Guide To MBA Case Competitions

Desautels Integrated Management Case Competition – McGill University, Montreal, Canada

March 26-28, 2015 (inaugural)

McGill University, Montreal

First prize: $5,000

Open to: MBA students

Focus: apply multi-perspective “integrated management” technique to business problems

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National MBA HumanCapital Case Competition – Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management

Annual, October 2014

2014 winner: Cornell University team

First prize: $10,000 (2014)

Focus: human capital strategy

Open to: MBA students

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National MBA Case Competition in Ethical Leadership – Baylor University

Nov. 11-13, 2015

2014 winner: Baylor University

First prize: $5,000

Focus: developing ethical leadership

Open to: MBA students

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National Real Estate Challenge – University of Texas McCombs School of Business

Nov. 18-19, 2015

2014 winner: Columbia University

Prizes: $25,000 total to four finalist teams

Focus: real estate

Open to: business school graduate students

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Smeal MBA Sustainability Case Competition – Penn State Smeal College of Business

December 2014 (inaugural)

2014 winner: Purdue University

First prize: $10,000 (2014)

Focus: sustainable enterprise

Open to: MBA students

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Ten Plus Supply Chain Dual Case Challenge – Rutgers University

March 26-28, 2015

New Brunswick, N.J.

First prize: $3,000

Focus: supply chain

Open to: MBA and undergraduate students

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The CASE – MIT Center for Real Estate Alumni Association

Annual, underway, finishing April 2015

2014 (London)

2014 winner: Georgetown

Cash prizes at the discretion of CASE executive committee

Focus: asset-level real estate acquisition and development underwriting

Open to: graduate students

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The Economist International MBA Case Study Competition

2015 inaugural event

2015 winner: Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

First prize: $10,000 (2015)

Focus: For 2015, evaluating a real estate website takeover in a stock-only transaction

Open to: MBA students

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Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Finance Case Competition – Tulane University Freeman School of Business

April 17, 2015

2014 winner: Vanderbilt University

First prize: $7,000 (2014)

Focus: finance

Open to: MBA students

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