What has been your experience using the Lego case in class?

This case has been used six times in graduate courses, and allows us to integrate the concepts of corporate entrepreneurship. In this subject we teach students the mindset that must prevail in companies for innovation and entrepreneurship to flourish and take place, as well as the structures and systems that are necessary to achieve it. The case inspires students because it is about a company that is well known worldwide, and because of its long history.

What has happened to the case since you presented it at BALAS?

Once presented at BALAS 2022 (Lisboa), the case was invited to participate in the application process for publication through CBCC at Harvard. After several comments from reviewers, the case was upgraded and accepted for publication. It is currently in the process of style editing. The process was fast and very satisfactory because I was able to improve aspects of the case writing.

What recommendations do you offer to other researchers who are considering writing cases?

I recommend to my colleagues that the best way to learn to write cases, and improve, is to submit them to the judgment of other colleagues. We can write cases and use them with our students without publishing them, but when we take them through the publication process it opens up a wonderful spectrum, where we discover different ways of using the case, and we take it to a very high level of quality. We end up learning a lot of things that we can pass on to our students. We grew along the way, the feedback I received from my reviewers was like a private course in writing teaching notes.