Case Studies

Since 2018 I’ve written dozens of quality case studies, mostly for the University of Oxford as part of the Global History of Capitalism Project (GHoC). These have been used for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, as well as in History, Economics, and Management & Strategy courses. On a few fun occasions, I’ve taught them myself. I also produced teaching notes for almost all of them, which are essentially replicable lesson plans.

The GHoC sought to democratise access to quality education by making our cases freely available – they’re traditionally sold by institutions. If you want a look at the teaching plan for any of the cases below, feel free to send me an email.

As well as Oxford, I’ve produced cases with and for ten other prestigious European universities. I’m passionate about the case study as a pedagogical method, and have constructed and led workshops for established career academics that wished to incorporate the case method into their teaching. Every single alumni of my last workshop began using cases to some extent in their classrooms. If you don’t already, I hope you’ll consider it.

Below are a few of my favourite cases. These are from diverse regions and historical periods, and teach diverse lessons about business practices, the history of economics, and the development of the most dominant economic system on earth.