No. 18, December 2022. When speaking of “style,” what comes to mind is the theatrical part of the teaching and not the substantive part. But if we're not connecting with students, all of our efforts in preparation, in designing the pastures of discussion, in transitions from one pasture to another, can fall into awkward silences. What are the signs that our style is failing?

No. 17, November 2022. “Nice detail,” the supervisor told me after reading the draft of my first case as an INCAE investigator. "But it's not teachable." Too long, with many “interesting” but not essential annexes.

MBA programs at schools like INCAE and Harvard teach their students how to analyze cases, not write them. And the opposite is also true: some professors with several years of teaching with cases have not written any.

 No. 16, October 2022. “Forty hours,” Professor C. Roland Christensen replied when asked by a member of the doctoral seminar how much time was spent preparing a new case. Outside, snow was falling on the fields of Harvard Business School, but the discussion in the Ph.D. Program room at Cotting House was sometimes heated. Some of us thought that the great teacher was kidding us.