This guide provides tips and strategies for locating business case studies, which are real or fabricated situations that companies and industries find themselves in.
Case studies are also available for purchase directly from the publishers. Generally, these publishers do not sell business case studies to academic libraries, only to the public.
From the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University, Ivey Publishing provides business cases on international topics and themes. Teaching notes are also provided.
Darden is a rich database of business cases from the University of Virginia. Users can browse by categories like accounting, decision analysis, entrepreneurship & innovation, operations management, and ethics. Cases are available both electronically and in print. Most cases are under USD $7.
Written by faculty members of the Harvard Business School, Harvard Business Review offers a long list of business cases searchable by subject, industry and geographic region. Most cases are under USD $9.
WDI Publishing provides case studies written by faculty members at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Each case costs US $3.95. Not all the cases have teaching notes.
