Curriculum and Case Competitions is focused on advancing the net impact opportunities available to Fuqua students by promoting case competitions and helping integrate net impact issues into the curriculum. The vision that we have for case competitions is to become a MBA school known for excellence in performance in MBA case competitions. Regarding curriculum, we aim to assist Fuqua in becoming a top business school through its emphasis on issues that are highly relevant to the Net Impact Club. |
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How To Get Involved
1. Evaluate what social case competitions you would be interested in. Please see Net Impact Case Competitions 2009-2010.xlsx for further details on this year's competitions. 2. If you have an interest in some of the case competitions, please let us know by signing up here.
For more questions regarding Net Impact Curriculum and Case Competitions, contact Alex Michalko. |
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Case Competitions
Represent Fuqua at Upcoming Net Impact and related Case Competitions If you want to represent Fuqua at Net Impact and related case competitions and business plan competitions, we have plenty coming up soon. The following excel file lists and describes the upcoming competitions for the year: Net Impact Case Competitions 2009-2010.xlsx. Contact Anand Kanoria at anand.kanoria@duke.edu if any pique your interest and you want to form a team. We do have a few competitions with registration deadlines fast approaching, so act quickly! |
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Summary of upcoming events (see excel file for full list and details)
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2010 Dell Social Innovation Competition |
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2010 Competition Opens Soon The 2010 Dell Social Innovation Competition launches October 5. Undergraduate and graduate level students from any university or college in the world are eligible to enter. Students who entered the competition last year, but did not make the final round, can re-enter this year with your improved project. The deadline for entry is March 1, 2010!! Past Winners Update Jason Shah, finalist in the 2009 Dell Social Innovation Competition, continues to gain support and acclaim for his innovation named I Need A Pencil.com. Jason is a finalist in the Forbes Boost Your Business Competition and voting ends today. Check out his project and vote for him now. http://www.forbes.com/byb/2009/semi/boost-your-business-contest-09-i-need-a-pencil.html  |
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Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) |
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This year’s internal Venture Capital Investment Competition will be held on January 27, 2010. Click here to see a competition timeline |
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Past Events from the 2009-2010 Academic Year |
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The Winnovation Challenge 2009 - Case Competition |
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When: December 3-4, 2009 Where: Århus, Denmark Audiance: Competition open to all MBA and Engineering students
An international opportunity! Details: Vestas invites you to contend with students from top programs around the world in The Winnovation Challenge 2009. Apply now for your chance to meet Vestas executives in Århus, Denmark, and turn your plan into reality. Vestas is holding a global energy competition for Master Business and Engineering students. Students from all over the world are invited to participate in a case competition and students with the best ideas are flown to Århus, Denmark for a final event. The challenge for business students is business case certainty and the task is to come up with a strategy to drive additional demand for wind energy by lowering one of the costs - financing. Application materials must be received by October 26. Final competition will take place in Århus on December 3-4. The winner will receive two airline tickets for a trip around the world. Go to http://www.vestas.com/winnovation for full registration details and competition rules. If you have any questions about the competition, please don't hesitate to contact Vestas at winnovation@universumusa.com. |
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9th Annual CU Boulder Net Impact Case Competition |
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Don't miss out on the Leeds School of Business Net Impact Case Competition. The first round deadline is fast approaching, so make sure you have plenty of time to get your registration submitted. You won't want to miss out on going to the mountains for some good competition and skiing and representing Fuqua! Important dates include:
Please visit http://nicomp.colorado.edu for information and registration links. This year's main sponsor is Xcel Energy. Feel free to email Chelsea Norton if you have any further questions. |
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Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition |
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Who: Socially Responsible Entrepreneurs Next deadline: December 4, 2009 Presented by: The William James Foundation The William James Foundation will match hundreds of sustainable entrepreneurs with reading judges who will provide detailed feedback, and provide more than $100,000 in cash and in-kind to the top entrants. Details: The William James Foundation supports entrepreneurs who are starting for-profit businesses with defined social and/or environmental goals. We can best help entrepreneurs who are passionate about their expertise (e.g. renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, moving people out of poverty, etc.) but are new to starting their own for-profit business. These entrepreneurs come from all over the world, and range from teenagers starting a community business to PhDs with multi-million dollar ideas for renewable energy. We provide this help through a Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition. Entrants start by submitting a short executive summary (no more than five pages) by December 4th, 2009. Almost all entrants will receive an average of ten pages of constructive feedback per plan per round. This feedback comes from our pool of hundreds of experts from the worlds of finance, academia, in-the-field practice, and other entrepreneurs. This is an excellent opportunity for entrepreneurs to learn from those who have successfully combined their passion for a better world with the rigor of financial sustainability. The top entrants will also have a shot at dozens of prizes that are together worth more than $100,000. Please visit www.williamjamesfoundation.org/criteria to see who can enter and how to do so. Full details on the competition can be found at www.williamjamesfoundation.org. A short handout covering criteria, entering, and prizes is at www.williamjamesfoundation.org/entrant.doc. See a list of more than 40 similar competitions at www.williamjamesfoundation.org/competitions. |
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Gates Foundation Opportunity - Innovative Financial Solutions for Development Competition |
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What: Development Competition sponsored by Gates Foundation. When: Proposals due November 15, 2009 Where: The World Bank, Paris - The winning team will be invited to a two-day summit in Paris in March 2010 Who: Fuqua MBA Students
A personal invitation from Alejandra Villalobos, Strategic Projects Manager at Net Impact (the National chapter): To learn more and submit a proposal, visit www.fininnov.org READ ADDITIONAL DETAILS IN OVERVIEW ATTACHED HERE. |
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Past Events from the 2008-2009 Academic Year
The Education Leadership Case Competition The Education Leadership Case Competition, now in its 3rd year and hosted by the Haas School of Business, is focused on bringing attention to a critical, real-time issue in education on providing an opportunity for talented graduate students to create potential solutions for the issue. This year's competition focuses on the Washington, DC Public School system and the nationally recognized work of D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. In just one year, the Chancellor and her staff have taken dramatic steps to reform the D.C. Public School system. This year's competition will highlight some of the district's greatest human capital challenges. Who: Team of up to 4 graduate students, at least 2 of whom are MBA students What: A live case focusing on education reform Where: Berkeley, California When: Friday-Saturday, February 20-21, 2009
Walmart Better Living Business Plan Challenge 2009 The competition challenges students to invent sustainable products or develop sustainable business solutions and present them to a panel of Walmart executives, suppliers, and environmental organizations. In addition to gaining an audience with some of the top business and sustainability leaders in the United States, the winning school will receive $20,000 to invest in their business or product.
Where: Bentonville, Arkansas When: April 16-17 Prizes: $10,000 and $20,000, and a $5,000 Special Merit Award for 3rd place
Make a Difference, Build your Resume, Raise Duke’s Profile! A Unique Opportunity to Consult to Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley of Procter & Gamble is sponsoring a six campus case competition in partnership with BusinessWeek Magazine.
The Challenge: Sustainability The topic is extremely timely; namely, how to take the P&G sustainability strategy to a new level. As you may know, P&G is a global leader in this area, yet Lafley wants to take their efforts to a totally new level and wants fresh ideas. Over the next five years P&G will develop, market and sell over $20 billon of new environmentally friendly more sustainable products over the next 10 years. They will also, by the end of this decade, reduce their CO2 emissions, waste, energy and water use by another 10% which will be a total of a 40% reduction. A.G. Lafley’s challenge now is how P&G will take this commitment to sustainability to the next level by inspiring and engaging 138 thousand employees around the world in 90 countries. In every business, function and location P&G wants to improve their environmental footprint, deliver products and services of higher environmental quality and sustainability and engage more employees in our social responsibility and sustainability programs. Competition Structure: First rounds of the consulting case competition will take place on each of the six campuses in January. P&G executives will participate directly with students through web-based campus workshops. The winning teams from each campus will be invited by Lafley to P&G headquarters for a review and executive dialogue in February. |
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