September 22, 2022. Shanghai – Earlier this month, Professor of Accounting and Director of the CEIBS Case Centre Chen Shimin visited both Harvard Business Publishing – Education in the US and Ivey Publishing in Canada. During his visits, he shared updates with the school’s partners on the development of the Global Platform of China Cases (ChinaCases.Org) as well as the review criteria and accepted cases for the Global Contest for the Best China-Focused Cases.

The visits also produced consensus on stepping up cooperation in a number of ways, including the creation of an “express channel” for the inclusion of selected ChinaCases.Org cases in the Ivey Publishing library and the acceptance of non-CEIBS cases submitted by ChinaCases.Org for review by the Harvard case library for the first time.

Since 2005, CEIBS has contributed 66 in-house cases to Ivey Publishing. The two sides extended their cooperation agreement in 2020 when ChinaCases.Org agreed to include Ivey’s China-themed cases in its library (over 1,150 of which have now gone live on its platform). CEIBS first partnered with Harvard case library in 2019 with plans to submit 30-40 cases every year (65 of which have been published to date).

CEIBS’ cooperation with Ivey and Harvard attests to ChinaCases.Org’s growing recognition in global management education community, and Prof. Chen’s visits will pave the way for more cases developed by Chinese business schools to enter world-class case libraries.

ChinaCases.Org was developed by CEIBS in partnership with other Shanghai-based business schools and the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong with the support of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Shanghai Academic Degrees Office, and Shanghai MBA Education Steering Committee. After a decade of development, the library now houses 2,425 cases covering 19 disciplines and 21 industries and has served more than 4,400 teachers from more than 50 universities in China.

ChinaCases.Org also welcomes submissions for the Global Contest for the Best China-Focused Cases. Now in its seventh year, the contest focuses on management issues in a Chinese context while a pool of over 60 expert reviewers from China and around the world ensures high standards on par with those of international contests.

CEIBS and ChinaCases.Org, Harvard and Ivey are members of the International Community of Case Publishers (ICCP), a community of the world’s leading institutions in case development and publishing. As the only ICCP member in mainland China, CEIBS is well-positioned to promote the publication of high-quality cases from Chinese business schools in international libraries. In doing so, the school hopes to bring more China-focused cases into the classrooms of global business schools while contributing Chinese wisdom to the international community.

Writer:  Xiaolin YUAN   Editor: Michael Donald THEDE