Business Case Competitions

Alberta Not-For-Profit

Difficulty: Medium-High
Students Eligible: B.Comm (all majors)
Deadline to Express Interest: November 26
Funding: Self-Funded (funding may eligible through UMSU, CSA, & Dean’s Office)
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Competition Dates: February 8-12, 2023 

Alberta School of Business hosts the only live not-for-profit business case competition in Canada each year to bridge the gap between students from all disciplines and NFP organizations. Students from all over the world and from various disciplines will have the opportunity to compete in case analysis and gain a greater understanding of the not-for-profit sector through this competition. The competition consists of one 24 hour case, an interactive case component, networking events, a speaker panel and activities.

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Van Berkom John Molson Small-Cap Case Competition  

Difficulty: Medium
Students Eligible: B.Comm (all majors), MBA and MFin
Deadline to Express Interest: November 26
Funding: Self-Funded (funding may eligible through UMSU, CSA, & Dean’s Office)
Location: Virtual
Qualifying Round: January 

This premier case competition focused on small-cap investment, will provide undergraduate and graduate-level business students with an opportunity to showcase their ability to analyze financial business cases, develop strategic recommendations, and apply the academic skills they have gained in the classroom.

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Heavener International Case Competition

Difficulty: High
Students Eligible: B.Comm (all majors)
Deadline to Express Interest: November 26
Funding: 100% funded
Location: Gainesville, Florida
Competition Dates: February 11-19, 2023

Established in 2016, HICC offers you a week-long business experience in Florida. The goals of the competition are to learn first-hand about strategic challenges and decisions facing global business leaders and to provide you with the opportunity to sharpen your problem-solving, teamwork and communication skills. Twenty teams compete in three rounds in this major American competition. The first round is a 12 hour case, the second round is a 4 hour case and the third round is a 16 hour case.

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CFA Societies Canada Ethics Challenge

The CFA Societies Canada Ethics Challenge is designed to increase students’ awareness of the ethical dilemmas they may face as investment management professionals. Teams consisting of students from finance or business programs are given an ethics case to analyze and evaluate. Each team then presents its analysis and recommendations to a panel of judges, selected by the Host CFA Society.

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John Molson 

Entering its 15th year, the John Molson Undergraduate Case Competition (JMUCC) is a multi-round undergraduate case competition. The week-long event challenges twenty-eight international teams from renowned business schools with unique, challenging, and dynamic cases. Students will compete in four rounds that include three challenging 3-hour cases and one unique 24-hour case covering various industries and business disciplines.

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Haskayne

The Digital Innovation Challenge will create a space where students are challenged to gain insights from analytics to develop a strategy to better an organization. Students will pull together data and turn it into information that provides insights, using analytics as the communication tool. Students will use data to develop strong strategies that remove the gaps in performance within an organization.

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