In-person case teaching workshop, June-July 2025

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Workshop: Successful Case Teaching

30 June - 1 July 2025, 9h-16.30h (CET) In-person at IESE Business School, Spain

Are you interested in teaching with cases? Are you looking for new and exciting ways to reinvigorate your teaching? This two-day in-person workshop will give you fresh inspiration in the classroom, helping you offer students at all levels, from undergraduate to executive, an exciting and motivational learning experience.

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Overview

Learn how to engage students and get the most from case discussions in the classroom in this intensive and interactive hands-on workshop. This workshop includes the opportunity to practise case teaching in a safe and supportive environment.

The case method is widely recognised as an enormously powerful approach to teaching and learning, especially in management education. This workshop will provide teachers with the opportunity to explore the case method and assess its benefits for use in their own classes. The highly experienced tutor will share practical tips and skills for teaching with cases and offer guidance on case selection and instructor preparation for class. Participants will gain confidence and share experiences in a friendly and supportive environment.

Workshop participants

This workshop will be of benefit to a wide audience who are interested in:

using cases for teaching, in-class or online
reflecting on their own teaching
improving their case teaching and facilitation skills.

Participants may include:

faculty and trainers from all sectors or disciplines within management and business education, teaching at any level from undergraduate to executive
faculty and trainers from a wide range of other disciplines with some connection to or interest in management education.

Workshop objectives

Participants will:

reflect on their own classroom teaching
understand the prerequisites for case teaching
practise case teaching in a safe environment
appreciate the importance of planning and preparation
consider student expectations
learn how to evaluate success factors for any given audience.

Takeaways - participants will develop:

the ability to choose appropriate cases for their students
the confidence to lead case teaching sessions
a structure and pace for their case teaching sessions
the skill to deal with any student response – including silence
the ability to achieve their learning objectives in the classroom.

Workshop programme

Monday 30 June 2025

You will receive pre-course reading two weeks before the first session.

9h - 12.30h (CET)	Introduction. Why use cases? What makes a good case discussion? Types and characteristics of cases and their applicability in different environments. The fundamentals of teaching a case session, including case selection and preparation.
12.30h - 13.30h (CET)	Lunch
13.30h - 16.30h (CET)	Opening a cased-based session. Guiding the discussion. Participant teaching practice.

Tuesday 1 July 2025

9h - 12.30h (CET)	Participant teaching practice. Closing a case-based session. Using cases for evaluation and assessment. Using special types of cases. Online case teaching.
12.30h - 13.30h (CET)	Lunch
13.30h - 16.30h (CET)	Designing case-based courses. Case use within your organisation. Programme summary and closure.

Fees

We’re not-for-profit, so our training is great value for money.

Member organisations	Non-member organisations
£665/€790/$880	£730/€865/$965

Fees include course materials, refreshments and lunches.

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A minimum of one subsidised place for participants at institutions in emerging economies is available on each event. If your organisation qualifies for our membership scheme for emerging economies you may be eligible. Contact the events team for further details.

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Please note that the deadline for applications is midnight (BST) on 22 June 2025.

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The deadline for applications is midnight (BST) on 22 June 2025.

Venue

The workshop will be hosted by IESE Business School at their North Campus in Barcelona, Spain.

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Your workshop tutor

Ulf Schaefer

Ulf has been a workshop tutor for The Case Centre since 2015 and has delivered over 20 case training events.

Ulf Schaefer is an associate professor of practice at SDA Bocconi School of Management.

Ulf teaches leadership, change, decision making, and responsible management. His research focuses on (un)ethical behaviour in organizations taking behavioural ethics and social identity perspectives.

He is an award-winning case author, receiving The Case Centre’s Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour Award in 2013 and 2014. Ulf also appeared in The Case Centre's Top 50 Bestselling Case Authors 2022/23 and is the author of many bestselling and classic cases.