Guide To MBA Case Competitions

Grand Business Challenge in Digital Health – Boston University

March 26-28, 2015

2014 winner: Fudan University School of Management, Shanghai

First prize: $25,000 (2015)

Focus: information technology’s transformation of global healthcare

Open to: MBA students

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Cerebration Global Case Competition – National University of Singapore

November 2014

Winner: School of Business Management, NMIMS Mumbai

First prize: $10,000 (2014)

Focus: real-world business challenges of sponsor firms

Open to: MBA students

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Deloitte National Case Competition – Deloitte University, Westlake, Texas

Annual, January 2015

2015 winner: Kellogg School of Management team

Total prize pool: $50,000 (2015)

First prize: $20,000 (2014)

Focus: critical thinking, business knowledge, strategic problem solving

Open to: MBA students

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Game Day Sports Case Competition – UCLA Anderson School of Management and Villanova University

April 11, 2015 – at Villanova University

2014 winner: Harvard University

Prize money: $10,000; 2014 first prize: $5,000

Focus: bring together MBA and law students to solve real-world sports business problems

Open to: MBA and JD students

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International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition

Underway at California State University Long Beach, finishing April 2015

2014 winners: various

Focus: teams, as individual manufacturing companies, fight it out in simulated worlds

Open to: MBA and undergraduate students

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itSMF Student Case Competition

October 2014

Washington, D.C.

Winner: University of Indiana

First prize: $5,000 (2014)

Focus: service management

Open to: graduate students

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John Molson International Case Competition – Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Annual, January 2015

2015 winner: Nanyang Business School of Singapore

Focus: challenging contestants’ knowledge and communications skills

Open to: MBA students

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Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition – Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management

Annual, January 2015

2015 winner: University of Chicago Booth School of Business team

First prize: $5,000 (2015)

Focus: biotech/healthcare

Open to: MBA students