David Wylie is an executive in residence at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where he founded Babson College Case Publishing. Before joining Babson College in 1996, he wrote cases and teaching materials at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the Harvard Business School, and for a number of corporate clients. He received his BA from Harvard in 1969 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1984.
He has written over 60 cases and teaching notes, and his field research has taken him across the United States and to Chile, Russia, Korea, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, China, Japan, India, Italy, and Mexico.
He has delivered seminars in case writing to faculty of the University of St. Petersburg, Russia, through consulting clients, at North American Case Research Association (NACRA) annual conferences, WACRA conferences and to aspiring case-writers at Babson. He co-presented a Professional Development Workshop at the Academy of Management this year on developing institutional support for case development. He delivered a seminar in case writing at the Norwegian School of Management in January 2002.
He was elected to the board of directors on NACRA in 2001. He has also been named to the WACRA committee on Case Standards Setting with a mandate to promote case method research as scholarship and to develop standards of excellence in case method research and application. He presented the initial findings of this committee at the SECRA conference in South Carolina in February 2002.
For information about educational programs, workshops, and seminars, please contact him directly at wylie@babson.edu or at 781.239.6181.
