Finance Professors’ Use of the Case Method at Harvard and Darden MBA Programs: Ensuring Students’ Technical Knowledge in Finance Courses Using the Case Method

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Abstract

One of the potential obstacles of using cases in finance courses is the task of ensuring that students receive the required technical knowledge of the quantitative material. This qualitative study provides a unique perspective of the specific recommendations and practices of multiple, seasoned finance professors from Harvard Business School and University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate Business School, two top-ranked MBA programs with long-standing commitments to the case method as their primary philosophy of teaching and learning. The information gleaned from the interviews and classroom observations of this study can assist educators in overcoming potential obstacle of students’ lack of technical knowledge.

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(2026) "Finance Professors’ Use of the Case Method at Harvard and Darden MBA Programs: Ensuring Students’ Technical Knowledge in Finance Courses Using the Case Method," Journal of Economics and Finance Education: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarship.rollins.edu/jefe/vol9/iss1/4