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| Case Centre | |
|---|---|
| Name | Case Centre |
| Formation | 1973 |
| Headquarters | United Kingdom |
| Type | Non-profit organisation |
| Purpose | Distribution of teaching materials |
Case Centre is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to the distribution and promotion of case method teaching materials and case studies. Founded in 1973, the organisation serves academic institutions, corporate trainers, and individual educators by curating a global repository of Harvard Business School-style cases and materials from INSEAD, Stanford Graduate School of Business, London Business School, and other institutions. It functions as a central marketplace and clearinghouse linking authors such as Michael Porter, Clayton Christensen, Peter Drucker, and publishers like McGraw-Hill and Pearson with educators at University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Columbia University, University of Chicago, and international firms.
The organisation emerged in 1973 amid expansions in case pedagogy influenced by pioneers including Christopher Columbus Langdell at Harvard Law School traditions, and the diffusion of business case use through institutions like Harvard Business School, IMD, and ESADE. Early activities involved cataloguing case materials from prominent schools such as Wharton School, Kellogg School of Management, and Sloan School of Management and establishing distribution relationships with publishers including Wiley and Elsevier. During the 1980s and 1990s it expanded internationally, incorporating contributions from Nanyang Technological University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, and University of São Paulo. The organisation navigated digital transitions paralleling initiatives at MIT OpenCourseWare and Coursera, digitising collections and introducing online ordering systems used by academics at Yale School of Management and Duke University.
The organisation’s stated mission includes improving teaching practice through access to case materials and supporting authorship and dissemination. It organises events such as case writing workshops attended by faculty from University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and corporate educators from McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, and Accenture. It runs awards and recognition programmes akin to Nobel Prize-style accolades within the pedagogy community, highlighting influential works by authors affiliated with University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, and University of Texas at Austin. The organisation also provides training resources referencing methodological standards advanced by scholars at London School of Economics, IE Business School, and HEC Paris.
The repository includes tens of thousands of case studies, teaching notes, simulations, and multimedia from contributors such as Harvard Business Publishing, IESE Business School, Australian Graduate School of Management, Rotman School of Management, and ESADE Business School. Access mechanisms accommodate institutional subscriptions from libraries at New York University, University of Toronto, University of Melbourne, and individual purchases used by professors at Brown University and Emory University. Licensing arrangements reflect agreements with rights-holders like Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press and provide options for classroom use at executive programmes run by IMD Lausanne and Singapore Management University. Digital access includes DRM-protected PDFs and specialist cases in languages used by academics at Seoul National University and Fudan University.
Collaborations span academic alliances with Case Western Reserve University (distinct institution name only), executive education providers such as Harvard Business School Executive Education, corporate training partnerships with General Electric leadership programmes, and public-sector training with agencies modelled on World Bank capacity-building. The organisation tracks adoption metrics similar to evaluative studies published by scholars at Stanford University and University College London and contributes to curricula at institutions including IE Business School, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Korea University Business School, and Rotterdam School of Management. It also partners with research funders such as European Commission programmes and foundations like Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop cases addressing topics studied at Johns Hopkins University and Imperial College London.
Governance is typically overseen by a board featuring representatives from major academic contributors such as Harvard Business School, INSEAD, London Business School, and University of Pennsylvania. Funding sources include sales revenue from case distribution, membership fees from affiliates like CEMS, grant awards from bodies such as European Research Council, and occasional sponsorships by corporate partners including IBM and Microsoft. Financial oversight follows nonprofit reporting norms used by charities registered in jurisdictions alongside organisations like Wellcome Trust and The Rockefeller Foundation. Editorial standards are set collaboratively with editorial boards comprising faculty from Hult International Business School, ESADE, and Manchester Business School.
Critics have questioned pricing models and access equity, drawing comparisons to debates involving Elsevier and Springer Nature over scholarly publishing costs raised by consortia including Coalition S and advocacy groups at Open Knowledge Foundation. Some academics have critiqued selection biases favouring cases from elite institutions like Harvard Business School or INSEAD, pointing to underrepresentation of cases from African Leadership University, Makerere University, and regional schools such as Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Intellectual property disputes have occurred involving authors linked to Stanford Graduate School of Business and publishers like McGraw-Hill Education', and controversies over case anonymisation practices echo debates addressed by committees at American Educational Research Association and ethics reviews at Ethics Committee of the British Medical Journal-style bodies. Calls for greater open-access initiatives cite models advanced by MIT and movements supported by OpenAI-adjacent policy discussions.
Category:Educational publishing organizations