Berkeley Haas Case Series
The Berkeley Haas Case Series is a collection of business case studies created by UC Berkeley faculty
Submission Instructions
Please click on the button below to submit your New Case Application. You will need to create an account if you don't already have one. Once you've created an account,
A BHCS editor will contact you within 7-10 business days when you submit your application.
Note: If you are not a current Haas faculty member, you may still submit a case study for consideration. However, all cases must have a Haas faculty sponsor, who will be listed as the lead author. If you already have a fully developed case study, please contact us. If you are interested in developing a new case study, please consider consulting the Haas faculty directory to find a Haas faculty sponsor who may be interested in working with you on your case study.
Please note that we give priority to case proposals that would have the broadest appeal. Such cases typically:
Authors are required to complete three consent forms prior to publishing their case:
Forms will be sent via DocuSign. We ask that authors review, sign, and return these forms within three business days. Extensions are possible in situations where it may take longer to receive written consent from a signing authority at the subject company.
Authors must obtain copyright permission for all proprietary information that will be part of the case, regardless of whether it was obtained from a public source (e.g., logos, charts, figures, graphs, interviews). This is a critical (and the most often overlooked) requirement of publishing. Copyright acquisition is ALWAYS easier to obtain at the beginning of the case writing process than after the fact.
A case cannot be published or distributed until all necessary written permission has been submitted to the Berkeley-Haas Case Series.
BHCS Exhibit Permissions FormThis form is needed if any copyrighted exhibits or images are used in the case study.
We send new cases to our publishing partners on a quarterly basis. The deadlines below pertain to each quarterly distribution date.
* Note that this deadline is earlier than the other quarters due to the holidays.
The layout of citations should be as follows: Author, “article title,” book title, edition number publisher, place of publication, year of publication, page number. All references to websites must note when the website was accessed. A bibliography of academic sources utilized in the case preparation should go in the teaching note, not in the case.
It's important to note that the public availability of information does not necessarily mean that it's public domain and free for you to use. For example, large extractions of text are examples of material often requiring permission. If material found from a public source is copyrighted, permission must still be obtained (e.g., photographs, logos, screenshots, website content, etc.).
We require a source for each exhibit. Advise as to whether the exhibit is an original document extraction or a creation of the author using data from the original document. Exhibits should be of reproductive quality. Spreadsheets and tables should be inserted into the document as editable objects, not as images, in case further editing is required. All tables, figures, appendices, etc. should be referred to as Exhibits, and should generally be placed at the end of the case.
Unit sales of a case drops off very quickly once it exceeds 8 pages, so we generally prefer cases around 6-8 pages and no more than 10 pages. Photographs significantly increase the electronic file size so use them only where necessary. Referencing an image or video with a URL is a good alternative.
In cases written from public sources, it is not legal to attribute statements, actions, or feelings, etc. to actual persons. You do not know for certain that they are true. Speculating or fictionalizing not only erodes the credibility of the writing but leaves you open to a lawsuit.
Cases should be written in the past tense. The events have already occurred. Industry notes and teaching notes can be written in the present tense.
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