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The Asper School of Business finishes off the case competition season with three wins
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Discover upcoming external competitions
Represent the Asper School of Business in prestigious regional, national and international case competitions and compete against the brightest students from other top business schools.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explore internal case competitions
Internal competitions are the perfect opportunity to try out the business case experience with fellow UM students. You will learn how to prepare and analyze a case, receive feedback from judges, and team up with friends to compete to win prizes.
Below is a list of internal case competitions hosted by the Commerce Students’ Association (CSA) and the Asper MBA Students’ Association:
Case Competition 101 Workshop
Date: October 1, 2022 and January 28, 2023 (to be confirmed)
Case Competition 101 will introduce you to the basics of a case competition. You will learn about all elements of a case, how to approach them and presentation examples.
The workshop is a perfect way for you to "test the water" before participating in any competitions.
For more information on this workshop, please contact the Commerce Students' Association.
Introductory Case Competition
Date: October 15, 2022
The Commerce Students' Association’s Introductory case competition is aimed at facilitating a case competition in which students with little to no case competition experience can participate and feel welcome. The introductory case competition will provide participants with the presentation skills, logical thinking, and overall case comp experience needed to pursue future case competitions.
For more information, please contact the Commerce Students' Association.
IG Wealth Management Case Competition (IGCC)
Date: November 18, 2022
IGCC is a one-day event that brings together 40 students of any interdisciplinary focus from the Asper School of Business to compete in an intensive and strategic case study.
The competition is designed to welcome students from all majors and levels of experience.
For more information about IGCC, please contact the Commerce Students' Association.
CSA First Year Case Competition (FYCC)
Date: February 4, 2023
FYCC is open exclusively for first-year Asper students. The analytical and presentation skills you will gain are rarely developed in high school, yet imperative to academic and extracurricular success at Asper.
No prior experience is required.
For more information on the FYCC, please contact the Commerce Students' Association.
AMBASA Case Competition
Open to active Asper MBA students, this case competition is preceded by a workshop. Both will give MBA students an introduction to the world of case competitions.
For more information about this case competition, please contact AMBASA.

Coaches' corner
Asper students receive incredible support from competition coaches comprised of members of our business community. Coaches will provide students with deeper insight into the ever-changing and complex challenges of the business world. The following coaches support our teams:
Results
2022 results
2021 results
Creative Shock case competition hosted by ISM University of Management and Economics in Lithuania
- 3rd place
Ted Rodgers Virtual Ethical Leadership Case Competition
- 1st place
Ethics in Action Case Competition hosted by Dalhousie University
- 1st place - Undergraduate division
- 2nd place - Graduate division
Pivot on Purpose Case Competition
- 2nd place
DeGroote Innovative Solutions Competition
- 1st place
World Mining Competition hosted by the University of Saskatchewan
- 2nd place
STRIVE Conference by the University of Toronto
- 2nd place
International Business Ethics Case Competition (IBECC)
- 1st place - 10 min Undergraduate division
- 1st place - 30 min Undergraduate division
- 1st place - 10 min Graduate division
- 2nd place - 30 min Graduate division
Inter Collegiate Business Competition (ICBC)
- 2nd place - HR division
- Finalist - Ethics division
JDC West
- David Huynh Legacy Award for Executive of the Year
- 1st place - Operations management
- 1st place - Participation
- 2nd place - Business strategy
- 3rd place - Business technology management
- 3rd place - International business
- 3rd place - Marketing
- 3rd place - Entrepreneurship
- 3rd place - Finance
- 3rd place - Academic School of the Year
- 3rd place - School of the Year
- 3rd place (tie) for Skit Night
Other achievements
- 1st place, CFA Global Research Challenge - Prairie division
- 1st place and Division winner, HSBC Digital Workplace Innovation Case Competition
- 1st place, Munich Re Cup
- 1st place, Reimagining Women in Leadership
- 1st place, RMA Credit Analysis Competition
- 2nd place, CFA Societies Canada Ethics Challenge
- 3rd place, Impact Case Competition
- 3rd place and Division winner, Game Plan Case Competition
- 4th place and Division winner, ENGCOMM
- Top 12, Global Case Competition
2020 results
Inter Collegiate Business Competition
- Finalist - MIS division
JDC West
- 1st place - Finance
- 2nd place - Business technology
- 2nd place - International business
- 2nd place - Marketing
- 3rd place - Debate
Other achievements
- 1st place, Ted Rogers Ethical Leadership Case Competition
- 1st place, Okanagan Case Competition
- 2nd place, East Meets West Case Competition
- 3rd place, Degroote Innovative Solutions Case Competition
2019 results
- 2nd place, Ethics and Action Case Competition
- 1st place, East Meets West Case Competition
- Semi-finalists and Division winner, John Molson International Case Competition
2018 results
- 2nd place, Degroote MBA Case Competition
- 2nd place and Division winner, John Molson International Case Competition
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If you are interested in participating in case competitions we recommend taking a case competition course, as participation is competitive and these courses can give you an advantage.
Undergraduate students should consider registering in IDM 4050: Business Case Analysis & Competition. Graduate students should consider registering in GMGT 7350: Business Analysis & Strategy Development and GMGT 7350: Business Case Competitions. Please talk to your program office for more information.
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Judith Jayasuriya [MBA/14]
Lead, Experiential Learning
judy.jayasuriya@umanitoba.ca
Lauren Slegers
Case Competition Coordinator
lauren.slegers@umanitoba.ca