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If you would like a competition listed here, please contact Mary
Ann Green in Student and Academic Services.
If you are interested in forming a team, the
Enterprise Learning Credit program can help defray travel costs
for a competition.
Summary: Sponsored
by Microsoft and hosted by Cheung Kong GSB, teams of MBA students
will tackle a real-life business problem currently facing Microsoft.
Deadline: November
1
Summary: At the Reaching
Out Conference in San Francisco, CA hosted by UC-Berkeley and Stanford.
Deadline: Late September
Summary: Hosted by
The Texas Energy Finance Group, a McCombs MBA student organization.
Past Sponsors: Chevron, Tesoro, Peabody, Simmons & Co. International,
ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and Merrill Lynch.
Deadline: Late Spring/Early
Fall
Summary: The world's
leading corporations turn over their most pressing strategic dilemmas
to members of MBA programs throughout the world. The most innovative
teams win $30,000 in cash and prizes.
Deadline: Late September
Summary: Form a team
of 3-5 students from any MBA or other master's-level program in
the world to create sustainable and innovative solutions for real-world
business challenges and win the top prize of $20,000 and the title
of "Global Champions of Sustainable Innovation."
Deadline: Late September
Summary: Put together
by second-year Net Impact members to give first-year students exposure
to Net Impact-related business problems and an opportunity to participate
in a social enterprise case competition right at the beginning of
their business school experience.
Deadline: Early Fall
Summary: Provides an
opportunity for students from leading business schools to solve
a hypothetical yet realistic business case of a distressed company
before an audience of experts in the turnaround crisis management
/ restructuring industries.
Deadline: Early Fall
Summary: This competition
combines a business ethics case competition with a unique physical
challenge at the world-class Vail Resort in Colorado.
Deadline: Early November
Summary: The purpose
of the case competition is to bring attention to a critical, real-time
issue in education, and to provide an opportunity for talented and
dedicated graduate students to create potential solutions for the
issue. Several prominent media outlets published pieces on the ELCC's
innovative approach to education reform, including the Oakland Tribune,
CNN , ABC News, and the Financial Times.
Deadline: November
15
Summary: Teams of Yale
graduate/professional students and post-doctoral fellows work together
to solve a finance- and/or marketing-based pharmaceutical case and
then present their solution to a panel of academic and industry
judges.
Deadline: November
30
Summary: The Leeds
Net Impact Case Competition is the premier case format competition
built around businesses facing sustainability challenges, while
succeeding financially. This competition brings the top rated business
schools and future industry leaders to Boulder, Colorado for a two-day
event. The competition is an opportunity to bring together students,
executives and businesses who share a common commitment to sustainable
business practices and financial returns.
Deadline: Late November
Summary: The case is
open to African-American MBA students and multi-racial teams (predominantly
African-American) of up to five students. Previous Cases have focused
on Procter & Gamble and Minority Supplier Specialized Packaging
Group (2003); Fannie Mae Minority Home Ownership Challenge (2004);
and The Coca-Cola Company in South Africa (2005). Competition prizes
include: cash prizes of $20,000, $10,000 and $5,000 to the first,
second and third place teams.
Deadline: Early December
Summary: $25,000 will
be awarded to the best Yale student and/or faculty idea for a product,
service, project or program that advances a more environmentally
sustainable way of life. For more details on the prize and the application
process, visit http://cbey.research.yale.edu/people/programs/sabin-venture-prize
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Deadline: Letter of
Intent: January 23, 2009
Summary: The Fisher
College of Business Office of Minority Student Services hosts this
event in late February. Teams of three, with one alternate from
invited colleges will compete, with each student benefiting from
the opportunity to develop important professional skills such as
analyzing and responding quickly to often-complex business issues.
Deadline: February
1
Summary: Hosted annually
by the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University
in Los Angeles, the competition is the concluding event of a multi-week
program entitled Business Ethics Fortnight. The program consists
of intramural and intercollegiate student team presentation competitions,
final round, and an awards banquet.
Deadline: February
1
Summary: In three rounds,
the teams prove their economic skills by competing in a computer
simulation, a business-plan development and a case study. The teams
present their work in front of a prominent jury.
Deadline: Late July
Summary: The Texas
Energy Finance Group, a McCombs MBA student organization, hosts
the challenge. Chevron, Tesoro, Peabody, Simmons & Co. International,
ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Merrill Lynch, TXU and the McCombs School
Center for Energy Finance Education and Research have sponsored
the challenge in past years.
Deadline: N/A
Summary: The teams
are given several hours to brainstorm and the present their strategy
on operational issues included in the case. The panel of judges
range from industry, government, and academia with backgrounds in
economics, finance, and operations. This competition is by invitation
only.
Deadline: N/A
Summary: Hosted by
Dalhousie University's RBC Centre for Risk Management, this event
pits teams from Canadian and U.S. universities in a two-day competition
of ideas, theory and cutting-edge credit risk decision making. The
central concept is to increase awareness of the importance of credit
risk.
Deadline: N/A
Summary: Competing
teams of up to three members are given four weeks to prepare an
analysis and presentation of a complex business case. Students present
their solutions and defend their analyses before a panel of senior
executives. Scholarships totaling $35,000 are awarded to the top
three ranking teams.
Deadline: N/A
Summary: Sponsored
and hosted in India by IIM Ahmedabad and Reliance Industries Ltd.'s
Confluence Conference.
Deadline: Mid-October
Summary: For new entrepreneurs
committed to global business social responsibilities. Organized
by an SOM alum. The prizes include both cash and in-kind support.
Deadline: Mid-November
Summary: If you have
an incredible idea that could change your community, country or
world then you should apply for an Echoing Green Fellowship. You
could receive up to $90K in seed funding and support to launch a
new organization that turns your idea into action.
Deadline: Early December
Summary: The mai Bangkok
Business Challenge @ Sasin is co-hosted by the Market for Alternative
Investment (mai), Thailand’s Stock Exchange for medium-sized public
companies, and Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration
of Chulalongkorn University. Student teams from around the world
compete for $20K in prizes, with the grand winner also receiving
Thailand’s H.M. the King’s Award.
Deadline: Mid-December
Summary: The first
student-led business plan competition that supports and promotes
social ventures. Sponsored by Yale School of Management, Columbia
Business School, the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, London
Business School, Indian School of Business, the International University
in Geneva, and SVC-Korea.
Deadline: Early January
Summary: Revolves around
emerging industries such as information technology, biotechnology,
sustainable technology, robotics, nanotechnology and telecommunications.
Deadline: Early January
Summary: The largest
and richest intercollegiate MBA/graduate-level business plan competition
in the world, with more prize money, more teams competing, and more
judges than any other competition.
Deadline: Mid February
Summary: The Yale Entrepreneurial
Society (YES) is a student-run program that harnesses the power
of the Yale network, enabling alumni and students to learn from
one another as they promote new venture creation. YES sponsors the
Y50K Entrepreneurship Competition, which awards a total of $100,000
to Yale students.
Deadline: Early February
Summary: Hosted by
the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School
and the only Business Plan Competition in China for graduate students
from around the world, the HKUST Competition provides students with
a unique entrepreneurial opportunity.
Deadline: Mid-February
Summary: Largest and
richest intercollegiate new venture competition in the world for
both US and international teams.
Deadline: Mid-February
Summary: Founded by
the Connecticut Venture Group in 1998, the Connecticut Business
Plan competition is underwritten by the Connecticut Department of
Economic and Community Development (DECD).
Deadline: Fall and
Spring
Summary: Students choose
a nonprofit they believe in and enter a proposal to win funding
for it from JPMorgan.
Deadline: Late October
Summary: The IPO Challenge
will showcase the nation's top business school talent competing
to win a mandate to underwrite an initial public offering ("IPO").
Deadline: Early December
Summary:
Deadline: January 31st
Summary:
Deadline: N/A
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