Business Case Competition

Initiative: Higher Education
 
Initiative Sponsors: Shell

See Side Panel for 2008 PDF Application Packet

The 2008 Business Case Competition titled “Shell Lubricants and Jiffy Lube: Managing the Portfolio” is sponsored by Shell and will award $35K in prizes.  Deadline for applications is Tuesday December 11^th, 2007 at 6pm (EST). The final competition will be held March 13^th, 2008 Houston, TX 

Previous Cases developed with the former Business Case sponsor, Goldman Sachs, have focused on: The AOL-Time Warner Merger (2002); Procter & Gamble and Minority Supplier Specialized Packaging Group (2003); Fannie Mae and the Minority Home Ownership Challenge (2004); and The Coca-Cola Company in South Africa: The Case for Black Economic Empowerment (2005).  Each year students from some 35 or more graduate schools are invited to participate.

Senior executives and CEOs from the companies profiled have participated in the development of the cases and/or the final competition. Competition prizes include: cash prizes of $20,000, $10,000 and $5,000 to the first, second and third place teams, respectively; crystal trophies for the winning schools.