David Garvin, a long-time HBS professor of business administration, was posthumously honored Sunday (March 4) for Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method by the Case Centre. Garvin, 64, died of cancer in April 2017.
Two awards ceremonies were held Sunday night. The Academy Awards, the biggest night in Hollywood, drew millions of viewers (and, to the relief of PricewaterhouseCoopers, this time around there was no screwup with the final envelope). But for MBA programs in Europe and the United States, the other awards program was an even bigger deal: the Case Centre Awards & Competitions, recognizing outstanding case writers and teachers from across the globe.
Like the Oscars, the Case Awards value — and strive for — diversity in their nominees and winners. And while that goal may be a work in progress in Hollywood, the Case Awards this year saw a remarkable diversity in winners, at least when it comes to new schools taking home honors. Case Centre Director Richard McCracken notes that more and more schools have been competing and winning at the annual event, a trend that has become even more pronounced since the awards went global in 2011. 2018, he says, saw the most variety in winning schools in the 28 years of the competition. Five schools won Case Awards for the first time: Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business, University of Denver Daniels College of Business, Hult International Business School, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, and University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
Yet the traditional bastions of strong case writing, like Harvard Business School, were well-represented, too: HBS won two awards, including Overall Winning Case for the third time since 2011, while INSEAD won three category awards and two competitions.
“While we still see representation from traditionally high-profile schools that have a strong history and experience in the case method of teaching, such as Harvard Business School and INSEAD, year by year we are now seeing many other schools from every corner of the globe recognized for producing cases that their teaching colleagues worldwide want to teach with,” McCracken tells Poets&Quants. “This shows us that faculty at ever more institutions are developing successful teaching cases of a topicality, relevance, and pedagogical quality that faculty at other schools worldwide want to use them in their own classrooms.”
‘A UNIQUE ANNUAL INSIGHT INTO WHAT FUTURE BUSINESS PEOPLE ARE BEING TAUGHT’
Case Centre Director Richard McCracken
The annual Case Awards comprises two parts: the awards, which include one overall winner and 10 management categories, and five competitions: Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method, Outstanding Case Teacher, Outstanding Case Writer, New Case Writer, and Case Writer on a “hot” topic. Three case writing competitions are held each year to find the outstanding case writer and outstanding first-time case writer, and to identify the best new case written on the topical “hot topic” (this year’s topic: disruptive change). For the awards, the blind data is analyzed to establish which cases have been ordered, and how many times, from the Case Centre for teaching at other schools across the globe. Their impact, McCracken says, is widespread: This year, 120 schools in 31 countries had taught with winning cases.
The Case Centre is a not-for-profit organization and registered charity. To be eligible for the awards, a case must have been registered during the last five years in the Case Centre’s collection of more than 61,700 cases. Schools don’t have to be nominated or put themselves forward, but a case can’t have won the category in a previous year — except for the overall winner. The competitions, by contrast, are based on nominations, or schools put themselves forward. A panel of international experts judges each competition.
“Winning a Case Centre award represents a high accolade because case authors and schools are effectively being judged by their peers worldwide — arguably, with their students, the most critical group to impress,” McCracken says. “The subjects of winning cases also give us a unique annual insight into what future business people are being taught. Cases on multinational business, and negotiating the new digital media landscape, remain well-represented, with many companies — Amazon, BP, Tesla, Unilever, Uber, and Zappos — appearing for a second, third, or even fourth year. But in 2018 we also see a strong representation of dilemmas around ethics, sustainability, and the highly topical issue of sexual harassment.
AMONG THE HONOREES IS A LATE HBS PROF OF BIZ ADMINISTRATION
Among the 2018 winners of the Case Awards are Harvard’s Youngme Moon, who won Overall Winning Case for a case about Uber; Alvaro Sandroni and Farhad Aspy Fatakia of Northwestern Kellogg, jointly named Outstanding New Case Writer; and INSEAD’s L. Felipe Monteiro and Anne-Marie Carrick, named Outstanding Case Writer on this year’s hot topic of disruptive change. Pierre Chandon of INSEAD was named Outstanding Case Teacher.
This year saw the Case Centre’s first posthumous award. Long-time HBS professor of business administration David Garvin, who succumbed to cancer in April 2017 at age 64, was honored for Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method, an decision McCracken says was not difficult for the judges. “The judges felt unanimously that few have contributed so much to the practice and understanding of the case method of learning as David A Garvin, whose lifelong contribution, both at Harvard Business School and far beyond, was cut short by his untimely death,” McCracken says.
Garvin was the C. Roland Christensen professor of business administration at HBS and a member of the Harvard faculty from 1979 until his death. Few have contributed so much to the practice and understanding of the case method of learning as David, McCracken says, both at HBS and beyond. He was “an extraordinary and meticulous case writer” who authored more than 70 cases — around a dozen of which feature as the most popular in HBS’s legendary case collection. As a case method scholar, Garvin published several books and articles on the topic, including the influential Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, co-authored with C. Roland Christensen and Ann Sweet.
(See Page 2 for a complete list of the 2018 Case Centre Awards winners, with links to each case.)
Pierre Chandon of INSEAD was named Outstanding Case Teacher at the 2018 Case Awards
CASES
Overall Case Award Winner Uber: Changing the Way the World Moves Youngme Moon, Harvard Business School
Economics, Politics and Business Environment Amazon in Emerging Markets Amy Nguyen-Chyung and Elliot Faulk, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Entrepreneurship Fairphone: Organising for Sustained Social Impact Onajomo Akemu, Gail Whiteman and Tao Yue, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Ethics and Social Responsibility Sustainability as Opportunity: Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan Joanne Lawrence and Kevina Kenny, Hult International Business School and Andreas Rasche, Copenhagen Business School
Finance, Accounting and Control Prada’s Hong Kong IPO Denis Gromb and Alberta Di Giuli, HEC Paris
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour Tony Hsieh at Zappos: Structure, Culture and Radical Change Noah Askin, Gianpiero Petriglieri and Joanna Lockard, INSEAD
Knowledge, Information and Communication Systems Management
Gillette’s ‘Shave India Movement’: Razor Sharp Against the Stubble (A) Srinivas K Reddy and Christopher Dula, Singapore Management University
Marketing AccorHotels and the Digital Transformation: Enriching Experiences Through Content Strategies Along the Customer Journey David Dubois, Inyoung Chae, Joerg Niessing and Jean Wee, INSEAD
Production and Operations Management Everything is Connected: A New Era of Sustainability at Li & Fung Hau L Lee and Sheila Melvin, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Strategy and General Management Tesla Motors: Disrupting the Auto Industry? Jeffrey H Dyer, Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business and Nathan Furr, INSEAD
Free case British Petroleum: From Texas City to the Gulf of Mexico and Beyond Torben Juul Andersen and Christine Bang Andersen, Copenhagen Business School
COMPETITIONS
Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method David A Garvin, Harvard Business School (posthumous Award)
Outstanding Case Teacher Pierre Chandon, INSEAD
Outstanding Case Writer Breaking the Code of Silence Syeda Maseeha Qumer and Debapratim Purkayastha, ICFAI Business School (IBS) and Vijaya (Narapareddy) Zinnoury, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver
Outstanding New Case Writer Kirat Housing Development Society Alvaro Sandroni and Farhad Aspy Fatakia, Kellogg School of Management
Outstanding Case Writer: Hot Topic ‘Disruptive Change’ The TAG Heuer Carrera Connected Watch: Swiss Avant-Garde for the Digital Age (A) & (B) L Felipe Monteiro and Anne-Marie Carrick, INSEAD
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