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The Case Study Handbook, Revised Edition
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The Case Study Handbook, Revised Edition

by William Ellet
August 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
272 pages
6h 28m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER 10

HOW TO WRITE EVALUATION SCENARIO ESSAYS

A case evaluation scenario portrays a situation in which a deeper understanding of a subject—such as a person, team, product or service, company, country, strategy, or policy—is necessary. This deeper understanding comes from an evaluation, often of the worth, value, performance, effectiveness, outcome, or consequences of the subject.

The main character of the case can be responsible for the evaluation or be the subject of one. Your professor may also pick an aspect of a case and ask you to write an evaluation of it. That is true of the sample essay included in this chapter. The student was asked to evaluate an important element of the case “Malaysia in the 1990s (A).”

To write an essay about ...

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