Internal Case Competitions
E-Business Case Competition(Spring 2012)
Sponsored by Cisco Systems, Deloitte Consulting, the Schlinger Family Foundation,
and the Haas Undergraduate Program
The Haas Undergraduate Program, in association with Cisco Systems, Deloitte Consulting and the Schlinger Family Foundation, is proud to present its 13th annual E-Business Case Competition to undergraduate students of all majors and levels. This is a great opportunity for students to demonstrate and further develop their skill base. This case is especially ideal for those students considering a career in management consulting, high tech strategy or operations, international business, and eCommerce end user applications. Additionally, the winning team will receive Deloitte goodies and have the opportunity to participate in an exclusive Deloitte office tour, lunch with a Partner and a Q&A session with a panel of practitioners. The final round participants will also be eligible to be selected for the fall 2012 Haas external case competition team(s) (e.g. Hong Kong and Singapore).
Teams
Undergraduate students are encouraged to form teams of four, though a team may compete with a minimum of three individuals. To replicate the work environments that you will enter upon graduation, there must be at least one team member who is a Haas major and one team member who is not a Haas major. Simultaneous degree students majoring in business and another major will be considered a Haas major.
Sign-up Procedures
Sign-ups begin online Monday, February 20, 2012 at 8:00am and end Friday, March 2, 2012 at midnight via CampusGroups. Go to https://haasug.campusgroups.com/calendar and click on April 12, 2012, which leads you to the registration page. Select one team member to complete the registration for the entire team. We suggest using the Haas major as
they are already familiar with the CampusGroups site. Whoever completes the registration, will need each
team members’ name, e-mail address, graduation date and major(s).
The Case
Case materials and instructions will be available on Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Students will be notified about the case distribution via the e-business@lists.haas.berkeley.edu alias. All participants must subscribe themselves to this e-mail alias/list. Please click here to subscribe to this list. The case is now available. Please click here to download (.pdf). Good Luck!
Case Submission Process
Questions asked in the case should be answered in written product, similar to discussion materials often used in business and with a maximum of 10 PowerPoint slides, not including the title page and appendices. Cases will be due on Friday, Mar 23, 2012 by 5:00 PM. For submission:
1. Your PowerPoint presentation should be converted to a PDF document.
2.
E-mail your PDF presentation file to casesubmission@lists.haas.berkeley.edu and include the team name (per registration) in the subject line of your message.
3. Your message size cannot exceed 5 MB.
4.
Finalists: your photos, video and slide deck may be used on the Haas Undergraduate Program websites and for training purposes.
“Approaching the Case” Workshop
“Approaching the Case” Workshop Representatives from Deloitte Consulting will provide thoughts on how to approach the case on Friday, March 9th via a WebEx meeting:
WebEx dial-in information: Meeting Number: 603091419
To join this meeting (mobile devices are supported)
- Go to this link
- Enter the meeting password: case
- Click "Join Now"
- Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
Please note that if you have not used WebEx before, you may be required to install some plug-ins from ActiveX or WebEx. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
If you are having issues with the web meeting, you can only join by teleconference only:
- Dial 408-525-6800 or 866-432-9903 (toll free)
- Follow the prompts to enter the Meeting Number 603091419 followed by the # sign.
Mentorship Opportunity
Representatives from Deloitte Consulting will be assigned to each of the finalist team as mentors to provide support and answer any questions the teams may have leading up to the final round presentations.
Final Competition
Three to four teams will be selected to participate in the final round. All teams, including the finalists, will be notified by Friday, April 6, 2012. Final presentation will be on Thursday, April 12, at 6pm, in the Wells Fargo Room (C420). Finalists’ final presentation times will be communicated via e-mail.
All participants must add themselves to the case competition alias: e-business@haas.berkeley.edu by using the CalMail Mailing List Services website by clicking here. If you need technical assistance with this list, please contact the Haas Computing Services Helpdesk.
Timeline Recap for Spring 2012
February 20: Sign-ups via CampusGroups
March 2: Sign-ups end at midnight (11:55pm)
March 7: Case is released and instructions available on this website
March 9: “Approaching the Case” workshop via WebEx meeting (details above)
March 23: Cases are due
April 6: Finalists announced via email by 5:00 pm
April 12: Final Presentations
*All updates and communication will be communicated via this website and/or e-mail.
Investment Banking Case Competition (Fall 2011)
Fourteenth Annual
Investment Banking Case Competition
Hosted by Goldman Sachs and the Haas Undergraduate Program.
Sign-ups begin on-line on Thursday, 9/1/2011 and end Sunday, 9/18/ 2011 via CampusGroups website. Go to to https://haasug.campusgroups.com/calendar and click on September 1st. You will need the following information for each team member:
name, e-mail address, graduation date and major(s). One student should volunteer to sign-up your entire team during our open on-line sign-up. Please have your team decide who this "volunteer" is. While this can be any team member, we recommend that it be a Haas major on your team, since Haas majors are more familiar with using CampusGroups.
The Haas Undergraduate Program and Goldman Sachs are proud to present the Fourtneenth Annual Investment Banking Case Competition. Each year this event showcases one of Goldman Sachs' recent high profile transactions to give interested students an opportunity to demonstrate and further develop their knowledge and skill base. This competition is ideal for students considering a career in investment banking, corporate finance, commercial banking, merchant banking, venture capital, consulting, and entrepreneurship. Participating in the competition also affords students a wonderful opportunity to meet and to get to know members of the Goldman Sachs recruiting team. In addition, the final round participants will be eligible to be selected for the Spring 2012 Haas external case competition team(s).
Undergraduate students are encouraged to form teams of four, although a team may compete with a minimum of three individuals. To replicate the work environments that you will enter upon graduation, there must be at least one team member who is a Haas major and one team member who is not a Haas major. Simultaneous degree students majoring in business and another major will be considered a Haas major.
Cases will be available on September 20th here and students will be notified on case distribution via the investmentbankingcasecomp@haas.berkeley.edu alias.
All participants must subscribe themselves to this e-mail alias/list by going here.
If you need assistance with this mailing list, please contact the Haas
Computing Services Helpdesk.
A teleconference call on September 23rd has been arranged so you may ask questions regarding the case. The presentations will be due by September 27th by noon.
The review committee, comprised of Goldman Sachs professionals, will review the presentations and select three to four teams to participate in the final round. The finalists will be announced and notified by October 3rd and final presentations will be held on Thursday, October 6 from 6-9:30PM, in the Wells Fargo Room at Haas. Each of the finalist groups will make a 15-minute presentation followed by questions from a panel of judges, which will include company management, investment bankers, and faculty from the Haas School of Business. After a short recess, the winner will be announced and prizes distributed, followed by the judges' critique of the presentations and a discussion of what actually occurred, with time allotted for questions from the audience. Finalists: Your photo, video, and slide deck may be used on the Haas Undergraduate Program websites and for training purposes.
Case Submission Process
1. Each team will present their conclusions through a written presentation (landscape format), similar to the discussion materials often used in investment banking, consulting and corporate board meetings (PowerPoint slides). Your presentation can be a maximum of 10 pages in length. You can have additional pages that include tables and exhibits (in addition to the 10 pages mentioned). The tables and exhibits will be a critical component of the final product as your conclusions will be based on this work.
2. Your PowerPoint presentation should be converted to a PDF document.
3. E-mail your PDF presentation file to casesubmission@lists.haas.berkeley.edu and include the team members' last names in the subject line of your message.
4. Your message size cannot exceed 5 MB
5. The e-mail with your presentation attached is due by September 27th by noon.
Last updated on 8/29/2011
Winning Teams From Previous E-Business Case
Competitions
Spring 2011
Arting Chang
Jing-Jing Li
Michale McMahon
Camille Yan
Spring 2010
Prateek Madapurmath
Kunal Modi
Sahil Takiar
Prashanth Vijay
Spring 2009
Kevin Huynh
Jenny Zhou
Andrew Wang
Patrick Pan
Spring 2008
Sagar Gupta
Wei Li
Sean Huang
Jimmy Shi
Spring 2007
Alexandra Stathopoulos
Sagar Patel
Ryan Panchadsaram
Devang Bhuva
Spring 2006
Wilson Chang
Gregory Huang
Amy Liang
Anna Linetskaya
Spring 2005
Michael Heinrich
Jessica Shu
Victor Tong
Tony Zhang
Spring 2004
Raymond Ma
Sumaya Kazi
Maneka Sinha
Kaushal Sanghavi
Spring 2003
Mahta Eghbali
Zubair Jandali
Jasvinder Khaira
Vikram Suresh
Spring 2002
Alon Brashinsky
Ananda Ghosh
Jesse Chen
Larry Tung
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Spring 2001
David Chan
Amyn Saleh
Christine Cho
Lisa Mou
Spring 2000
Alexandre Jost
Alex Kaplenko
Teresa Kingston-Bonney
Christopher Zobrist
Winning Teams From Previous Investment Banking Case Competitions
Fall 2011 Winners
From left to right:
Kevin L. Lee, Linda L. Xu, Anna M. Li, Alkey H. Pandya
Fall 2010 Winners
Hong Ye Mai, Michael Miao, Louis Kao, Amy Young
Fall 2009 Winners
Wynn Chyou
Jordan Xu
Yi Yu
Yew Khor
Fall 2008 Winners
Tina Bao
Sebastian Cua
Brian Kim
Simon Shen
Fall 2007 Winners
Andrew Huang
Aneesh Kadakia
Mukund Ramachandran
Sayshu Medicherla
Fall 2006 Winners
Fred Kang
Henry Liu
Chris Peterson
Sam Shaih
Fall 2005 Winners
Arjun Arora
Romish Badani
Devang Bhuva
Sammy Obeid
Fall 2004
Rikin Vasani
Suken Vakil
Gennie Chen
Eugene Pyatigorsky
Fall 2003
John Yoon
Yoon Um
Dan Lee
Amy Lee
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Fall 2002
Tedy Gunawan
Bruce Hao
Magnus Hybinette
Caroline Wang
Fall 2001
Joseph Spector
Annabelle Louie
Peter Lee
Tina Tong
Fall 2000
Lilia Shtarkman
Mark Khavkin
Sergei Geler
Alek Vernitsky
Fall 1999
Ryan Bonnell
Kathryn Cicoletti
Aaron Schweifler
Kyle Nichols
Fall 1998
Tania Kapoor
George Chen
Jeffrey Poon
Clif Marriott
