Bridging Entrepreneurship Research and Teaching Cases: Extending Scholarly Reach Through Decision-Based Learning
Panel Details
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2026
Time: 1:30-2:45 p.m. ET
Location: Main Auditorium
Session Summary
This session explores how entrepreneurship research can inform the development of high-quality business teaching cases. While scholarly publications remain central to academic contribution, teaching cases offer a complementary pathway for research to influence management education, entrepreneurial practice, and broader conversations about research impact.
Entrepreneurship research is particularly well suited to case development because it often examines decisions made under uncertainty, resource constraints, incomplete information, and evolving market conditions. Research on venture creation, financing, scaling, failure, founder identity, ecosystems, innovation, commercialization, and policy can contain rich material for classroom discussion when translated into a clear dilemma, protagonist perspective, and decision point.
The panel will consider when and why faculty should think about case development as part of the research process, how to identify research with case potential, and what is required to move from scholarly insight to a teachable entrepreneurial situation. The discussion will also consider how research-based cases can strengthen entrepreneurship education by bringing more diverse, current, and contextually grounded examples into the classroom, including Canadian entrepreneurship contexts that may be underrepresented in existing case collections.
Speakers
Host
Laura Woodman, Communications Manager, Ivey Publishing
Moderator
Daniel Clark, Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship, Ivey Business School
Panelists
- Amir Taherizadeh, Assistant Professor, Strategic Management, DeGroote School of Business
- Simon Parker, Professor, Entrepreneurship, Ivey Business School
- Janice Byrne, Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship, Ivey Business School
- Guest Contributor: Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor, Financial Times (via Zoom)