Business 

Obtaining Business School Cases

Due to copyright restrictions, libraries cannot purchase case studies from business schools or put them on reserve.

Some Options:

• Individuals can purchase cases directly from the publisher.

• Instructors can purchase the rights from the publisher to photocopy their personal copy for students.
  

• Faculty can arrange purchases for an upcoming class through a campus bookstore.

Selected Business School Case Collections

Harvard Business School Cases

Darden Business School Cases

Identifying Harvard Business School Cases By Topic

Use this database or the Harvard website above to identify Harvard's cases on a particular company or topic.

• To search for cases by company or topic, enter your keyword on line one in the Advanced Search box. Type "Harvard Business School Cases" in quotations on the second line. From the drop down menu by that line, select SO publication name.>
  

• To browse the list of Harvard cases since 1942, use the Publication Search feature. Type "Harvard Business School Cases" as the publication name.

Some tips to find books on a company, or books that contain chapters or case studies on a company, within the JHU Libraries' Catalog:

• Keyword Title or Keyword Subject search on the name of the company.

• Keyword General or Contents Notes search to search the Table of Contents, if included.

• Subjects Library of Congress search on a company or on a topic. Scroll through the results to scan for subheadings that relate to case studies.

• Subjects Library of Congress search on a broader concept, followed by two dashes and case studies. (e.g. marketing--case studies). This yields records with only these exact subject heading assignments.

• Keyword General search for marketing case* to search chapters, titles and subjects.
  Marketing case studies refines it more.

• Keyword general or keyword title search using these keywords.

case*, case studies, best practices, successes, failures, mistakes, example*