HBS Case Writer

A Claude Code skill for writing Harvard Business School-style teaching cases on financial market events and investment decisions.

What It Does

Transforms real-world financial events into immersive, decision-focused teaching cases following HBS conventions:

• Narrative structure — Opens at the decision moment with a named protagonist
• Objective tone — Third-person, present tense, journalistic style
• Unresolved ending — Ends with open questions, never conclusions
• Data-driven exhibits — Professional tables and charts with proper sourcing

When to Use

Invoke this skill when you want to:

• Write a teaching case about a financial market event
• Create an HBS-style case on an investment product or decision
• Develop instructional materials for finance courses

Triggers: “Write an HBS case about X”, “Create a teaching case on Y”, “Develop a case study for Z”

Installation

The skill is a directory (hbs-case-writer/) containing SKILL.md plus supporting scripts, references, assets, and a paired agent. To install into another Claude Code project, copy the whole directory into that project’s skills folder:

cp -r hbs-case-writer/ /.claude/skills/

For the review-and-revise loop to work, also copy the paired case-reviewer agent into the project’s agents folder (Claude Code discovers agents under .claude/agents/, not inside the skill):

mkdir -p /.claude/agents/
cp hbs-case-writer/agents/case-reviewer.md /.claude/agents/

Usage

/hbs-case-writer Write an HBS case about the SVB collapse

Or simply describe the event:

Create a teaching case on spot Bitcoin ETFs

Skill Structure

hbs-case-writer/
├── SKILL.md                      # Main skill instructions
├── scripts/
│   └── case_plots.py            # Figure generation (matplotlib)
├── references/
│   ├── hbs-patterns.md          # Detailed patterns from real HBS cases
│   ├── financial-data-sources.md # Where to find financial data
│   └── case-review-rubric.md    # Scoring rubric for the case-reviewer agent
├── assets/
│   ├── case-template.md         # Ready-to-use case (Markdown) template
│   └── slide-template.tex       # Beamer teaching-deck template (no-dependency theme)
├── agents/
│   └── case-reviewer.md         # Paired critic agent (install under .claude/agents/)
└── examples/
    └── spacex-ipo/              # Sample slide deck (PDF + tex) with figures

The case-reviewer agent ships inside the skill folder for distribution, but Claude Code only discovers agents under .claude/agents/. Copy it there during installation (see above). It is a critic only — it never edits the case.

Output

The case is authored in Markdown as the single source of truth, then rendered into the formats the user requests:

1. Word document (.docx) — primary deliverable, via pandoc (or the md-to-docx / docx skills)