Interview Techniques

Interviews are essential to qualitative research in management science. No matter if you’re writing a case study for your paper or for your teaching, you cannot do it without interviews.

How can you get the best out of an interview? How do you get your interviewee to open up? How do you control the pace and flow? What kind of questions do you ask to start an interview on the right track? How do you ask sensitive or embarrassing questions? And how do you react if the interviewee isn’t cooperating or talks too much?

We are honored to have Lauren Comiteau share her 20-plus-years of journalist experience with us. A native New Yorker, Lauren has lived in The Netherlands for the last 17 years. She has covered the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and other news from the Netherlands for CBS Radio, CBC, BBC, TIME, USA Today, People, The Daily Telegraph, AP, Reuters and many other media. She also teaches journalism to graduate students in the University of Groningen’s English-language masters program.

Lauren guest lectured her interview techniques at the CDC Case Writing Workshop in May and received enthusiastic responses. Now she will give an extended seminar on this topic.