David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School and the founder of the Case Method Institute. Before joining the Harvard Business School faculty in 1993, he received his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale. David is the author of numerous books, articles, and case studies, mainly on the history of economic policy and democratic governance in the United States. He is the recipient of many honors, including the Student Association Faculty Award for outstanding teaching at Harvard Business School (twelve times) and the American Risk and Insurance Association’s Annual Kulp-Wright Book Award for the “most influential text published on the economics of risk management and insurance.” He also helped to create the Tobin Project, a nonprofit research organization, which received the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. 

In 2013, David launched a case-based course on the history of American democracy for Harvard undergraduates and MBA students. The success of this course inspired Professor Moss’s 2017 book, Democracy: A Case Study , as well as the creation of the Case Method Project at Harvard Business School in 2015 and, subsequently, the Case Method Institute for Education and Democracy in 2020. 

Joanna Beinhorn is the program coordinator for the Case Method Project. She assists with facilitating ongoing work in the areas of curriculum development and teacher education, and she plays a direct role in providing support for participating teachers. Joanna has worked for Harvard Business School in various administrative capacities since 2008. In her free time, she likes to garden and travel.

Walter Friedman is a Lecturer at Harvard Business School and directs curriculum development for the Case Method Project. He received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and is author of Birth of a  Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (2004) and Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's  First Economic Forecasters (2013), which won the Hagley Prize in  Business History. At Harvard Business School, Walter is co-editor of Business History Review and directs the  school's Business History Initiative. He is a past president of the Business  History Conference.

Dean Grodzins writes case studies and develops curricular material for the  Case Method Project. He received his A.B. in history from Williams College and  his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. He has served as Lecturer in  History and Literature at Harvard, Professor of History at Meadville Lombard  Theological School, and Editor of The Journal of Unitarian Universalist  History, and has held fellowships from Yale University and the  Massachusetts Historical Society. Dean has published widely on American history  and is the author of American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism (2003),  which won the Alan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians. He has  been working with David Moss since 2013, co-writing case studies with him and  others, seven of which were used in David's History of American Democracy  course at Harvard and published in David’s book Democracy:  A Case Study (2017). Dean also drew a comic strip for twenty years.

Tim Lambert is a writer, researcher, and curriculum developer for the Case Method Project. A native of Amherst, Massachusetts, he received his A.B. in social studies from Harvard College and currently lives in San Francisco, California. Motivated by the belief that everyone deserves a first-rate education, Tim focuses on improving the accessibility of the Case Method Project’s case materials and helping teachers adapt case method teaching to diverse high schools settings. He is an avid consumer of hard science fiction and a restless explorer of the great outdoors.

Julia Monaco works with the teacher support team, and partners with teachers to enable successful implementation of the Case Method in high school classrooms. Originally from California, Julia received her B.A. in American History and French language from Wellesley College, where her history studies focused on the establishment of democratic institutions and inspired the belief that history education should be engaging. Julia spends her weekends freelancing as a professional sports and wedding photographer.

Lani O'Donnell is the staff assistant for the High School Case Method Project where she works with teacher support and survey processing. Prior to working with the Harvard Business School, she assisted with a fellowship that trained data analysts in education policy with the Strategic Data Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Lani also has a passion for history, having worked and volunteered at the Medford Historical Society since 2016. Lani has received her M.A. in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins and her M.A. in History from the Harvard Extension School. In her free time, Lani likes swing dancing, playing board games, and spending time with her four ferrets.

Maureen O'Hern works with the Case Method Project on teacher outreach and mentorship, and is also a history teacher at Boston Collegiate Charter School. Originally from the Bay Area, Maureen received her A.B. in history at Princeton University and her M.Ed at Harvard University before beginning her teaching career at Boston Collegiate. Maureen teaches a combination of high school A.P. and semester-based electives, including a fully case-based course entitled Democracy in America, and is working with the Program to support teachers as they embrace the case method in their courses. In her time outside of the classroom, Maureen can be found cheering on the San Francisco Giants, or out on the field herself, playing softball on Boston-area teams.

Steve Cohen is a retired lawyer who now works on numerous aspects of the Case Method Project, including recruiting and assembling cohorts of teachers for each pilot program. His passion for the Case Method Project comes from a background of political engagement, love of history and democracy, and desire for all students to appreciate their importance within civic life.

Melanie Wachtell Stinnett is Managing Director of the Case Method Institute. Previously, she served for five years as a director of the Tobin Project, a research nonprofit in Cambridge, MA, and practiced appellate law at Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart and Sullivan LLP. She has authored and/or edited several books and articles in the fields of law and public policy. Melanie holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and lives in Boston, MA, with her husband, two children, and one dog.