Business OER & Fair Use

Some organizations offer "free" case studies and materials for idea generation. These sites provide varying degrees of teaching support. Faculty may need to register for access to teaching notes and materials.

• Arthur Andersen Case Studies in Business Ethics

  This collection includes 85 mini-cases and 5 major cases. See additional information on the website for usage information.

• Case Centre

  Some free cases produced by a number of prominent schools and organisations across the globe.
  You must register, as an educator, to access free cases. In addition, licenses are available for purchase to their entire case archive.

• Copenhagen Business School

  These cases focus on aspects of responsible management, including social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability.

• Ethics Cases | Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

  This site from Santa Clara University provides ethics cases in business, government, leadership, ESG topics, etc.

• Ethics Unwrapped

  Case studies, curated resources, and videos from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin.

• Knowledge at Wharton

  Offers free access to over 10,000 articles and podcasts and videos highlighting Wharton faculty research and analysis of current business trends.

• MaRS

  Case studies about business in Canada and the UK. Especially aimed at entrepreneurs. Search the site for case study.

• Merlot OER Case Studies

  Merlot collects Open Educational Resources. This link is a search for business case materials that may be used for free.

• LearningEdge Case Studies

  LearningEdge is a collection of teaching case studies and simulations developed by MIT Sloan faculty and students.

• Oikos Free Case Collection

  Oikos provides peer-reviewed, Creative Commons licensed case studies on sustainability, management, entrepreneurship, and finance.

• Open Case Studies at UBC

  These open case studies were created by faculty and students at the University of British Columbia. While many of these case studies focus on sustainability, they feature a broad range of topics across disciplines.

• SHRM Teaching Resources

  "SHRM is committed to empowering HR faculty with the proper tools and resources needed to create better-prepared entry level HR candidates. These case studies and learning modules are available for faculty and educator use only."

• Stanford Graduate School of Business: Case Studies

  After running search click on Narrow your results, then scroll to the bottom to filter results to those that are Available to download at no charge.

Commercial cases, like those from Harvard Business School, Ivey and others:

• a copy of the case is to be purchased by/for each student in a class
• like workbooks and other consumables, may not be copied under copyright "fair use"
• the library cannot purchase or get copies on interlibrary loan (ILL)

Case studies used in the classroom, which we at the library call the "case study method" of educational pedagogy, usually present the case facts and, rather than provide the solution, provide alternative solutions and/or questions to lead discussion or challenge students to apply theories learned in their course. Commercial publishers often provide faculty with teaching notes and other resources to facilitate student learning.