In line with Boston University Questrom School of Business’ mission to offer exceptional learning opportunities rooted in a strong emphasis on creating value for the world, it brings a sustainability-themed case competition with one of the largest cash prizes – $50K – among events of this type around the world
The Questrom $50K Sustainability Case Competition will ask interdisciplinary / cross-program student teams, to grapple with and develop solutions for real-life sustainability challenges. The overarching theme of the case competition is on Sustainability, with the following objectives:
a) Seek to solve a current real-world problem
b) Develop solutions that will be commercially and practically viable to build and implement, and ultimately generate a profit and/or support further sustainability initiatives (i.e., analyze and recommend direction amongst multiple strategic choices a company is considering in real-time).
TIMELINE
Registration: Maximum of 30 teams (respectively) from each of the 20+ schools.
Qualifying Round: Each team will be required to submit a 2-page solution on a provided issue / theme.
A panel of judges will anonymously select the top submission from each school.
Semi-Finals: The selected teams will then need to present on a case prompt.
A panel of judges will deliberate on the top teams who will be selected to compete in the next stage.
Finals: The selected teams will then need to present on yet another revised case prompt at the site of the client in the case study.
KEY DATES
August 15th
5pm ESTSeptember 14th
5PM ESTRecorded Information Session
September 14th
5PM ESTSeptember 16th
5PM ESTApplication Deadline
September 18th
Accepted teams notified
September 18th
October 8th
5PM ESTCase 1 deadline
October 22nd
Advancing teams announced
October 22nd
November 12th
5PM ESTCase 2 submission deadline
November 18th
Preliminaries, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Finals rounds on campus
November 18th
APPLY HERE
