For a long time, business schools, particularly in the US, have arranged case competitions, where teams were to solve a business case within a period of time. The most common format is teams of four people solving a business case in 24 hours, whereafter they are to present their findings to a panel of judges followed by Q&A.

It was such a case competition I attended in Los Angeles in February this year (posts: NYC - CPH - LA, Sky Surfing, and Los Angeles Pics), which is probably the largest international case competition if you measure the number of teams participating.

At my school, the Copenhagen Business School (CBS), we also have this kind of competition. The CBS Case Competition is arranged solely by students in an organizing committee composed of circa 25 students (the number varies a little from year to year). As the case writer (the case for the CBS Case Competition is always written especially for the competition — real life, real time, which is quite unique in the world), I am in this organizing committee.

From our kick-off weekend, here is the picture of almost the entire organizing committee (except me, behind the camera, and a couple who couldn’t make it to the weekend).

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