View Sample "Raw" Cases Online Carmax Environmental Defense Fund/TXU FCC Spectrum Auction Download Sample SOM Print Cases Cadbury Air Canada Multimedia Resources Read and listen how the Class of 2010 applied their learned skills to the Cadbury Case Watch case writer Jaan Elias explain the difference between "raw" vs. "cooked" cases during the International Symposium on the Yale integrated MBA curriculum model, February 19, 2008. Read About "Raw" Cases The Raw vs. the Cooked

The Yale integrated MBA curriculum is multidisciplinary, innovative, and highly responsive to contemporary developments in the world of business and management. The school’s team of case writers continually work on developing new teaching materials that require students to view business problems from multiple perspectives, unlike traditional business cases, which typically present a business problem from a single point of view.

SOM’s pioneering web-based "raw" cases are open-ended, multi-perspective presentations that can feature thousands of pages of relevant material that students must analyze, such as 10-Ks, analyst reports, news articles, stock charts, and interviews with key players. This format reflects the way managers must access and analyze information to make informed business decisions.

SOM professor Will Goetzmann, one of the originators of the "raw" case format, observes: "There is no substitute for engaging somebody in a problem that uses real information and then having them confront that challenge, feel the stress of uncertainty about what direction to head, and then form a view and take a position, and then defend it with data they collected. We think it makes for better learning."

Veteran case writer Jaan Elias has directed the case study research department since its creation in 2006. This year alone the Case Study Research team will develop 40 new case studies.