This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along with the creation of associated...

Modeling large systems with either an optimization or a simulation method has several disadvantages. Simulation is usually expensive if adequate detail and experimental designs are employed. Complete detail in optimization models may press the bounds of computability. A recursive approach...

During the past 50 years, several consulting companies introduced important new ideas that extended management theory and improved management practice. This paper draws upon public sources and the authors’ personal experiences to describe how three management consulting companies created and...