University of Notre Dame, in conjunction with Wadsworth Publishing Company, has created a database of cases which will be available for educators to use in their sociology courses, especially introductory courses. The WWW site provides basic information on the project, an opportunity for you to submit your own ideas for cases, a sample case, and links to other sites about cases and case method teaching. The Case Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government is the world's largest producer and repository of case studies designed for teaching about how government works and how public policy is made. On the Web site, you can read descriptions of the Kennedy School's almost 1500 cases, as well as find guides to how to teach and learn by the case method. The Darden case collection, maintained by the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, includes over 1000 cases.
Abstracts are available and the collection can be searched by keyword.
Cases can be ordered directly online. Based on the campus of Cranfield University in the U.K., the clearinghouse maintains and distributes business cases developed by the Cranfield School of Management and the London Business School, as well as the business schools at Harvard, University of Western Ontario, and University of Virginia.