Celebrating General Shoe Company, the Inaugural HBS Case

Putting yourself in the shoes of the case protagonist and working to determine what should be done is like a good detective story. Professor Jan Rivkin explores General Shoe Company, the first Harvard Business School case study, how the case method came to be at the School, and why it’s still relevant nearly a century later.

[diganganapathak]

spellbound!! wish i was a student there to experience such things live!!

[samikshajain]

Great watch to know where it started from!

[ManishSingh-bvps]

Is there any way to get hard copy of couple of these cases!!

[lohdiwei]

Well, now we know why Harvard let Ray Mungo in: his mother worked on a stamping machine in a Boston shoe factory.