

Sandwiched between the two Hertz cases, Coffee 2016, a perennial best seller, finished second. “Glory, Glory, Man United!” a case about an English football team’s IPO made a surprise move to number four.  Cases on search fund boards, the future of malls,  Norway’s Sovereign Wealth fund, Prodigy Finance, the Mayo Clinic, and Cadbury rounded out the top ten.

Other year-end data for 2021 showed:

• Online “raw” case usage remained steady as compared to 2020 with over 35K users from 170 countries and all 50 U.S. states interacting with 196 cases.
• Fifty four percent of raw case users came from outside the U.S..
• The Yale School of Management (SOM) case study directory pages received over 160K page views from 177 countries with approximately a third originating in India followed by the U.S. and the Philippines.
• Twenty-six of the cases in the list are raw cases.
• A third of the cases feature a woman protagonist.
• Orders for Yale SOM case studies increased by almost 50% compared to 2020.
• The top 40 cases were supervised by 19 different Yale SOM faculty members, several supervising multiple cases.

CRDT compiled the Top 40 list by combining data from its case store, Google Analytics, and other measures of interest and adoption.

All of this year’s Top 40 cases are available for purchase from the Yale Management Media store .

And the Top 40 cases studies of 2021 are:

1.   Hertz Global Holdings (A): Uses of Debt and Equity

2.   Coffee 2016

3.   Hertz Global Holdings (B): Uses of Debt and Equity 2020

4.   Glory, Glory Man United!

5.   Search Fund Company Boards: How CEOs Can Build Boards to Help Them Thrive

6.   The Future of Malls: Was Decline Inevitable?

7.   Strategy for Norway's Pension Fund Global

8.   Prodigy Finance

9.   Design at Mayo

10. Cadbury

11. City Hospital Emergency Room

13. Volkswagen

14. Marina Bay Sands

15. Shake Shack IPO

16. Mastercard

17. Netflix

18. Ant Financial

19. AXA: Creating the New CR Metrics

20. IBM Corporate Service Corps

21. Business Leadership in South Africa's 1994 Reforms

22. Alternative Meat Industry

23. Children's Premier

24. Khalil Tawil and Umi (A)

25. Palm Oil 2016

26. Teach For All: Designing a Global Network

27. What's Next? Search Fund Entrepreneurs Reflect on Life After Exit

28. Searching for a Search Fund Structure: A Student Takes a Tour of Various Options

30. Project Sammaan

31. Commonfund ESG

32. Polaroid

33. Connecticut Green Bank 2018: After the Raid

34. FieldFresh Foods

35. The Alibaba Group

36. 360 State Street: Real Options

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Hacking the Case Interview

Where can I find MBA Consulting Casebooks?

Below, you will find links to download MBA consulting casebooks from 23 different business schools. These casebooks will provide you with over 700 practice cases that you can use to hone your case interview skills. These cases are a great supplement to the practice cases that consulting firms provide .

The year indicates when the consulting casebook was published. Some consulting clubs publish a new casebook each year while others may use the same casebook for multiple years. Therefore, even the older casebooks can still contain valuable practice cases.

If you’re looking for a step-by-step shortcut to learn case interviews quickly,  enroll in our case interview course . These insider strategies from a former Bain interviewer helped 30,000+ land consulting offers while saving hundreds of hours of prep time.

• Australian Graduate School of Management (2002)
• Booth (2005)
• Columbia (2007)
• Darden (2019)
• ESADE (2011)
• Fuqua (2018)
• Goizueta (2006)
• Haas (2019)
• Harvard Business School (2012)
• Illinois (2015)
• INSEAD (2011)
• Johnson (2003)
• Kellogg (2012)
• London Business School (2013)
• McCombs (2018)
• Notre Dame (2017)
• Queens (2019)
• Ross (2010)
• Sloan (2015)
• Stern (2018)
• Tuck (2009)
• Wharton (2017)
• Yale (2013)

What are Consulting Casebooks?

Consulting casebooks are documents that MBA consulting clubs put together to help their members prepare for consulting case interviews. Consulting casebooks provide some case interview strategies and tips, but they mostly contain case interview practice cases.

While consulting casebooks contain tons of practice cases, there is quite a bit of variety in the sources and formats of these cases.

Some practice cases are taken from actual consulting interviews given by consulting firms. These are the best types of cases to practice with because they closely simulate the length and difficulty of an actual case interview. Other practice cases may be written by the consulting club’s officers. These cases are less realistic, but can still offer great practice.

The formats of the practice cases in consulting casebooks also vary significantly.

Some practice cases are written in a question and answer format. This type of format makes it easy to practice the case by yourself, without a case partner. Other practices cases are written in a dialogue format. These cases are better for practicing with a case interview partner.

How do I use Casebooks to Practice Case Interviews?

How you should use consulting casebooks depends on whether you are practicing cases by yourself or practicing cases with a case partner.

Practicing Cases by Yourself

If you are trying to practice cases by yourself, you will need to find cases that are written in a question and answer format. Only in this format can you read the question, answer it, and then move onto the next question without getting any case spoilers.

To practice cases by yourself, read the case background. Then, summarize the case information out loud, verify the objective to yourself, and then ask clarifying questions out loud.

You likely won’t be able to answer any questions that you have by yourself, but talking to yourself out loud is good practice because it simulates what you would do in a real case interview.

Afterwards, take a few minutes to write out your case interview framework. Treat this like a real case interview, so don’t give yourself unlimited time to think about how you would structure your approach. When you have your framework written out, talk through it like you are explaining it to an interviewer.

Next, move onto the first case question. For each case question, talk through your thinking out loud as if you were in a real interview. If there is math involved, make sure you talk through your calculations out loud.

Once you have finished answering each case question, provide your final recommendation out loud. Make sure to suggest potential next steps.

Now that you have finished the case, you can review your answers and compare them to the sample answers. Try to identify areas of improvement or things that you could have done better.

For a comprehensive guide on how to practice case interviews by yourself, without a case partner, read this article .

Practicing Cases with a Case Partner

If you are practicing with a case partner, decide who is going to be giving the case and who is going to be receiving the case.

If you are giving the case, read the entire case information carefully. It may be helpful to read through everything twice so that you are familiar with all of the information and can answer any question that your partner asks you to clarify.

As the person giving the case, you need to be the case expert.

You should become familiar with the overall direction of the case. In other words, you should know what the major questions of the case are and what the major areas of investigation are. This will help you run the mock case interview more smoothly.  

Depending on whether you want the case interview to be interviewer-led or candidate-led, you will need to decide how much you want to steer the direction of the case.

If your partner gets stuck and is taking a long time, you may need to step in and provide suggestions or hints. If your partner is proceeding down a wrong direction, you will need to direct them towards the right direction.

Caveats to Using MBA Consulting Casebooks

In general, MBA consulting casebooks are great resources because they are free and provide tons of practice cases to hone your case interview skills. However, there are several caveats that you should be aware of.

1. Similarity to Real Case Interviews

Some cases in MBA consulting casebooks are not representative of actual case interviews because they are written by consulting club officers instead of interviewers from consulting firms.

For example, some cases may be too short or too long in length. Some cases could also be too technical or may require you to have specialized knowledge. If you come across a case that is way too complicated or way too simple, keep in mind that the case may not be representative of an actual case interview.

2. Quality of Sample Answers

While consulting casebooks provide sample solutions, these answers are often not the best or highest quality answers. If you use the answers in casebooks as your benchmark for what a great answer looks like, you may not be learning the best way to answer case interview questions.

3. Ease of Use

Consulting casebooks are all written in different formats and by different people. Therefore, it can be challenging to find cases that you can consistently use to practice cases by yourself or with a partner.

Case information may be written in an unorganized way. The main questions of the case may be hidden in the case background information or in the answers. You’ll have to learn the best way to read and digest each case in each casebook.

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The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business seeks to develop action-oriented leaders who better society. The school emphasises a student-centered, case-method approach to learning and an integrated curriculum that provides graduates with both functional mastery and an enterprise perspective. 

Darden's highly ranked faculty utilises hands-on knowledge of business issues gained through case studies, a robust executive education program, and diverse corporate partnerships to find solutions to issues that significantly impact the marketplace. Faculty-led teams work with students, corporate leaders and government, community, and public policy organisations to address management priorities around the globe. 

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The Darden Case Collection contains thousands of cases, technical notes, and teaching notes in both digital and text format. Darden cases generate discussion, foster classroom interaction, and help students learn to analyse problems and communicate ideas and solutions. The Darden Case Collection covers a diversity of topics including:

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• Dr Oscar Vorobjovas-Pinta, Edith Cowan University

Aims of the book

After the successful implementation of the first book (Sigala, Yeark, Presbury, Fang & Smith, 2021) titled Case-based research in tourism, travel, hospitality and events , the case study project is back with the aim to produce a second book in 2022. The repercussions of COVID-19 on tourism have magnified the need and urgency to use case studies as a research and pedagogical method. Case based research empowers scholars to investigate issues in greater depth in order to explore, challenge and update the applicability and validity of existing theories and knowledge. Case-based instructional methods can also better equip tourism, hospitality and events graduates in the post-COVID-19 era with industry-specific and transferable skills by understanding and relating theories to practice (Sigala, 2011). In addition, by disrupting and transforming all tourism stakeholders, the pandemic has generated numerous opportunities for ‘case studies’ to be explored.

Case study based research has been long recognised as a robust and solid research methodology for not only understanding and critically analysing industry practices but also for theorising and building new knowledge. Since their first article (Brodie et al, 2008) arguing the importance to build theories by linking theory and practice, a series of papers have emerged (e.g. Brodie & De Chernatony, 2009; Brodie & Gustafsson, 2016; Brodie et al., 2011; George, 2019) showing the value of combining the theoretical language and perspectives with those of industry professionals for advancing research and theorising in various contexts such as branding, strategy, service research, marketing and service-dominant logic.

Case-based research and industry case studies form an important part of educational practice. As an instructional method, learning from and through case studies is more engaging, attractive and interesting. Such learning method can also enable students to better understand the theory, develop their critical and analytical skills, and advance their problem-solving and theory-development skills (Bryan & Clegg, 2019). As an assessment method, case studies can reinforce active and constructivist learning approaches. It also prevents students’ passive memorising and academic misconduct issues. In this vein, case studies as a learning evaluation instrument is an ideal method both in blended and virtual educational contexts.

This book aims to exploit the fertile research ground that the COVID-19 pandemic has created for case-based research and education. The book specifically calls for case studies that aim to rethink tourism theory and practice in the next normal. However, the book is not dedicated only to COVID-19 related research. The book will also consider and publish worthy cases relating to any aspects pertaining to the current wider tourism industry (i.e. tourism, travel, events, festivals, cruising, destinations, hotels, resorts and hospitality), but all cases would need to reflect how their findings and implications relate to the post-COVID-19 tourism reality. To that end, the book is looking for case studies that investigate topical and contemporary industry challenges and practices, and debate their implications in the next normal. The published cases should help us advance tourism research and enrich our instructional and pedagogical practices.

Case studies and their teaching notes, will be published as book chapters in a book to be published by Springer later in 2022. The case study publication project is endorsed and supported by CAUTHE .

Submission guidelines

Case studies need to focus on the tourism, travel, hospitality and events sectors. Case studies can refer to any subject area and/or disciplinary field (e.g., marketing, strategy, human resources, operations, technology, and finance). Case studies should reflect the specific theme of the book (i.e. rethinking of theory and practice) and debate why such rethinking is required due to current changes such as the COVID-19 repercussions.

All case studies and teaching notes will undergo a double-blind peer review process by two or more reviewers. Authors can submit more than one case study, however, all case studies must be original work. Case studies are not eligible for consideration if published previously in either abstract, paper, or manuscript format, nationally and internationally. The editors may use authentication software for checking the originality of submissions received.

Submissions must include a Case Study and associated Teaching Note . Each research Case Study should be limited to 5,500 words. Teaching Note should be limited to 1,000 words and provide instructions to scholars on how to use the case study for educational purposes.

Case studies must be factual, and be developed from multiple sources, including primary sourced data (e.g., observations, interviews). Case studies can also refer to a fictional company, destination, organisation and/or other stakeholders. Case studies referring to real cases should be accompanied by a release form signed-off by the involved company/stakeholder providing permission to use and publish proprietary and/or personal content. Secondary-source cases would need to make a significant contribution beyond the initial secondary sources.

The accompanying Teaching Note should apply recent theoretical perspectives to the appropriate learning activities detailed.

Submissions must be prepared in accordance with the following guidelines specifying the structure and content of case studies and teaching notes. Submissions must not exceed 6,500 words in total, including a bibliography and any appendix.

Case Study requirements

• Maximum 5,500 words
• Abstract (150 words)
• Keywords: maximum of 7
• Outline the purpose of the case study
• Provide a scenario of the case study
• Describe the field/context of research (e.g., an overview of the company)
• Outline the issues and findings of the case study without the specific details
• Identify the theory that will be used
• Introduce the protagonist(s) facing a decision dilemma
• Note any assumptions made (e.g., it has been assumed that…)
• Check that the opening paragraph contains information on what, who, why, where and when
• Identify the problems found in the case
• Each analysis of a problem should be supported by facts given in the case together with the relevant theory and course concepts
• Search for the underlying problems and not only the symptoms
• It can be divided into sub-sections, one for each problem
• Tell the whole story in a chronological order
• Explain and give details of the issues faced by the firm
• more than one side to the story
• revolves around at least one major issue that is easy to identify but not necessarily easy to resolve
• uses quotations from interviewees or stakeholders of the case
• Write neutrally
• Do not provide any diagnosis or prognosis
• Use sub-headings to allow the reader to follow the story and find information easily
• Do not provide any analysis or ‘lessons learned’ in the case. Leave that for the teaching note.
• Summarise the major problem(s)
• Identify alternative solutions/scenarios/dilemmas to this/these major problem(s) (there is likely to be more than one solution per problem)
• Briefly outline each alternative solution and then evaluate it in terms of its advantages and disadvantages
• No need to refer to theory or coursework here
• Sum up the main points from the findings and discussion
• Graphic or visual aids such as budgets, organisational charts, mission statements or technical specifications
• Press releases
• (online) Videos
• Interviews, podcasts

Teaching Note requirements

• Maximum 1,000 words
• a brief description of the case and its context
• 2-4 specific objectives
• explain why these are important and relevant for the course
• target group, courses or class level/ level of difficulty for which the case was written
• identify specific prerequisites (what are the students assumed to master before the case is taught). If multiple target audiences, discuss different teaching strategies
• ask ‘good’ trigger questions
• provide suggestions for group work, student assignments, role-playing, case study based exam etc
• provide suggestions for a teaching plan: suggested class time, broken down by topics, an indication of the case’s demands on course time-tabling
• Provide an update of ‘what actually happened’, if this is known
• Provide examples of REAL sample answers, both outstanding ones and marginal ones (or even incorrect ones)
• A case may not have a single correct answer. Try to highlight the diversity of opinions and approaches
• The analysis should offer comprehensive answers to the list of questions and should, at least, be as thorough as one would expect from the best student
• If the case includes quantitative data, it might suggest ways of utilising the data, and should ideally include the details of any spread-sheet analysis. At the very least it should indicate the techniques to be used for analysing the data.
• suggested additional readings should be listed if it is necessary (or helpful) for students to read text or other material in conjunction with the case
• If the case study has been used for educational purposes already, then it should indicate how the case worked with different student groups, where possible indicating the case’s suitability for written assessment or examination, role-playing, or other forms of use
• Where known, it might also include the actual outcome of the case situation and some follow-up facts

Submission platform

• Submit the Case Study and the Teaching Note as a single file .
• Make sure the file does not include any author(s) details as it will be used for the blind peer review process.
• Submit your case study and teaching note at Easychair .

Prizes and awards

There are awards for the best submissions (all submissions will go through a peer-review process):

• Best case study: one free online registration for the CAUTHE 2023 Conference (winner will present the case study at the conference), extra book copy, certificate and recognition/promotion
• Highly commended case study: free CAUTHE membership for a year, extra book copy, certificate and recognition/promotion
• Case study and teaching note submission deadline: 31 March 2022 (EXTENDED DEADLINE!)
• Notification to authors: 31 May 2022
• Finalisation of review process and acceptance decisions: 30 August 2022
• Book publication: late 2022

Email: Marianna Sigala, Editor in Chief, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management

• Brodie, R. J., & De Chernatony, L. (2009). Towards new conceptualisations of branding: theories of the middle range. Marketing Theory ,  9 (1), 95-100.
• Brodie, R. J., & Gustafsson, A. (2016). Enhancing theory development in service research.  Journal of Service Management ,  27 (1), 2-8.
• Brodie, R. J., Saren, M., & Pels, J. (2011). sTheorising about the service dominant logic: The bridging role of middle range theory.  Marketing theory ,  11 (1), 75-91.
• Brodie, R., Brady, M., Saren, M., & Pels, J. (2008). A comment on paradox and middle‐range theory: universality, synthesis and supplement.  Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing .
• Bryan, C., & Clegg, K. (2019), Innovative Assessments in Higher Education: A handbook for academic practitioners , 2 nd edition, Routledge.
• George, A. L. (2019). Case studies and theory development: The method of structured, focused comparison. In  Alexander L. George: A Pioneer in Political and Social Sciences, 191-214, Springer, Cham.
• Sigala, M. (2021). Re-thinking of tourism and hospitality education when nothing is normal: restart, recover or rebuild. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research , Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 920 – 923
• Sigala, M., Yeark, A., Presbury, R., Fang, M. & Smith, K. (2021). Case Based Research in Tourism, Travel, Hospitality and Events. Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-981-16-4670-6

Additional references on case study writing

• Monash University. IT Case Study. Writing a Case Study
• Monash University. Management Case Study. L & L Online tutorial
• Kimberly, N & Crosling, G 2005. Q Manual, Monash University, Caulfield East, Vic, pp.47-49
• Colorado State University. Case studies
• Colorado State University. Teaching with the Case Method

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