Captain, Enjoyed reading your thoughts. In Nepal, to many people, business = extortion, tax evasion, etc No doubt, businessmen themselves have played a big role in creating that image of what they do. The challenge ahead is to transform that thinking into making: successful business = additional job creation ****** Kumar Keto, I am actually heartened by the quality of business journalism these days in Nepal. There are devoted-to-business monthly magazines (New Business Age, BOSS, etc) that cover both "hard" and "soft" business issues. There are many business-oriented newsletters in circulation. Overall, I find that the quality of writing, reporting and analyses improving every year. To be sure, we are nowhere near the best of business writing I see/read in, say, the Indian (English language) press, but overall, I think we are taking marginally better steps each year. But when it comes to case writing, the situation is different. But that's a function of incentives, isn't it? Harvard Business School (HBS) produces cases because it sees itself -- first and foremost -- as a 'knowledge creating' institution. To that end, HBS professors have clear career-related incentives to 'create knowledge' by -- among others -- writing up cases.And that's what they do: write up new cases every year by finding interesting stuff to write about. Cases don't get written up in Nepal because, well, where are the incentives for writing them? For a variety of reasons (i.e. shortage of teachers, career progression issues tied to subjective factors as in who-likes-who and NOT to research productivity, etc) business schools in Nepal have to operate like money-making vocational schools -- and NOT as research-oriented business schools. And vocational schools -- like community colleges in the US -- are better off using stuff developed elsewhere to educate their students and waste time creating original knowledge in which they do not have much of an advantage. The result is that, by and large, cases with local content don't get written much. Incidentally, talking about business schools and case studies in general, here's a post I found quite interesting when I first stumbled upon it: - http://trustedadvisor.com/blog/3/ Enjoy, oohi ashu