Case Research Foundation | Annual Report 2020
(Download the full report here)
Helping keep the classroom vital and alive, grounded in the shifting complexities faced by managers around the world. Paul R. Lawrence Fellowships, granted by the CRF, enable doctoral students and early-career faculty members to attend the annual conference of the North American Case Research Association (NACRA) for specialized training in case research, writing and teaching.
“By bringing in talented early-career scholars from around the world, our fellowship program helps promote the development of outstanding cases that will be relevant to the experience of students from many cultures.”
Providing support remotely
This year, the work of the Case Research Foundation, like that of so many other organizations, has been upended by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The outbreak of COVID greatly reduced the number of fellowship applications we received in April, presumably because prospective applicants were reluctant to commit to travel.
We received 39 completed applications (18 doctoral students; 21 early-career faculty) from 11 countries. We awarded four Paul R. Lawrence Fellowships for 2020, the same acceptance rate as in prior years.
When the NACRA board madethe decision to hold the 2020 conference remotely, we invited this year’s Fellows to attend online with all fees paid and as well as to attend the 2021 conference in person, with a full grant for travel and expenses, if we can hold one at that time.
We hope to host an expanded cohort of Fellows at the 2021 conference in Orlando, Florida.
Adding value throughout the year
With NACRA and our institutional sponsors, the Case Research Foundation has worked to provide professional development opportunities to members and former fellows throughout the year—not just during the conference.
Recent and planned webinar topics have included
Writing cases remotely— practical tips
Emotional resilience for case writers
Conversation with a prize-winning case author
Spotlight on prl fellow alums
Cle-Anne Gabriel (‘18)
Cle-Anne, a tenured senior lecturer (teaching and research) in strategy and sustainability at the University of Queensland Business School in Australia and a PRL Fellow in 2018, was elected to the position of program-chair elect at NACRA, with responsibility for the 2022 conference. She will become president of NACRA in 2023. Cle-Anne is a specialist in sustainable development and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is known for her pedagogical innovations, mostly recently for developing strategies for synchronous online and hybrid case teaching and learning under COVID.
Financials
Our Administrative Costs
Our board of directors, faculty mentors, and committee members volunteer their time. We receive in-kind donations from the North American Case Research Association and other friends. Our administrative costs support website development, fellowship marketing, and management of the selection process.
Thanks to
Board of Directors
Anne T. Lawrence
Aundrea Kay Guess
Allan R. Cohen
Michael M. Goldman
Maria Ballesteros-Sola
Anjan Ghosh
Faculty mentors
Maria Ballesteros-Sola
Karen Boroff
Thomas Buckles
Sergio Canavati
Eric Dolansky
Josep Franch
Armand Gilinsky
Janis Gogan
Michael Goldman
Mahendra Gujarati
Cynthia Ingols
Joe Kavanaugh
Christine Kratz
Pascale Lapointe
Anne Lawrence
John Lawrence
Joan Ramon Mallart
Rebecca Morris
Vi Narapareddy
Margaret Naumes
Susan Peters
Marlene Reed
Woody Richardson
Karin Schnarr
Jeff Shay
Susan Sieloff
Vishwanath SR
Ram Subramanian
Marilyn Taylor
William Wei
Donors
Ogechi Adeola
Mrityunjay Athreya
Sherwood E. Bain
Maria Ballesteros-Sola
James Biteman
Denise Breckon
Lew Brown
Michael Burawoy
James Carroll
Christopher Cassidy
Bala Chakravarthy
Caleb Chen
Danielle Clark
Allan and Joyce Cohen
Clifford E. Darden
Nancy Dearman and John Kotter
Robert Eccles
Timothy Edlund
Nada Elnaha
Deborah Ettington and Thomas Burean
Lisa Facey-Shaw
Victor A. Faux
Cle-Anne Gabriel
Michael Goldman
Aundrea Kay Guess
Monika Gupta
Takahiro Fujimoto
Ankan Ghosh
Janis Gogan and Ashok Rao
Ranjay Gulati
Randall Harris
Matthew Hollow
Cynthia Ingols and Steven J. Spitz
Joshin John
Shahir Kassam-Adams
Harvey Kolodny
Kerryn Krige
Harry W. Lane
Mitchell Langbert
Anne T. Lawrence
William S. (Tad) Lawrence
Jay W. Lorsch
Michael McCaskey
Terry McGovern
Jeff Paul
Aravind Reghunathan
Mark P. Rice
Lynne and Woody Richardson
Satyam
Kathryn Savage
Nermeen Shehata
Karin Schnarr
Melvin and Linda Stanford
Linda Swayne
Marilyn and Robert Taylor
Paul Thompson
Michael L. Tushman and Marjorie Williams
Charalambos Vlachoutsicos
Michael F. Welsh
Meredith Woodwark
Jan Zahrly