Do Decision Making Levels matter in Case Method?

Majority of the cases that are available with HBS or Case Centre, etc. deals with decision dilemmas faced by top management than executives at the bottom.

Aren’t we using them as though the capabilities that we develop in the students in dealing with top management realities help them to deal with junior executive realities too?

Or, are we again telling that content does not matter; what matters is the process that we make them learn using content as just a context?

How Does Case Method Work?

How Does Case Method Work?

You discuss a decision dilemma situation in 70 minutes; with preparation possibly taking couple of hours.

In reality, you face the decision dilemma gradually over a period of time (let us say weeks) and solve it through many and possibly disparate actions spread over again many weeks.

You feel the method has an impact on the students. Students do acknowledge, even after many years, that they benefited.

How does the 70 minutes process develop capabilities to tackle issues spread over many weeks?