Case Competition Live
This Sunday, the CBS Case Competition 2006 started. I am in the organising committee and have been writing the case for the past half year, so it was of course a great relief to finally get everything kicked off. This week is tough—as if the weeks up to this one had not been. Sleeping hours is down to 2-3 hours per night, but it is fun, and we’re very happy to host teams from the entire world in our competition. Read more about the competition at our website, where you can also get the latest news all the time.
Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday included a number of social and networking activities for the participants in the competition. We invited them to Kronborg, salsa dancing, welcome dinner at the Carlsberg museum—and much more. Wednesday morning, my co-writer Thor and I revealed the case and the case company—Danfoss, who we’ve been working together with in order to create a real life, real time case for the participants. You can watch a short video interview with us here.
Right now it is 2am Thursday, and I am standing by in case any questions arise, when the participants are solving the case. They have to hand in their final presentation Thursday evening. Friday, the participants will present their recommendations to a jury, including, among others, three members from the case company, the CEO of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange, and the Chairman of LEGO. The finals will be streamed live over webcast at live.casecompetition.com.
Friday evening, we host an award banquet at the National Museum in Copenhagen.
March 13th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Nice case! It looks so interesting; I wish I could have made it to see all the finals. Did you pick Danfoss because you are from Sønderjylland?
/LMH
March 13th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Lise,
You can watch the finals at http://www.casecompetition.com if you’re still interested.
No–we didn’t pick Danfoss because of our common origin :-)–we picked it because we found the company to be a very good partner, who was willing to work together with us for a period of 8 months. It took a lot of effort on our part as well as theirs, so it was more a match of interests than anything else that led to our working together.
Bjorn
March 14th, 2006 at 10:00 am
I already watched the finals… very interesting!
I also got a copy of the case, I’m very impressed. Perhaps I’ll join when I’m older and wiser and further into my programme.
/LMH
April 30th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
[...] China Trip, Day Six—April 11: This was yet another packed day, but it proved to be very interesting. As the previous day, we headed up to Tianjin outside Beijing to visit Danish industrial giant Danfoss’s main China facilities. Frequent readers of my blog will remember that Danfoss was the case company of the CBS Case Competition 2006, which gives it a special place in my heart. And it was amazing to travel thousands of kilometres across the globe to see that the buildings Danfoss has in Beijing, look just like the ones in Denmark. On the other hand, and equally inspiring, was how the structure of the organisation had been adapted to Chinese norms. It is big as well as little things, such as how the canteen is and how employees are appreciated, that meet the eye. [...]