For quite some time, HBR has offered some interesting case studies. A list in order of popularity can be found at this search. Traditionally, just four experts are invited to comment on the case. With the new interactive version however, HBR invites you to contribute your solution.

Besides seeing this short introductory interview video with the author, you can read the case, and then:

• Contribute your commentary on the case
• Read others’ contributions
• Compare your perspective with the experts’

The first interactive case is entitled: How to Change the World by Howard H. Stevenson is a fictional case study that probes a dilemma facing many ambitious young professionals: How to do well while also doing good. While the author Stevenson admits that this is a bit contrived in that all the choices come at a single point in time, it is in my mind a bit far fetched for most of us. I should be so lucky to be in such a position, at any age, but the truth is, I would not be that interested in the work and commitments that would be required in any of his three choices. If one can get passed the grandeur of the “job offers” then the objective of the case as written in the first line is well worth analysing:

Alan Wilson has several career options but only one ambition — to make a difference.

One of the scenarios even involves our passion – mergers. So I will be looking forward to the opinions of all those who post as well as “the experts”.