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by gammateam
2821 days ago
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Case Study education is extremely valuable and it is a shame that it is locked away in Ivy League curriculums. It is valuable. The opportunity cost (time, benefit, other opportunities) for people in tech is still too high. There becomes a time when it is worth it. The Executive MBA may be up people's alley, but even then the network itself is the most important. For me, I ended up finding a cofounder who was a generation older than me, all of their connections have already done this stuff or floated to the top of the organizations they represent. An MBA is not in the cards for me. |
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It obviously depend on the case but, in general, the main advantage of a case study comes from making the learning experience more interactive and involving than the experience of solving a mere, abstract, exercise. It raises the interest like "based on a true story" does in movies.
You learn from a case, but you learn what the case author decided you should learn from it.
A real experience is a lot better. There are ton of pieces of data and things going on at once. Most of them are less relevant. Some situations look not very relevant but they are actually "the difference that make the difference." In a case for the sake of time, the author needs to focus only some aspects and write a plot around them.