About Case Research Center

The ICFAI Business School Case Research Center in Hyderabad (IBS CRC) was established in the year 2000 with the vision of building one of the world’s top case development centers in India. The Center has established itself as one of the top case development centers in the world both in terms of the number of cases developed and usage by business schools and organizations. As of 2025, it has more than 7000 cases, all of which are in digital flipbook format. More than 900 B-schools from over 80 countries use the IBS CRC cases – about 90% of them from outside India (mostly from Europe and North America). More than 300 IBS CRC case studies have been published in leading international textbooks.

IBS CRC has won close to 200 national and international awards and prizes from institutions and organizations such as the Academy of Management (AOM), Association of MBAs (AMBA), The Central and Eastern European Management Development Association (CEEMAN), European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), Emerald Group Publishing, Ivey Publishing, NACRA, oikos International (Switzerland), The Case Centre UK, John Molson School of Business (University of Concordia, Canada), AESE Business School (Portugal), Project Management Institute (USA), Syracuse University (USA), USASBE – Baylor (USA), CEIBS (China), MDI Gurgaon, All India Management Association (India), K J Somaiya Institute of Management (India), Aligarh Muslim University (India), and Steel Authority of India (SAIL). Many IBS CRC cases have been translated into other languages such as Spanish, Russian, French, German, Chinese, Serbian, and Portuguese. In line with the New Education Policy, IBS CRC is developing cases in local Indian languages and also on Indian knowledge systems.

IBS CRC has eight of its authors featuring in The Case Centre’s (UK-based world’s largest repository of case studies) Top 50 Bestselling Case Authors’ List for 2023-24. Among the Top 10 bestselling authors in the world, six are from IBS-CRC. CRC ranks second in the world in The Case Centre Impact Index 2024, which ranks organizations based on global reach and the impact of their case writing.