Is it time for the B-school case study to die?

A little over a century ago, medical education in America was transformed. Before the reforms triggered by the 1910 Flexner Report, you could become a doctor largely by listening to lectures and reading textbooks. Afterward, aspiring physicians learned medicine by practicing it. They learned from more experienced doctors on rounds and in residencies, and eventually with patients and surgical simulators. Young doctors could make mistakes and be corrected before anybody died (with some engaging…