case study

(noun)

An intensive analysis of an individual unit (e.g., a person, group, or event) stressing developmental factors in relation to context; also called a case report.

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Examples of case study in the following topics:

  • Business Cases and Examples

    • The case method overlaps with the case study method, but the two are not identical.
    • The length of a business case study can range from two or three pages to 30 pages or more.
    • Harvard's most popular case studies include Lincoln Electric Co. and Google, Inc.
    • The underlying concept is that such students need specific guidance to be able to analyze case studies.
    • Identify how case studies can lead students to a deeper understanding of business topics

  • Long-Term Development

    • Some examples of approaches to professional development include the case study method, consultation, coaching, communities of practice, lesson study, mentoring, reflective supervision, etc.
    • There are a variety of approaches to professional development, including consultation, coaching, communities of practice, lesson study, mentoring, reflective supervision and technical assistance.
    • Case Study Method - the case study method is a teaching approach that consists of presenting the students with a case, putting them in the role of a decision maker facing the problem.
    • Lesson Study - to solve practical dilemmas related to intervention or instruction through participation with other professionals in systematically examining practice.
    • While not directly relevant to, say, teachers, it nonetheless provides an important skill that may be used in case of an emergency, and thus would indirectly benefit a teacher who learns these skills.

  • Additional examples of efficient buildings

    • Commercial buildings that pay for their costs and, in some cases, produce more energy than they use, are not a fantasy.
    • One of the most written about case studies in commercial building efficiency, however, concerns the ING Bank in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), which was built in 1987.

  • A case study

    • (Stahel, Walter, ‘Caterpillar Case Study') Success met with success and soon thereafter the company began operating a third facility in nearby Prentiss, Mississippi.

  • Detriments of benefits

    • These can be better understood in the context of the following case study.

  • Market research to determine the potential market for funeral services in Monterrey, Mexico

    • To illustrate these concepts in a live situation, we have included a discussion of how a market research study was performed to determine the potential market for a new concept for funeral services in Monterrey, Mexico.
    • In the qualitative study, people interviewed mentioned what they dislike about "Cedillas del Toro" is that the memorial vigils have a common area for visits in where you can not identify whom each person is accompanying, turning it very informal.
    • Thanks to this market study, the investors could corroborate the idea that a funeral service enterprise in Monterrey may be a good business opportunity.In addition they could delineate the concept according to the market.
    • Read the case about the Market research to determine the potential market for funeral services in Monterrey, Mexico?
    • What policies could be derived from the information obtained by the Marketing Research study?

  • Work environments and people

    • Studies show that workers labouring in windowless factories experience more headaches, faintness and sickness compared with workers who toil under natural light.
    • Additional studies have revealed that prolonged exposure to artificial light decreases antibody activity, increases infections and colds, and results in depression.
    • At PST, the introduction of natural light was so successful it reduced worker compensation cases by 90%.

  • Entrepreneurship and the Economy

    • In this case the innovation, the car, was transformational but did not require the development of a new technology, merely the application of existing technologies in a novel manner.
    • Entrepreneurial economics is the study of the entrepreneur and entrepreneurship within the economy.
    • Studies about entrepreneurs in Economics, Psychology and Sociology largely relate to four major currents of thought.
    • Entrepreneurship is a factor in microeconomics, and its study reaches back to the work of Richard Cantillon and Adam Smith in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
    • In this case the innovation, the car, was transformational but did not require the development of a new technology, merely the application of existing technologies in a novel manner.

  • Psychological Pricing

    • Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviors.
    • Psychology has the immediate goal of understanding individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases and, by many accounts, ultimately aims to benefit society.

  • TQM’s seven basic elements

    • Essential elements of the TPS culture include studying process flow, collecting data, driving out wasteful non-value-added activities, and making everyone responsible for quality improvement.
    • In the case of health care, the TPS approach enabled one hospital to analyze the causes of patient infections from catheters and pneumonia in patients on ventilators.
    • With simple changes in procedures that prevented patients from getting these secondary illnesses, the hospital was able to save USD 40,000 per patient in these cases.
    • After studying the process, the workers came up with an idea to put all the items for a particular vehicle model in a blue plastic tote.