He teaches almost exclusively with the case method because he finds it difficulty to understand how students could reflect on management and leadership without learning by doing. He also believes that to fully understand the influence of a manager's personality on his work, students must begin to deal with concrete elements because most of the time learning can't be done except through ex perience. He also states that case method teaching gives him the opportunity to obtain deeper, and longer-lasting results. Laurent Lapierre also uses case method teaching because it fits his vision of management.
Management is a discipline where subjectivity plays a basic part.
He concedes that management has objectively measurable aspects, i.e. a company's strength and weakn ess or the environment's characteristics. But, he stresses that decisions which can bring success or failure always bear somebody's mark. When used accordingly, case method teaching tends to communicate managers' inner world, not to establish it as a mode l, but as a way to behave and practice which will allow us to find our own subjectivity, and what is best. Consequently, the experiences of others can become a tool as powerful as our own acquired experience. Usually, professors who want to design a course, start writing down the elements of their syllabus which include a series of concepts to be taught.