Instant Case Studies.(Book review) From: Training Media Review | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Lowell, Richard | COPYRIGHT 2006 TMR Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Instant Case Studies, by Jean Barbazette, Book, 2003, Pfeiffer & Company, $50.

Case studies--the name elicits images of Harvard's ivy-bedecked buildings and frozen students sitting before even frostier professors in the grand arenas of learning, being pounded by the "case method" of professional analysis. If ever there was a learning methodology that evoked strong opinion, the case method is surely one.

Valuable method of learning

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