Guidelines for the Case Assignments

Written Report
Final report should be prepared with APA rules for format and documentation. Report should be
around 12-15 pages in length to allow for sufficient, insightful discussion of the solutions to the
posted questions/problems.
All questions should be fully answered with any supporting discussion that may be appropriate.
Simply a “yes/no” answer to the posted questions is not acceptable. Quantitative
questions/problems should be supported with the relevant calculations; any discussion should be
supported with appropriate theoretical/practical arguments, facts and critique.
You may include any tables, graphs or appendixes to your report as needed (if you add any
table/graph into the report – you need to use it for a discussion and to supports any of the
findings. Do not place anything into the report if you are not making any use of it). You may use
solutions to the similar real-world situations that you know to support your discussion of the
case, however this can be used only as a supporting tool and the main focus of your discussion
should relate to the case assigned (i.e., you are allowed to go beyond the case, but main focus has
to be on the case itself).
Cases have varying quantitative components. Therefore, we do not expect all teams to include
quantitative components in all assigned cases. If your case is explicitly asking for some
calculations, you need to show your numerical analysis. Otherwise, your responses would be
mostly conceptual, critical analysis and discussion.

Presentations
All presentations should be prepared in PowerPoint and narrated (record voice over slides).
No formal criteria for the format of your presentation (number of slides, design etc.). However,
good time management will be part of your grade and each team will use 12-15 minutes to
narrate/present the case and your team’s solutions to the posted questions.

General
For written reports and presentations, you may consider the following structure (do not need to
do table of contents):
- executive summary of the case (briefly);
- problem statement and case introduction (briefly);
- data analysis (if any calculations are necessary);
- key decision criteria and analysis of the problems;
- recommendations, proposed actions and implementation plan.
This is a suggested structure that you may follow. Given specifics of your particular case you
may adjust the structure of your report/presentation as you deem appropriate.
- PP slides and written reports should be submitted to Canvas by midnight, Sunday July 15th.

Discussions
Once presentations are posted everyone is expected to review at least 2 presentations of other
teams (I encourage you see all presentations!) and post at least two questions (one per each
presentation you go over) by EOD Tuesday, July 17th. Each team will respond to all questions
posted on their case presentation by Friday, July 20th.
Q&A on the case presentation will count towards your participation in Discussion Forums.