The case method has made inroads as a pedagogical tool that can sharpen students’ analytical skills and better prepare them for the reality awaiting them professionally. Despite its deep-seated origins in the West, the case method remains underused in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The purpose of this study is to explore the main challenges that MENA business higher education institutions face in effecting case-based learning and the key initiatives that may help in addressing them. Building on our extensive experience with case studies production and teaching in the MENA context, and a pioneering exploratory research involving 40 instructors, students, and administrators from three leading business schools in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, we shed new light on the skills and contextual challenges that MENA business higher education institutions encounter when implementing the case method. We also propose a framework that integrates a wide range of initiatives to promote case-based learning in MENA. At the heart of this framework is the “community building” effort advocated as a catalyst to support case writing, teaching, solving, and publishing, as well as the development of a culture conducive to an effective deployment of the case method in the specific MENA context.

案例方法作为一种教学工具取得了进展，可以提高学生的分析技能，并为他们专业地等待他们的现实做好更好的准备。尽管案例方法起源于西方根深蒂固，但在中东和北非 (MENA) 地区仍未得到充分利用。本研究的目的是探索 MENA 商业高等教育机构在实施基于案例的学习方面面临的主要挑战，以及可能有助于解决这些挑战的关键举措。基于我们在 MENA 背景下的案例研究制作和教学方面的丰富经验，以及涉及来自埃及、摩洛哥和突尼斯三所领先商学院的 40 名教师、学生和管理人员的开创性探索性研究，我们阐明了 MENA 商业高等教育机构在实施案例方法时遇到的技能和环境挑战。我们还提出了一个框架，该框架整合了广泛的举措，以促进 MENA 的基于案例的学习。该框架的核心是提倡作为催化剂的“社区建设”工作，以支持案例编写、教学、解决和发布，以及发展有利于在特定 MENA 中有效部署案例方法的文化语境。