Compete and Learn
Our students are competitive, but they’re also cooperative leaders, organizing and running national competitions like the ones listed below. They recruit nationally known speakers, oversee logistics and scores of necessary details, and manage significant budgets. It's all part of learning through experience.
MBA students from schools across the country come to "pitch" their new venture opportunity to private equity investors for 2-minutes...in an elevator. The best get expanded face time to present their business plan in hopes of capturing $45,000 to help commercialize their venture. Nationally regarded, TEC helps students experience the challenges of launching new ventures. For more information: elevator@mba.wfu.edu |  |
A premier three-part event that features an undergraduate challenge, an MBA case competition and a marketing forum.
- Undergraduate Challenge-- undergraduate students are given one month to submit a written solution to a pressing issue facing a world-class sponsor. Winning teams will be invited to attend the MBA case competition as the sponsor's V.I.P. guests.
- MBA Case Competition-- the most brilliant MBA and undergraduate minds have only 36 hours to solve current, cutting-edge challenges that face an industry-leading sponsor.
- Marketing Forum-- features some of the most influential corporate and academic marketing minds discussing marketing initiatives in the marketplace.
For more information: marketingsummit@mba.wfu.edu
The KACE National Case-Writing Competition is an outgrowth of the Schools of Business graduate program's successful teaching case competition. Students prepare original teaching cases with teaching notes based on their summer internships. The inaugural competition, funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, was held in January 2001. Participating schools included Harvard, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Chicago, Michigan, Nebraska and Wake Forest. The winning case was from Northwestern. The competition was the winner of the Irwin-McGraw-Hill Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award, presented by the Academy of Management.
For more information: donna.fulp@mba.wfu.edu
PwC Case Competition
In three of the four years, PricewaterhouseCoopers has sponsored its case competition, a Wake Forest student team has been one of five teams selected to participate in the national competition in New York City. Only the first place team receives an award, the Montgomery Cup, in the national competition.
January 2007 – WFU student group took first place in the country.
January 2004 – WFU student group took second place in the country
Net Impact Case Competition
In 2006, top teams of MBA students from University of North Carolina, University of South Carolina, Wake Forest University, University of Georgia, Georgetown University, and Vanderbilt University faced off with a one day competition to develop the best solution to a sustainability-related business problem facing The Home Depot and its partner organization, Hands On Network.
Teams had one week to develop background research and industry information. The specific challenge facing The Home Depot and its partner, Hands on Network, was revealed on the day of the competition. A panel of judges including United Way, Dell, and Hands On Network evaluated the quality of the analysis and the creativity of the solutions provided by each team.
In 2005, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters sponsored the competition and challenged students to present ideas on the viability of sourcing 100% fair trade coffee. Students examined supply chain issues as well as potential marketing strategies.
Kauffman/Angell Center for Entrepreneurship (KACE) National Case-Writing Competition
