Case and Business Plan Competitions

MBA student teams demonstrate strategic thinking, use critical analysis skills, and deliver dynamic presentations in competitions across the country and internationally.

Exemplifying Whitman’s commitment to providing students with real-life, hands-on experiences, the Whitman School launched its first CASE Competition in 2006; open to all Whitman MBA/MS graduate and senior undergraduate students. The prize money totaled $5,000.

Additionally, the Whitman School is home to the renowned Panasci Business Plan Competition, which annually awards $40,000 in prize money.  The Panasci Competition showcases individual and group student business plans and innovative ideas. The competition spans four months, during which students have the opportunity to work with Whitman faculty in the Business Plan Laboratory each week. In early April, semi-finalists are selected to present their business plans to a distinguished panel of judges.

Whitman students have recently competed in:

• The National University of Singapore’s Global MBA Challenge
• The KeyBank/Fisher College of Business MBA Minority Case Competition
• The Finance Case Competition for MBA students at the University of Rochester's Simon Graduate School of Busines

Recent Successes:

• Four MBA students took home first prize for hybrid portfolio in the University of Dayton's global student investment competition held March 27-29, 2008. The competition, called Redefining Investment Strategy Education (RISE), attracted more than 2,000 students and faculty from 257 colleges and universities from 69 countries.