Business cases: what are they, why do we use them and how should you go about doing a case analysis?

Sallai, Dorottya ORCID: 0000-0003-3411-4818 and Pepper, Alexander ORCID: 0000-0003-4927-809X (2025) Business cases: what are they, why do we use them and how should you go about doing a case analysis? In: Sallai, Dorottya and Pepper, Alexander, (eds.) Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management. LSE Press, London, UK, 1 - 13. ISBN 9781911712381

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Abstract

In this introductory capture we consider the history of case teaching in US business schools, the difference between the ‘Harvard’ and ‘Chicago’ approaches to management education, why at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) we find merit in both approaches, how the application of theory helps to elucidate cases, and how cases provide a laboratory for exploring management decision-making. We go on to explain the Introduction–Facts–Theory–Analysis–Conclusion approach to writing a case analysis.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Authors
Divisions:	Management
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Date Deposited:	10 Jul 2025 10:24
Last Modified:	10 Jul 2025 23:19
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/128747

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