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OUR MISSION:

HARVARD BUSINESS PUBLISHING is a nonprofit, wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University. We publish management ideas in formats including print, digital print, and eLearning to address the needs of educational institutions, corporations, and individual managers. The Harvard Businss Publishing Higher Education group provides participant- centered course materials that stimulate students’ thinking and prepare learners for managerial decision making. Harvard Business Publishing course materials are ideal for undergraduate, MBA, and executive education programs.

TO IMPROVE THE PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT AND ITS IMPACT IN A CHANGING WORLD

WHY PARTICIPANT-CENTERED LEARNING? Pioneered by Harvard Business School faculty in the 1920s, the case method brings real-life business dilemmas to life in the classroom. Students enjoy the lively, participatory nature of an approach that enables them to play an active role in the learning process by developing strategies, tactics, and solutions.

A study by the National Training Laboratories on learning methods found that participatory teaching methods lead to high levels of learning retention among students. Participant-centered learning (PCL) supports holistic learning for the real world by going beyond the ‘knowing’ (facts and frameworks) aspect of the learning process, and emphasizing the ‘doing’ (execution) and ‘being’ (self-awareness and values) aspects.

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AVERAGE RETENTION RATES*

Participatory Teaching Methods

Passive Teaching Methods

Teach Others

Practice

Group Discussion

Demonstration

Audiovisual

Reading

Lecture

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75%

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*Adapted from National Training Laboratories for Applied Behavioral Science.

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CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING THE CASE METHOD IN INDIA

The Indian education system has a unique set of challenges for implementing participant-centered learning:

¡ Instructors have limited time for research and preparation and may have limited exposure to the case method pedagogy.

¡Students can find it difficult to adapt to the case method because they have been long used to lectures and notes.

ADDRESSING THESE CHALLENGES

Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) collaborates with Indian management educators to develop solutions that address their unique needs:

¡HBP helps Indian faculty adopt the case method in their classrooms through teaching workshops, videos, and print tips for case teaching, and a vibrant educator community on our web site designed for sharing best practices.

¡For students, the online Case Analysis Coach introduces the key concepts and processes required for analyzing business case studies, ideal for students interpreting a case for the first time.

MANAGING THE COST OF COURSE MATERIALS

Business schools in India grapple with limited budgets due to the low fee structure compared to Western schools. To help address this issue, HBP offers Unlimited Catalog Access agreements (site licenses). These agreements provide unlimited use of HBP resources at a fraction of the U.S. cost. They also offer convenient quarterly or annual payment.

“A good discussion leader guides students toward the discovery of critical insights and uncovering of broader lessons through thoughtful questioning, listening, and responding.” Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard Business School

COURSE MATERIALS

Case Collections o Cases from Harvard Business School

o Partner case collections from more than 20 top schools

o Over 8,000 cases across all disciplines

o Online multimedia cases and video supplements on DVD

o Industry and Background Notes that cover a concept, industry, or theory in preparation for a case discussion

o Brief Cases: 5–8 pages plus exhibits, with Teaching Notes

o Video Shorts: No-cost, streaming videos that illustrate a case’s learning objective

WHAT WE OFFER

Course Materials

Tools & Guides

Resources for Case Teachers

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Articles and Chapters

o Harvard Business Review Articles: Authoritative management ideas written by leading business thinkers and practitioners.

o Partner Article Collections: Sources such as Business Horizons, California Management Review, Rotman Magazine, and Sloan Management Review.

o Book Chapters: Individual chapters can be easily integrated into course materials, and books can serve as primary class texts. We offer chapters from HBR Press and partner collections from publishers such as Business Expert Press, Perseus Books, and Princeton University Press.

eLearning Course Materialso Simulations: Students make critical decisions and explore the impact of

multiple variables within each simulated business scenario. Simulations are remarkably teachable, with simple but powerful administration tools and Teaching Notes. Flexible setup options allow professors to set learning experiences for a range of course levels and disciplines:

¡ Finance: Blackstone/Celanese; M&A in Wine Country; Capital Budgeting

¡ Operations Management: Benihana V2; Global Supply Chain Management; Process Analytics; Project Management—Scope, Resources, Schedule; Supply Chain Management—Root Beer Game V2

¡ Strategy: Back Bay Battery V2; Competitive Dynamics and Wintel

¡ Marketing: Managing Segments & Customers V2; Pricing—Universal Rental Car V2

¡ Organizational Behavior: Leadership and Team—Everest V2; Change Management—Power and Influence

¡ Entrepreneurship: Working Capital Simulation—Managing Growth

o Online Courses: A comprehensive introduction to each subject area gives students a solid foundation for business education. Designed as a pre- matriculation requirement for students, these online courses can also be used throughout a semester. Available as entire courses or in sections.

¡ Finance ¡ Mathematics for Management

¡ Financial Accounting ¡ Quantitative Methods

¡ IT for Management ¡ Spreadsheet Modeling

¡ Management Communication

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FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

Support for Instructors: The Case Methodo Case Method Teaching Seminars: To help instructors

fine-tune their approach to participant-centered learning, we offer three-day seminars on the art and craft of discussion leadership in India.

o The Case Method Teaching Web Resource Page: The source for hints and best practices on case teaching, a library of video clips from inside the HBS case classroom, and more.

o The Teaching Post: The online forum for instructors to exchange ideas and insights on participant-centered learning.

o Simulation Webinars: Learn how students run a simulation, see administrator tools in action, and have your questions answered.

LEARN MORE: casemethod.hbsp.harvard.edu

TOOLS & GUIDES

Register as a Premium Educator: hbsp.harvard.eduo Free with authorization

o Online access to full-text Educator Copies of cases, notes, articles, and chapters

o Access to Teaching Notes (an instructors’ guide to course material)

o Free Trial access to online courses and simulations

o Course planning tools

o Discounted student pricing

Guides for Instructorso Course Modules suggest 4–6 items per topic, including a rationale

for sequencing the materials.

o The Premier Case Collection is a specially selected set of the best HBS cases.

o A Searchable Catalog of more than 25,000 course materials allows you to sort results by type of material, publication date, page length, and more.

o The Teaching Materials Newsletter is published twice a year and showcases the newest materials, listed by academic discipline.

o Create a Course or folder on our web site that contains the best materials for your course. It’s easy to share with your colleagues. Available to registered Premium Educators.

LEARN MORE: hbsp.harvard.edu

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duPARTNER WITH USTo learn more about Harvard Business Publishing solutions and how we can help you implement the case method in your classroom, please contact:

Harvard Business Publishing +91 22 6516 0248 | infoindia@harvardbusiness.orgVisit our web site: hbsp.harvard.edu

THE LEADING PROVIDER OF TEACHING MATERIALS TO INDIAN BUSINESS SCHOOLS

We have successfully partnered with almost 100 of the top business schools in South Asia.

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