Suggestion re Harvard Business School cases

Last week, on the Business Librarian's listserve, Stacey Marien, a librarian at the American University in D.C. posted the following information about Harvard Business School cases, which must normally be purchased.


"In every issue of the Harvard Business Review, case studies are printed. If you have a database that indexes the Harvard Business Review (like ABI Inform) or if you have a database that has the Harvard Business Review full text (like Business Source Premier) you can search for a particular case study title within the journal - just like searching for an article title. If the case study happens to have been published in the journal, then you can get it.
I tell my students to search the online site for the Harvard Case Studies, get the title of the case study, then search within the journal HBR to see if the case study was published in the journal."



I tried the reverse...I tried a search on Business Source Premier, limited to the Harvard Business Review, and searched the keywords case study. More than 500 results came up of case studies published in the Harvard Business Review, and Executive Summaries, which summary the articles in the issue, including the case studies. I selected one, "Take the Money and Run," from 2004, and read through it on Business Source Premier. At the end, it gave a reprint number, R0411A, which was listed for sale on the HRB case studies site. (There were several other versions of the case available on this site.)



So, using Business Source Premier for some Harvard Business School case studies is possible.

Rita