Case Solving for beginners

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It’s better to start with why you should learn case solving. From my experience, 3 reasons:

(1) Keep up with the business world, gain practical knowledge and skills through up-to-date cases. It’s extremely meaningful to me, as university classes are mostly theory-based with out-of-date case studies.

(2) Expand relationship network. Join case competitions, make new friends, and network with MNCs’ employees.

(3) Get future job opportunities. After joining business case competitions, you will have stories to tell in the job interview & you can get the position by employee reference after the case competitions.

And now, how to start?

(1) Read fundamental books. You can get the list from internet, but here is my recommendation: [Huy Luu] Case Books

(2) Start the habit of reading news every day. Below are some of the sources that I am following now, I use Feedly.com, a website that allows you to include all the news sources in one place. My mentor Nam Le introduced this website to me. Besides, I subscribe to email newsletter from Finimize and PitchBook.

(3 – most important) Find a learning partner. He/she will be the one who reads & discusses books/news with you. Then maybe, set up a case team to join business case competitions/recruitment programs together.

After these steps, you can jump into some case competitions to apply what you have read, or just follow those habits to expand your knowledge

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  4. Thanks for your useful sharing. Honestly, I’m a dummy in case study and my background is not related to economics or business, but I’m trying my best to study about it. With your books in drive, can you guide me which book I should read first and maybe the orders of books? Thank you so much!

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  5. Thank you so much for the article. My major is not related to business or economics, yet I have recently taken an interest in business cases and what you’ve written provides me with a good place to start. I am just wondering a little about reading business news. Breaking news just keep coming in and you cannot spend all day reading. How can you know if an article is useful and worth a read?

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    1. I cant. My solutions are
      – Filter source/authors every day so that you can have the best articles to read
      – Gather a group of friends to share interesting news with you

      Thanks for your support

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  6. Thank you for your sharing! I would like to ask you a question regarding business case. When it comes to solving a business case, do I need much marketing knowledge? So doing business is doing marketing or business includes marketing? I am quite confused about this relation. Thank you so much , have a good day !

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  7. Hi, thank you for a great sharing, really appreciate. But the link to access to your books is not reachable now, can you re share it via my comment T.T

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  10. Thank you so much for your recommendation. Unfortunately, the link to your books is unavailable. Could you please check it out? Thank you so much!

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