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In the two-day seminar held at
SKOLKOVO, Professor Rawi
Abdelal, Chair of the Required
Curriculum at Harvard Business
School, and Alexandra Vacroux,
Executive Director of Harvard’s
Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies, will explore
the theory and practice of
teaching and writing cases for
management education. The
seminar will be based on insights
from across the disciplines that
compose contemporary business
school curricula. Through
engagement with participants,
Prof. Abdelal will develop insights
into the purpose of teaching
cases with the Socratic method,
tools for preparation, effective
practices in the classroom, and
ways to encourage student
participation. The seminar will
also focus on the art of case
writing and its connection to
scholarly research.
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Participants’ profile and
admission requirements:
SKOLKOVO is committed to working
with institutions that seek to change
and improve their teaching methods.
Faculty members and HR-professionals
with prior case teaching, case writing,
and industry experience are encouraged
to apply.
Business-case competition:
Participants are invited to write a case
study on a managerial problem of their
choosing. The cases should be sent to
[email protected] by February
15th, 2015. The Admissions committee,
Headed by SKOLKOVO Professor
Elizabeth Sadova, will review the cases
and choose the three winners who will
come to the seminar free of charge.
The top three cases will be discussed
by seminar participants, and Professor
Abdelal will present an award for the
best case.
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Rawi E. Abdelal
Herbert F. Johnson
Professor of International
Management
Chair, MBA Required
Curriculum
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Rawi Abdelal is the Herbert F. Johnson
Professor of International Management
at Harvard Business School and the
Chair of the MBA Required Curriculum.
His primary expertise is international
political economy, and his research
focuses on the politics of globalization
and the political economy of Eurasia.
Professor Abdelal is a faculty associate
of Harvard's Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs and de Gunzburg
Center for European Studies, and he
serves on the executive committee of
the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Professor Abdelal's first book, National
Purpose in the World Economy, won the
2002 Shulman Prize as the outstanding
book on the international relations of
eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union. Abdelal's second book, Capital
Rules, explains the evolution of the
social norms and legal rules of the
international financial system. Abdelal
has also edited or co-edited three books:
The Rules of Globalization, a collection of Harvard Business School cases
on international business; Measuring
Identity; and Constructing the International Economy. Abdelal is currently at
work on The Profits of Power, a book
that explores the geopolitics of energy
in Europe and Eurasia.
In 1999 Abdelal earned a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, where
he had received an M.A. in 1997. At
Cornell Abdelal's dissertation won the
Kahin Prize in International Relations
and the Esman Prize. He was a President's Scholar at the Georgia Institute
of Technology, where he received a B.S.
with highest honors in Economics in
1993. Recent honors include Harvard
Business School's Greenhill Award,
Apgar Award for innovation in teaching,
and Williams Award for excellence in
teaching, as well as, on several occasions, the Student Association's Faculty
Award for outstanding teaching.
Alexandra Vacroux has served as the
Executive Director of Harvard’s Davis
Center for Russian and Eurasian Affairs
since 2010. As such, she is responsible for oversight of the center and
its masters’ program, management of
sponsored research (particularly grants
on Islam in Eurasia and the Working
Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia
Relations) and network building.
Alexandra M. Vacroux
Executive Director /
Lecturer on Government,
Davis Center for Russian
and Eurasian Studies
Prior to joining the Davis Center,
Dr.Vacroux worked in the public and
private sectors in Russia and the United
States. She was a Scholar at the Kennan
Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Eurasia
Program Officer at the Social Science
Research Council, and a Research Associate at the Center for Financial and
Economic Research (CEFIR) in Moscow.
In the 1990s, she served on the board of
United Way Moscow and was Director
for Sales and President of the American
Brokerage for Moscow-based Brunswick
Warburg investment bank.
Dr. Vacroux’s expertise lies in global
health and the evolution of the Russian
health care system, on in the decentralization and recentralization of state
functions. She is currently working on a
history of pre-revolutionary commerce
in the Viatka region. She received a PhD
in Government (Political Science) from
Harvard University in 2005.
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08:30-09:00
Introductions over coffee, tea
08:30-09:00
Coffee, tea
09:00-10:00
Theory I: Case discussion and participantcentered learning
09:00-10:00
Preparing for class: teaching plans, teaching
notes, teaching groups
10:00-10:15
Break
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:15
Discussion groups to prepare for case
10:15-11:30
Practicum: two mini case discussions led
by participants
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:00
Debrief of practicum
11:30-13:00
Case discussion
12:00-13:00
Writing a great case
13:00-14:15
Working lunch: debrief in discussion groups
13:00-14:15
Working lunch: case ideas
14:15-15:00
Plenary debrief of case discussion
14:15-15:00
Connecting research and case writing
15:00-15:30
Theory II: Preparing a teaching plan
15:00-16:00
Small-group discussion of best three cases
from competition
15:30-16:00
Theory III: Opening the class discussion
16:00-16:30
Case #3: Discussion and crafting a teaching
plan
16:00-16:30
Break
16:30-17:00
Break
16:30-17:00
Theory IV: Transitions and architecture
17:00-17:30
Case #2: Discussion and crafting a teaching
plan
17:00-17:30
Theory V: Closing the class discussion
17:30-18:00
Case #1: Discussion and crafting a teaching
plan
17:30-18:00
Grading and feedback
18:00-18:15
Final remarks and presentation of award to
best case
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There are two participation
formats:
Participation with a business-case*
500 euros + VAT
Participation without a business-case
1300 euros + VAT
(if paid till February 15th, 2015),
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Registration
ILONA BERSHTEIN
+7 985 333 66 80
[email protected]
1500 euros + VAT
(if paid after February 15th, 2015)
ELENA KLEKOVKINA
+7 985 111 3013
[email protected]
* 3 best case contributors participate free of charge
(see the details in the section Business-Case Competition.
www.skolkovo.ru
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