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...case study method--now regarded as the academic trademark of the Harvard Business School--has become a fixture across the River since its curriculum-wide introduction in the 1920s...
...School is virtually the only graduate business school in the country that has fully adopted this system, which stresses hands-on experience over abstract approaches. Using the case method, B-School students spend the majority of their class time examining recorded histories of actual workplace problems...
...NISRA decision to use the tiebreaker procedure is a poor method to determine the national champion. All three coaches of the teams involved agreed that there should have been a three...
Leveraged buyouts are an increasingly popular, though controversial, method of taking over companies. The deals--which included the recent, largest-ever takeover of RJR-Nabisco by a limited partnership in which Harvard invested--buy out stockholders in a company using borrowed funds worth up to 80 percent of the buyout price. Only about 20 percent of the investment generally comes in the form of cash up front, which means the company ends up assuming a large debt once the sale is completed...
Billy's mother is personally unreliable, but there is method in her madness. As her son rises to success (or falls, depending on the reader's moral outlook), she follows her own unpredictable route that eventually meets Billy...