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Many academic and business institutions develop and publish case studies. Some of these organizations provide free access to their case studies:
- Acadia Institute of Case Studies Focuses on entrepreneurship and small business operations.
- Business Case Studies by Company
- Business Ethics Case Analyses
- Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety: Workplace Health Case Studies
- Case Centre Available for a fee.
- Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Case Studies
- Give to Get Marketing. Marketing and Advertising Case Studies
- HR Open Source Case Studies
- MarketingSherpa Choose "Case Studies" as the content type in the filters.
- MaRS Search for "case study" in the top right search box.
- MERLOT Business Cases
- MIT LearningEdge Case Studies Free case studies by MIT Sloan School of Management.
- Penske. Logistics Case Studies
- Society of Human Resources Management.
- Open Case Studies Project by UBC The Open Case Studies project at UBC brings together faculty and students from different disciplines to write, edit, and learn with case studies that are free and open.
- World's Best Case Studies Short video case studies covering topics including consumer goods, services, and technology.
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NIO: A Chinese EV Company's Global Strategy
- William C. Kirby
- Noah B. Truwit
India: Will the Giant Emerge?
- Christian H.M. Ketels
- Radhika Kak
JPMorgan Chase in Paris
- Joseph L. Bower
- Dante Roscini
- Elena Corsi
- Michael Norris
OpenAI: Idealism Meets Capitalism
- Shikhar Ghosh
- Shweta Bagai
Generative AI and the Future of Work
- Christopher Stanton
- Matt Higgins
Copilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub
- Frank Nagle
- Shane Greenstein
- Maria P. Roche
- Nataliya Langburd Wright
- Sarah Mehta
Innovation at Moog Inc.
- Brian J. Hall
- Ashley V. Whillans
- Davis Heniford
- Dominika Randle
- Caroline Witten
Innovation at Google Ads: The Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL) (A)
- Linda A. Hill
- Emily Tedards
Juan Valdez: Innovation in Caffeination
- Michael I. Norton
- Jeremy Dann
UGG Steps into the Metaverse
- Shunyuan Zhang
- Sharon Joseph
- Sunil Gupta
- Julia Kelley
Metaverse Wars
- David B. Yoffie
Roblox: Virtual Commerce in the Metaverse
- Ayelet Israeli
- Nicole Tempest Keller
Timnit Gebru: "SILENCED No More" on AI Bias and The Harms of Large Language Models
- Tsedal Neeley
- Stefani Ruper
Hugging Face: Serving AI on a Platform
- Kerry Herman
- Sarah Gulick
SmartOne: Building an AI Data Business
- Karim R. Lakhani
- Pippa Tubman Armerding
- Gamze Yucaoglu
- Fares Khrais
Honeywell and the Great Recession (A)
- Sandra J. Sucher
- Susan Winterberg
Target: Responding to the Recession
- Ranjay Gulati
- Catherine Ross
- Richard S. Ruback
- Royce Yudkoff
Hometown Foods: Changing Price Amid Inflation
- Julian De Freitas
- Jeremy Yang
- Das Narayandas
Elon Musk's Big Bets
- Eric Baldwin
Elon Musk: Balancing Purpose and Risk
Tesla's ceo compensation plan.
- Krishna G. Palepu
- John R. Wells
- Gabriel Ellsworth
China Rapid Finance: The Collapse of China's P2P Lending Industry
- Bonnie Yining Cao
- John P. McHugh
Forbidden City: Launching a Craft Beer in China
- Christopher A. Bartlett
- Carole Carlson
Booking.com
- Stefan Thomke
- Daniela Beyersdorfer
Innovation at Uber: The Launch of Express POOL
- Chiara Farronato
- Alan MacCormack
Racial Discrimination on Airbnb (A)
- Michael Luca
- Scott Stern
- Hyunjin Kim
Unilever's Response to the Future of Work
- William R. Kerr
- Emilie Billaud
- Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej
AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow
- Joseph B. Fuller
- Carl Kreitzberg
Leading Change in Talent at L'Oreal
- Lakshmi Ramarajan
- Vincent Dessain
- Emer Moloney
- William W. George
- Andrew N. McLean
Eve Hall: The African American Investment Fund in Milwaukee
- Steven S. Rogers
- Alterrell Mills
United Housing - Otis Gates
- Mercer Cook
The Home Depot: Leadership in Crisis Management
- Herman B. Leonard
- Marc J. Epstein
- Melissa Tritter
The Great East Japan Earthquake (B): Fast Retailing Group's Response
- Hirotaka Takeuchi
- Kenichi Nonomura
- Dena Neuenschwander
- Meghan Ricci
- Kate Schoch
- Sergey Vartanov
Insurer of Last Resort?: The Federal Financial Response to September 11
- David A. Moss
- Sarah Brennan
Under Armour
- Rory McDonald
- Clayton M. Christensen
- Daniel West
- Jonathan E. Palmer
- Tonia Junker
Hunley, Inc.: Casting for Growth
- John A. Quelch
- James T. Kindley
Bitfury: Blockchain for Government
- Mitchell B. Weiss
Deutsche Bank: Pursuing Blockchain Opportunities (A)
- Lynda M. Applegate
- Christoph Muller-Bloch
Maersk: Betting on Blockchain
- Scott Johnson
Yum! Brands
- Jordan Siegel
- Christopher Poliquin
Bharti Airtel in Africa
- Tanya Bijlani
Li & Fung 2012
- F. Warren McFarlan
- Michael Shih-ta Chen
- Keith Chi-ho Wong
Sony and the JK Wedding Dance
- John Deighton
- Leora Kornfeld
United Breaks Guitars
David dao on united airlines.
- Benjamin Edelman
- Jenny Sanford
Marketing Reading: Digital Marketing
- Joseph Davin
Social Strategy at Nike
- Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
- Ryan Johnson
The Tate's Digital Transformation
Social strategy at american express, mellon financial and the bank of new york.
- Carliss Y. Baldwin
- Ryan D. Taliaferro
The Walt Disney Company and Pixar, Inc.: To Acquire or Not to Acquire?
- Juan Alcacer
- David J. Collis
Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas
- Benjamin C. Esty
Finance Reading: The Mergers and Acquisitions Process
- John Coates
Apple: Privacy vs. Safety? (A)
- Henry W. McGee
- Nien-he Hsieh
- Sarah McAra
Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up
- Leslie K. John
Data Breach at Equifax
- Suraj Srinivasan
- Quinn Pitcher
- Jonah S. Goldberg
Apple's Core
- Noam Wasserman
Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple
- Barbara Feinberg
Apple Inc. in 2012
- Penelope Rossano
Iz-Lynn Chan at Far East Organization (Abridged)
- Anthony J. Mayo
- Dana M. Teppert
Barbara Norris: Leading Change in the General Surgery Unit
- Boris Groysberg
- Nitin Nohria
- Deborah Bell
Adobe Systems: Working Towards a "Suite" Release (A)
- David A. Thomas
- Lauren Barley
Home Nursing of North Carolina
Castronics, llc, gemini investors, angie's list: ratings pioneer turns 20.
- Robert J. Dolan
Basecamp: Pricing
- Frank V. Cespedes
- Robb Fitzsimmons
J.C. Penney's "Fair and Square" Pricing Strategy
J.c. penney's 'fair and square' strategy (c): back to the future.
- Jose B. Alvarez
Osaro: Picking the best path
- James Palano
- Bastiane Huang
HubSpot and Motion AI: Chatbot-Enabled CRM
- Thomas Steenburgh
GROW: Using Artificial Intelligence to Screen Human Intelligence
- Ethan S. Bernstein
- Paul D. McKinnon
- Paul Yarabe
GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (A)
- Prithwiraj Choudhury
- Emma Salomon
TCS: From Physical Offices to Borderless Work
Creating a virtual internship at goldman sachs.
- Iavor Bojinov
- Jan W. Rivkin
Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal
- Nancy F. Koehn
- Kelly McNamara
- Nora N. Khan
- Elizabeth Legris
JCPenney: Back in Business
- K. Shelette Stewart
- Christine Snively
Arup: Building the Water Cube
- Robert G. Eccles
- Amy C. Edmondson
- Dilyana Karadzhova
(Re)Building a Global Team: Tariq Khan at Tek
Managing a global team: greg james at sun microsystems, inc. (a).
- Thomas J. DeLong
Organizational Behavior Reading: Leading Global Teams
Ron ventura at mitchell memorial hospital.
- Heide Abelli
Anthony Starks at InSiL Therapeutics (A)
- Gary P. Pisano
- Vicki L. Sato
Wolfgang Keller at Konigsbrau-TAK (A)
- John J. Gabarro
The 2010 Chilean Mining Rescue (A)
- Faaiza Rashid
IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design
- Ryan W. Buell
- Andrew Otazo
- Benjamin Jones
- Alexis Brownell
Midland Energy Resources, Inc.: Cost of Capital
- Timothy A. Luehrman
- Joel L. Heilprin
Globalizing the Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting at AES
- Mihir A. Desai
- Doug Schillinger
Cost of Capital at Ameritrade
- Mark Mitchell
- Erik Stafford
Finance Reading: Cost of Capital
Circles: series d financing.
- Paul W. Marshall
- Kristin J. Lieb
- William A. Sahlman
- Michael J. Roberts
Andreessen Horowitz
- Thomas R. Eisenmann
Entrepreneurship Reading: Partnering with Venture Capitalists
- Jeffrey J. Bussgang
David Neeleman: Flight Path of a Servant Leader (A)
- Matthew D. Breitfelder
Coach Hurley at St. Anthony High School
- Scott A. Snook
- Bradley C. Lawrence
Shapiro Global
- Michael Brookshire
- Monica Haugen
- Michelle Kravetz
- Sarah Sommer
Kathryn McNeil (A)
- Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
- Jerry Useem
Carol Fishman Cohen: Professional Career Reentry (A)
- Myra M. Hart
- Robin J. Ely
- Susan Wojewoda
Alex Montana at ESH Manufacturing Co.
- Michael Kernish
Michelle Levene (A)
- Tiziana Casciaro
- Victoria W. Winston
John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life
- Howard H. Stevenson
- Janet Kraus
- Shirley M. Spence
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- Arthur Andersen Case Studies in Business Ethics A collection of cases developed in 1987-94, in cooperation with 525 universities, with funding from Arthur Andersen. Free for use for educational purposes, by eligible universities (including Toronto Metropolitan University).
- Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) Workplace health case studies from the Canadian Government.
- MaRS Case Studies Business cases focused on social innovation.
- MIT - Sloan. Learning Edge This resource for management educators and students includes cases on topics such as entrepreneurship, leadership and ethics, operations management, strategy and sustainability.
- Santa Clara University. Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Find case studies and scenarios on a variety of fields in applied ethics.
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A number of universities and organizations provide access to free business case studies. Below are some of the best known sources.
The Open Case Studies project at UBC brings together faculty and students from different disciplines to write, edit, and learn with case studies that are free and open. Short video case studies covering topics including consumer goods, services, and technology.
Get the perspectives and context you need to solve your toughest work problems with these immersive sets of real-world scenarios from Harvard Business School.
Harvard Business Publishing offers case collections from renowned institutions worldwide. Case method teaching immerses students in realistic business situations--which include incomplete information, time constraints, and conflicting goals.
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Free & Open Business Case Studies. Arthur Andersen Case Studies in Business Ethics. A collection of cases developed in 1987-94, in cooperation with 525 universities, with funding from Arthur Andersen. Free for use for educational purposes, by eligible universities (including Toronto Metropolitan University).