The competition
Press interest
The results
The participants
The schools
The case
The event organiser
The event sponsor
Press releases
The competition
The leading 50 business schools in Europe* were invited to take part in the European Business Schools Case Challenge 2007. This involves teams of 5 graduate students working under intense pressure on a specially commissioned management case study. Fourteen schools took part in the case challenge at INSEAD, Fontainebleau from 13-14 April 2007. INSEAD was the overall winner of the 2005 event.
*according to The Financial Times Top 50 European Business Schools, published in December 2005
Press interest
The case challenge will be of interest to a wide spectrum of journalists and media including:
- followers of business schools and management education
- those interested in teaching methods
- those interested in business theory and management
- international business media
- followers of student competitions - reportage/news
- local media interest across Europe in following the fortunes of specific teams
ecch can provide tailored and international press information and photographs of the competition. Interviews with participating schools, judges and senior ecch staff can be arranged.
The results
IMD, Switzerland won the event with UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business, Ireland in second place and WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany in third place. Helsinki School of Economics, Finland and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK also made it through to the second stage of the competition.
The participants
The participating students, all at European business schools, came from every continent, with around half from outside Europe, suggesting the global strength of European business schools in providing a top alternative to the US schools for ambitious MBA students. Just under a quarter of the participants were women. Fuller details available on request.
The schools
The top business schools in Europe were invited to take part in the case challenge 2007. They were required to select a team of five of their MBA students to take part. The participating schools were all from The Financial Times Top 50 European Business Schools, published in December 2005. They were Cass Business School, City University (UK), Cranfield School of Management (UK), Groupe HEC Paris (France), Helsinki School of Economics (Finland), IESE Business School (Spain), IMD (Switzerland), INSEAD (France), Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (UK), London Business School (UK), Manchester Business School (UK), Said Business School, University of Oxford (UK), Solvay Business School (Belgium), UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business (Ireland) and WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany).
The case
The case featured the OSCar project, initiated by Hugo Spowers, to develop zero environmental-impact cars using advanced hydrogen fuel cell and other novel technologies; the project also featured new approaches to company structure and financing, ownership, investment, vehicle life and ownership plus non-patented technology development so that other companies could produce the vehicles without royalties.
The event organiser
ecch is the world's largest single source of management case studies; it is run by academics for academics. ecch publishes case studies by authors at leading business schools and independents. It also supports the development of case writing and teaching with workshops at institutions worldwide.
Set up in 1973 as a joint initiative of 22 UK higher education institutions. Now international, ecch is an independent non-profit membership body with charity status. It has offices at Cranfield University in the UK and Babson College in the USA.
The event sponsor
Since its founding in 1963, The Boston Consulting Group has focused on helping clients achieve competitive advantage. The firm believes that best practices or benchmarks are rarely enough to create lasting value and that positive change requires new insight into economics and markets and the organisational capabilities to chart and deliver on winning strategies. They consider every assignment to be a unique set of opportunities and constraints for which no standard solution will be adequate. BCG has 63 offices in 37 countries and serves companies in all industries and markets.
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