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Case Templates and Style Guide

The GSB has a standard template for Cases, Teaching Notes and Study Questions that you can download here. Please follow the Style Guide to ensure consistency across the many cases the school produces.

• Case Template 2009
  Note: To access GSB Case Styles, go to Add-Ins tab.
  
  The Case Template provides a consistent way in which to display GSB cases. It helps users recognize GSB cases and become familiar with where to find information and how to go through a case. Using the GSB Case Styles Toolbar will make it easy for you format the case according to CWO standards. Please note the “Header and Footer” sections of the template to be completed (case number and date on the top of page 1, names of case writer(s) and professor(s) at the bottom of page 1, and the case title and number in the header of page 2). Please also note that GSB cases are written in the past tense and after referring to a person once by his or her full name, only last names are used (i.e., “John Smith” for the first referral and only “Smith” for all subsequent referrals).
• Style Guide
  The Style Guide is an important document that describes CWO standards for all cases. The guide covers basic information such as when to capitalize job titles, how to show dates, how to list footnotes, when to spell out numbers, and much more. While you are not expected to memorize the guide, please look through the guide prior to writing to become familiar with the standards and what is covered. Refer to the Style Guide as you write your case and have stylistic and format related questions.
  
• Teaching Note Template
  Teaching notes summarize the main issues of the case, identify the course it was written for, describe the teaching objectives of the case and a teaching approach, and provide supplementary readings, assignment questions and a case analysis. For writers, it can be helpful to develop the teaching note as the case is written. Often material which is inappropriate for the case is a useful part of the teaching note. Writers should get direction from faculty regarding whether or not a teaching note is part of the writer's scope of work.
• Study Questions Template
  Study questions can either be listed at the end of a case (in the same document) or in a separate document. The Study Questions template is for study questions listed in a separate document.