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We generated a list of the 40 most popular Yale School of Management case studies in 2017 by combining data from our publishers, Google analytics, and other measures of interest and adoption. In compiling the list, we gave additional weight to usage outside Yale

Read on to learn more about the top 10 most popular cases followed by a complete list of the top 40 cases of 2017. A selection of the top 40 cases are available for purchase through our online store.

The case describes how the Mayo Clinic, one of the most prominent hospitals in the world, engaged designers and built a research institute, the Center for Innovation (CFI), to study the processes of healthcare provision. The case documents the many incremental innovations the designers were able to implement and the way designers learned to interact with physicians and vice-versa.

This case considers how young entrepreneurs structure search funds to find businesses to take over. The case describes an MBA student who meets with a number of successful search fund entrepreneurs who have taken alternative routes to raising funds. The case considers the issues of partnering, soliciting funds vs. self-funding a search, and joining an incubator. The case provides a platform from which to discuss the pros and cons of various search fund structures.

How you organize and name your files will have a big impact on your ability to find those files later and to understand what they contain. You should be consistent and descriptive in naming and organizing files so that it is obvious where to find specific data and what the files contain.

It's a good idea to set up a clear directory structure that includes information like the project title, a date, and some type of unique identifier. Individual directories may be set up by date, researcher, experimental run, or whatever makes sense for you and your research.

You may already have a lot of data collected for your project and wish to organize and rename these files for easier data management. If you have too many files to rename them all by hand, try one of the following applications for renaming your files:

This is an example from a collection of digital research data collected by Science Data Librarian Amy Hodge from 1997-1999 for her dissertation research. It illustrates some of the problems that you might experience if you do not establish appropriate naming conventions for your files.

Some of the information in the file names no longer makes any sense to Amy. For example, she no longer knows what "-10," "-20" or "noPrim" refer to. She also no longer remembers what DM1A and 3F10 are, though they may be other antibodies. When the 12CA5 and HA notations are used in different file names do they indicate the same thing or different things about the experiments? Amy doesn't know.

These file names also lack a lot of Information that Amy would need to know to be able to understand what each of these experiments is, such as what kind of yeast were used in each experiment, whether the expression of the protein was turned on or not, and what portion of the protein is present for all those file names that do not say "1-284."

The files shown above are named inconsistently; a consistent naming scheme would have helped make their names more comprehensible.
Use of more descriptive information in the file names would also have made it easier to figure out 20+ years later what the files contain.
Including a readme.txt file in this folder with explanations of the experiments or at a minimum the naming scheme for the files would have also been helpful.

This is an example from a research project conducted by a group led by Professors Douglas McCauley and Fiorenza Micheli. It illustrates the organized and thorough method they used to name the thousands of image files that they collected for this project.

The project involved installing approximately 180 tiles in an underwater area near the Palmyra Atoll in the South Pacific and leaving them in place for a specified amount of time. At the end of that time, the plates were retrieved for analysis. The researchers photographed the plates in place during the research, and then again after they were retrieved. The images above show one particular plate in place during the study (left) and then again after retrieval (right).

Imagine how easy it will be for these researchers to track these files and to search or scan through their thousands of images to find all the whole tile images, all the images from deep water, or all the images of tiles that had been uncaged.

The use of a well-documented and consistent naming scheme containing relevant and descriptive information about your files will make your research faster and easier to manage as well.

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Design: A case study was used to capture the experiences of 40 multiprofessional healthcare students in practice. Participants were asked to complete a reflective diary during their first week in practice and attend a focus group with 4-8 other students.

Setting: A higher education institution in the north east of England with students from adult, child and learning disability nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and midwifery programmes, in a variety of clinical placements throughout the region.

Findings: The implementation of the campaign and logo branding on the uniforms of students resulted in an increase in the number of times students were addressed by their name in practice. Participants reported that the study helped them to quickly develop a sense of belonging when on placement, and aided them in delivering compassionate care. Occasions when patient safety was improved were also reported.

Place names determine geographic units in space, encapsulate the description of places where inhabitants conduct their activities, and preserve the perception of the territory in past times. The very definition of landscape impacts two interrelated concepts: human action and perception. On another note, traditional pathways are structuring elements of the landscape, bearing witness to the dynamic relationship between the territory and its inhabitants by connecting residences and workplaces. This work aims to assess the relationship between the landscape mosaic and the toponyms of pathways and roads gathered in the current cartography of Euskadi (Spain), a territory influenced by the existence of two official languages. Given the spatial component of the data, this analysis is conducted through geographic information systems. Firstly, a corpus of 3072 pathway names selected from current official toponymic databases is compiled, as well as the content of the first edition of the National Topographic Map. Subsequently, the semantic content of the corpus elements is examined, as well as the nature of their referential content concerning the landscape units obtained from the Atlas of Spanish Landscapes. The results show common factors in characterizing landscapes and the etymology of names. Thus, it is noted that traditional agricultural, forestry, livestock, and traditional industry activities shape the toponymy in the most populated landscape units. Meanwhile, references to the orography typify the more mountainous landscapes. Therefore, the geographical study demonstrates the existence of common factors that link landscape and toponymy, validating one as a study source for the other.

Landscape and territory are as closely linked as the territory and its cartographic representation. As a support for the representation of the territory, geographic information can be a vehicle for identifying common or discriminating elements in the landscape study. From this perspective, cartography and its toponymy share variables with landscape management tools, being transversal tools in the multi-layered territory analysis (Nowosad and Stepinski, 2021).

Furthermore, several disciplines are involved in the study of geographical names, such as anthropology, sociolinguistics, geography, or history, among others, for which toponymy is an auxiliary tool. Moreover, reciprocally, toponymy is nourished by all these sciences, which it also serves. Therefore, toponymy is a bridging discipline between all this knowledge, and its study requires an interdisciplinary approach. One of the values of toponymy is its memory (etin, 2018), that is, the value of containing geographically located chronological information, as long as the origin, meaning, and reason for the timely toponym are unraveled. This is also understood as etiology, which provides knowledge of synthesis (Arroyo Illera, 2009). The confluence of different languages in the same territory, multilingualism, generates a particular interest in the study of place names. This happens in several regions of Spain, including the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, or Euskadi, an administrative region in the north of Spain (bordering France).

Pathways, those communication routes that allowed transportation and connections between different places of human activity development, have been pivotal elements of the territory (Porcal Gonzalo, 2011). Therefore, the analysis of elements related to the traditional transportation network provides a basis for its interpretation. According to Porcal Gonzalo, the traditional pathway can be understood as a dynamic type of cultural landscape, both due to its spatial scope and its representation of territorial exchange processes, illustrating human adaptability to the geographical environment.