The Faculty of Economics undergraduate team known as ‘Oz Consulting’ has won the 2009 Citi International Case competition at HKUST, Hong Kong with an innovative ten-year business plan for the world’s leading Smartcard Company. The University of Southern California and National University of Singapore came second and third respectively.
Held in Hong Kong from November 2-5, the seventh annual Citi International Case Competition (CICC) attracted a record 21 teams from ten countries: Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, Singapore, Thailand and the US. The Citi International Case Competition is jointly organised by Citi and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s School of Business and Management (HKUST), and sponsored by the Citi Foundation.
Case competitions are among the most demanding of BCom enrichment activities. Case competitions give students the opportunity to deal with challenges facing an actual company, a fantastic example of knowledge transfer. Students require highly developed analytical skills, outstanding presentations skills, team work and leadership, and extraordinary stamina. To succeed students must also work under intense pressure, with limited respite.
Victory does not come easily. The Faculty has a careful selection process and many weeks sacrificing Saturdays are spent of intensive training. Excellent training is always provided by Professor Greg Whitwell, colleagues in marketing Professor Simon Bell and accounting Dr Jennifer Grafton who gave up their valuable time to train the students. Special thanks also goes to past participants Tristan Webster and Marc Costabile who provided advice in practice sessions on analytical and presentation skills, and whom are now employed by leading consulting firms themselves.
Such case competitions brings together outstanding students from leading business schools from around the world to compete; all get to see the quality of the undergraduate education that they obtain at Melbourne enables them to compete effectively against some of the most widely respected business schools in the world. The result at CCIC is evidence that our graduates can justly say that they are world class.
http://www.bm.ust.hk/bm/Web/PressReleasePage.aspx?PressReleaseId=149&Version=English
Hong Kong Case Competition Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unimelb_commerce/sets/72157622695945719/
Further information about Commerce Case Competitions can be found at
http://www.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/experience/case_study/
Source: Commerce Student Centre
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