Free Teaching Case Studies
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MIT's Learning EdgeFree case studies and simulations from the Sloan School of Management. Topics include:
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Business Case StudiesCaveats:
Case studies can be read online for free, but numerous ads are interspersed throughout text.
Many cases have a European slant.
Search for Article Case Studies
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ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new windowCase study search tip: add this to your search: SU(case studies)
Example: "word of mouth" AND advertising AND SU(case studies)
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Google Scholar with EMU Full Text This link opens in a new windowCase study search tip: add the word "case study" in quotes to your search.
Example: Enron "case study"
Access Tips: Use link above to get access to EMU subscriptions with Findtext+ links. If this link does not work and you receive an error message from Google then use this alternate link to Google Scholar and also set your Google Scholar preferences to show EMU library access links. Search Instruction: Google Scholar Video
Case Study Journals
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Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government StatisticsOpen access journal.
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Journal of Business Case Studies2011 (Vol. 7, no. 6) - present
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Journal of Business Case Studies2009 (Vol. 5, no. 6) - 2011 (Vol. 7, no. 5)
Cases for Sale
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The Case CentreSearch for management case study materials from a number of business schools.
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Harvard Business Publishing - CasesCases are for sale.
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IGI Global Teaching CasesContains a few hundred Business related teaching cases.
Cases are for sale.
About Harvard Business School Publications
Harvard Business School Cases
Harvard Business School Publishing does not sell cases to libraries. In very few instances, cases might be found in the Harvard Business Review magazine--but most cases are published separately. You usually have no option except to purchase HBS cases required for classes.
Harvard Busines Review - HBR
Harvard Business School Publishing refuses to sell electronic subscriptions to libraries; so we have current issues of the Harvard Business Review only in print form at the EMU Library. Links below outline options for obtaining HBR articles.
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HBR Web Site RegistrationAccess a limited number of HBR articles by registering at the HBR.org site.
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Record of HBR issues at EMU Library in print or microfilmMost recent issues are kept at the circulation desk.
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Books 24x7 IT Pro This link opens in a new windowIncludes some e-books with reprints of HBR articles. Try searching by the article title in quotes.
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Google Scholar with EMU Full Text This link opens in a new windowOnce in a while. you can find a free version of an HBR article online by searching GoogleScholar.
Selected Ebooks with Case Studies
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Cases and Exercises in Organization Development and Change
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Publication Date: 2011This comprehensive collection of cases and exercises allows students to practice organization development (OD) skills at the same time as learning about theories of organizational change and human behavior. The first part of the book presents cases about the OD process, and the second part includes cases in organization-wide, team, and individual interventions. The final part provides practical exercises that make the course material come alive through realistic scenarios that organizational change practitioners regularly experience.
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Business Ethics: Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality
Publication Date: 2014The 5th ed of Business Ethics addresses current, intriguing, often complex issues in corporate morality through 53 readings and 30 pertinent case studies. It includes new leading articles, related current cases, and mini-cases based on MBA student dilemmas.
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Learning from Failures
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Publication Date: 2014Learning from Failures provides techniques to explore the root causes of specific disasters and how we can learn from them. It focuses on a number of well-known case studies including: the sinking of the Titanic; the BP Texas City incident; the Chernobyl disaster; the NASA Space Shuttle Columbia accident; the Bhopal disaster; and the Concorde accident. this ebook can be accessed by 1 reader at a time. -
Project Management Case Studies
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Publication Date: 2013Contains 100-plus case studies drawn from real companies to illustrate both successful and poor implementation of project management
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Ethics in Marketing
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Publication Date: 2012Ethics in Marketing contains 20 cases that deal with a variety of ethical issues such as questionable selling practices, exploitative advertising, counterfeiting, product safety, apparent bribery and channel conflict that companies face across the world.
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Global Human Resource Management Casebook
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Publication Date: 2011This is a collection of business teaching cases, focusing on Human Resource Management issues around the world. Each case is based in a single country and illustrates one or more significant challenge faced by managers and HR practitioners. The influence of the unique national cultural and institutional context upon the issues in the case is emphasized.
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Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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Call Number: HD60 .S63 2016Publication Date: 2016This book presents the journeys of social innovators who used their courage, tenacity and creative thinking to find solutions to problems. These cases do not gloss over the setbacks and the dead-ends social entrepreneurs can face. Instead, readers will gain a realistic insight into the challenges and the problem-solving mindset needed to overcome them. -
Case Studies in Operations Research
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Call Number: T57.95 .C374 2015Publication Date: 2015The book considers all methods of optimum decision making in order to improve performance. It also compares possible solutions obtained by different approaches, concluding with a recommendation of the best among them for implementation. -
Case Studies in Organizational Communication: Ethical Perspectives and Practices
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Publication Date: 2013This book integrates ethical theory and practice to help strengthen readers' awareness, judgment and action in organizations by exploring ethical dilemmas in a diverse range of well-known business cases. -
When Good Companies Go Bad
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Call Number: HV 6765 .B43 2014Publication Date: 2014Presents cogent and accessible explanations of some of the most important corporate misconduct cases of this century. Includes a bibliography for further research, an appendix of corporations, and sidebars containing additional information such as clarifying details and related topics and websites.
What is a case study?
The phrase case study can mean different things:
Teaching Cases
These cases are devised specifically for use in the classroom. Sometimes they are about real companies & situations; and sometimes they are based on fictional companies/situations. They don't give the solution, as students are meant to analyse the situation and offer solutions.
Case Study Articles
These are articles which describe a specific business situation and usually offer analysis and/or solutions. They may provide lessons that can be applied to other situations. These can be peer reviewed and found in scholarly publications or they can be found in trade publications.
Case Studies as Marketing Tools
For marketing purposes, a company may write up case studies describing how their service or product was used sucessfully. These can be found on the web, in trade periodicals, and as white papers (a name for a type of report). These usually are not peer reviewed. You should be especially careful to evaluate these critically.
