Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, USA

The University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business case collection is focused entirely on communication in business organizations. The 250 cases offered here comprise a wide range of corporate communication disciplines and interests, including Employee Communication; Media Relations; Crisis Communication; Investor Relations; Image, Identity, and Reputation Management; Executive Communication and Public Affairs.

The Notre Dame collection, produced by research scholars in the Fanning Center for Business Communication, encompasses the full range of industrial categories and economic sectors in contemporary global business. Most of the cases focus on Fortune 500 brand names and issues of current interest to managers and executives across the business world. Each case comes with an embedded student writing assignment and an optional PowerPoint deck and Teaching Note for instructor use.

Founded in 1842, the University of Notre Dame provides a distinctive voice in higher education that is at once rigorously intellectual, unapologetically moral in orientation, and firmly embracing of a service ethos. The nation’s pre-eminent Catholic university and rated among the top 15 of all U.S. institutions of higher learning, Notre Dame is organized into four undergraduate colleges — Arts and Letters, Science, Engineering, and the Mendoza College of Business — the School of Architecture, the Keough School of Global Affairs, the Law School, the Graduate School, 13 major research institutes, more than 40 centers and special programs, and the University library system.

The Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame is a premier Catholic business school that fosters academic excellence while promoting business as a force for good in society. A leader in values-based education with the message of Ask More of Business™, the College offers innovative coursework that integrates real-life case studies, a faculty renowned for teaching and research, international study opportunities, and interactions with some of the foremost business thought leaders.

The Eugene D. Fanning Center for Business Communication at Notre Dame provides instruction, guidance, and counsel in writing, speaking, and other dimensions of human communication. At the heart of this mission is a concern for the individual, a focus on ethics and integrity in business.

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