Open Access Cases
A number of universities and organizations provide access to free business case studies. Below are some of the best known sources.
- Acadia Institute of Case Studies (archived link) The Acadia Institute of Case Studies is a non-profit centre in the School of Business Administration, Acadia University. The Institute's focus is on entrepreneurship and small business operations.
- Arthur Andersen Case Studies in Business Ethics (Carnegie Mellon) From 1987-1994, Arthur Andersen funded a $5 million joint project with 525 universities to raise awareness of business ethics. This collection of 90 case studies is one product of that effort. All participating universities (includes BU) have license to use these materials and reproduce them as needed for instructional purposes.
- Case Centre Case Centre offers a wide range of free cases produced by many prominent schools and organizations across the globe. You must be registered and logged into the website to access free cases. Once logged in, you can use "show only items in the free case collection" tick box in the product search to search all free cases.
- Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government Statistics: CSBIGS High-quality case studies in modern data analysis ready to use for instruction, training or self-study. (Societe Francaise de Statistique, Toulouse School of Economics, France)
- Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative - Anderson School of Management Online library of simple, straightforward business cases focused on principle-based ethics.
- Enduring Legacies Native Cases: Business and Management Enduring Legacies Native Cases Initiative develop and widely disseminate culturally relevant curriculum and teaching resources in the form of case studies on key issues in Indian Country.
- Ethics Unwrapped - McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin More than 50 case studies match ethics concepts to real world situations. From journalism to performing arts to foreign policy to scientific research to social work, these cases explore a range of current and historic ethical dilemmas, their motivating biases, and their consequences. Each case includes discussion questions, related videos, and a bibliography for further reading.
- IBIMA Business Review Peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes publishing quality Case Studies in all business fields that significantly contribute to practice and support continuous learning efforts in organizations.
- INSEAD Publishing: Cases Currently provides access to 15 free case studies. Registration is required to access the cases.
- Internet Archive Access hundreds of digitized books that include business case studies on a wide variety of topics.
- Ivey Business School (UWO) free cases Ivey is well known for its case method of learning and is a top publisher of business cases worldwide. Approximately 20 free cases are available.
- Journal of Business Cases and Applications Goal is to share cases and exercises developed for classroom use in any area of business education. Subjects include Accounting, Business Administration, Business Law, E-Commerce, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Decision Sciences, Finance, Information Systems, International Business, Management, Marketing, Real Estate, Teaching and Business Education, etc.
- Journal of Business Case Studies (JBCS) Publishes papers that significantly contribute to the understanding of teaching business courses using case studies.
- Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University: Ethics Cases Case studies and scenarios on a variety of fields in applied ethics (including business and leadership).
- MIT Sloan - Case Studies Collection of teaching case studies developed by MIT Sloan faculty and students. May be downloaded, copied, distributed free of charge by anyone through creative commons license. Topics include entrepreneurship, leadership and ethics, operations management, strategy, sustainability, and system dynamics.
- oikos International Cases Currently consists of over 80 peer-reviewed cases on sustainability in management and entrepreneurship.
- Portland State University: Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship Case studies from The School of Business at PSU about Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship.
- Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations From Rutgers' Curriculum Library for Employee Ownership Collection. Includes Free Case Studies of employee owned companies.
- Society of Human Resources Management Case studies are available for HR faculty and instructors to use in HR classrooms at universities, as expressed in the Terms of Use for Faculty. Teaching notes are often included with each.
- SSRN: Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper Series Includes research papers written by Questrom faculty. A small number of cases are included.
- SSRN: Management Educator: Courses, Cases & Teaching eJournal "Promotes innovative approaches to curricular development, course content and delivery systems, student learning, and other educational issues that are important to management faculty to meet the growing demand for discussions, research and analysis on teaching management."
- Stanford Graduate School of Business - free cases Click on "Narrow your results" and then under Availability select "Available to download at no charge."
- Sustainable Development Goals case series-Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University 17 open access cases are currently included.
- Ted Rogers Leadership Centre, Ryerson University: Case Study Collection Cases developed by Ted Rogers Leadership Centre for classroom use.
- University of British Columbia: Open Case Studies Many of the UBC case studies focus on topics in sustainability, but cases on other topics such as business and economics are also included.
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development Case Studies WBCSD is a global, CEO-led organization of over 200 leading businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world.
- Yale School of Management - Free Cases Free cases written by Yale faculty on a variety of topics.
