The MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School have developed training courses covering topics such as course design, teaching techniques and the case study method.

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Fracking, of course, is the controversial method by which producers extract tight oil and gas a process that uses a concoction of water, sand and chemicals to break those deposits free from the rocks where they rest a mile beneath the ground.

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There's also, of course, the low-level method, which is--you've heard of Dumpster diving and people going through mailboxes and that kind of thing.

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Of course, measuring the output and efficiency of public services by the numbers of people they deal with is a pretty crude method.

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Of course, casinos tend to frown on precise measurements and computer simulations by their gamblers, so the researchers developed a simpler method of predicting the outcome of a roulette game that could be deployed without notice.

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