This world class competition highlights the strategic challenges and managerial dilemmas faced by global business leaders. Competing teams from premier business schools work under pressure to solve a real business problem, using simulated business conditions such as time critical deadlines and incomplete information, to formulate workable, action-oriented recommendations. The Teams A carefully balanced mix of top-ranked international and US business schools are invited to participate each year.
Teams consist of four students and a faculty advisor.
Team members typically possess expertise in a wide range of business disciplines from finance, marketing, economics and accounting, to international issues, technology, quantitative thinking, and management. The Competition Teams are presented with a business case study on Thursday morning, February 22nd. They have approximately twenty-four hours to research, analyze and develop a set of action plans, make recommendations, and prepare their presentations. Judging Teams are judged by a panel of industry experts including CEO s, top management executives and consultants. Each team has twenty minutes to present their case analysis and recommendations from a required written overview.