i am looking for good cases studies on options, financial and real, and investment decisions. ideal would be cases which are freely available with solutions. i am also looking for guides about case studies, how to approach them, solve them in a structured way and general background on case studies (origin, history (harvard?), etc.)

Most case studies do not have written solutions. HBS has teaching notes that are only available to professors and are not well circulated since they are not "solutions manuals." They are more likediscussion points. In an MBA program, professors go over case studiesbut do not typically provide answer keys. Most actual business cases do not have acorrect answer, they have multiple solutions whichsolve the problem to varying degrees. You may be in for a long search.QuoteOriginally posted by: nugetto2003i am looking for good cases studies on options, financial and real, and investment decisions. ideal would be cases which are freely available with solutions. i am also looking for guides about case studies, how to approach them, solve them in a structured way and general background on case studies (origin, history (harvard?), etc.)

i agree, i should not expect a step by step solution to a case study. but there should be some hints what to look for and most importantly, what to present wehn it comes to solution implementations.