I think that every business studies student should be made to study Scottish football. It is a perfect case study in how to completely destroy a business, alienate your customer base and lose any competitiveness you once had.
Take Hearts, for example – and Cala Homes are about to do just that – they give case study 1. Discuss: How does a Chief Executive who trades his way to a near £20 million debt keep his job ? How does selling off your only asset to pay your debts, when you will just have to go into debt to build a replacement, do any good at all.
Case study 2 could come from Inverness. Discuss: What is the business/ moral/ environmental argument for making a club with a perfectly adequate stadium, play 100 miles away in Aberdeen ?
I could go on, and on, and on
Case study 3: how does Chris Robinson sleep at night?
With the doors locked and a couple of security guards at the end of his bed….