From: Mason Carpenter [mailto:
mcarpenter@bus.wisc.edu]
Colleagues,
AN INVITATION: Since a new academic year is close at hand, I invite you to
use and contribute to the Experiential Exercises Website. This site is
updated regularly, and contains a menu of useful teaching tools and links
to help you kick off the school year, manage particular sessions, or close
sessions later in the year. If you find the site useful, my sole plea is
that you share an exercise you find to be particularly useful, so that I
can add it to the website for others to use. You can hit the site
directly from the following link:
http://instruction.bus.wisc.edu/mcarpenter/PROFESSIONAL/Toolkit/bpstools.htm
& A REQUEST: I teach a number of weekly MBA classes on (1)
business/corporate strategic management and (2) global strategy that run
three hours in length, and also have a (3) bi-weekly MBA class on corporate
strategy that runs about 75 minutes each session. I have found that
multi-part cases (like HBS391-195, Cat Fight in the Pet Food Industry) are
particularly effective in the three-hour session, or spread out over two
75-minute sessions. That said, I haven't found many great multi-part
strategy cases and wanted to enlist your assistance in ferreting them
out. I am particularly interested in those cases that generate debate and
confusion among MBAs, and/or have counter-intuitive solutions ;-).
Thanks! Mason
Mason A. CARPENTER
Assistant Professor & Associate of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship
Department of Management and Human Resources
School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison
975 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A.
voice 608/262-9449 FAX: 608/262-8773
http://www.wisc.edu/entrepreneurs/
http://www.bus.wisc.edu/mhr/faculty/carpenter/