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Art of Case Analysis: A Guide to the Diagnosis of Business Situations

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If you think of this book as your preparation for case interview of consulting firms, you are reading the wrong book.

This book is about preparing for case discussion for undergrad and graduate business courses. It provides general tips and strategies for: - forming study group - reading the case efficiently and effectively - analysing the case - participating and presenting in class your insight (your discussion role and course strategy) - classroom strategics and tactics (including where you sit)

As a Harvard MBA student, I found this book (written by an Harvard MBA alumnus) relevant. It doesn't provide specific points to cover in particular class - it does have some general discussion on key accounting, finance, and marketing concepts in order to crack these cases. After all, it's a book about case analysis, not about accounting, finance nor marketing....

Being able to quickly read and analyze case studies, white papers, business plans, etc. is a big part of a lot of business jobs. I used this book when studying at Babson and have kept it on my shelf ever since. It's specifically designed for the rodeo art of business school case analysis but it's got information in it that I use every day.

As a soon-to-graduate Kellogg student, I thought this text might give me better insight into the case interviews that the management consulting firms use while recruiting. I was disappointed to find that this book provides only a few pages on case analysis; the remainder of the book is devoted to such topics as "seat visibility in the case classroom". If Dickens, dead drunk, were to try to write a very dry overview of the case method in a classroom setting, he might pen this text on a very bad day. Save your money and go to VaultReports.COM or WeetFeet instead....