The National Investment Banking Competition is focused on providing a realistic, hands-on experience for students interested in pursuing careers in finance and investment banking.  Since 2007, the top undergraduate and MBA students from across North America have participated in NIBC and learned skills that are crucial to success in the finance industry.

Over the past 5 years, NIBC has grown to become a unique, prestigious and important event for students trying to gain relevant, technical experience. Last year, 156 teams from 39 universities across North America, such as Richard Ivey, The University of Toronto, Wharton, Chicago Booth, and UBC competed for a prize pool of $10,000.

National Investment Banking Competition 2014 Key Information:

–   The deadline to register a team is October 4th, 2013, after which the Preliminary Case will be disseminated
–   Teams can either be three or four members and can register at NIBC.ca
–   Refer to the Competition Fact Sheet and Competition Prospectus for more information.
–   $15,000 prize pool awarded to winning teams
–   Separate MBA and undergraduate competition divisions

About the Competition:

The Competition consists of a Preliminary Round and a Final Round, with cases prepared by investment banking professionals to closely reflect the work of analysts and associates at investment banks. The top 15 MBA teams and top 25 undergraduate teams are chosen from the Preliminary Round to compete in the Final Round for a $15,000 prize pool.

NIBC’s objective in designing the case and competition process is to provide students with an authentic investment banking experience. The Organizing Team works closely with the Case Committee to create a competition that focuses on real-life transactions involving publicly listed companies. Participation in NIBC will provide hands-on experience and insight into the daily responsibilities of both junior and senior investment bankers. These responsibilities include analysis of financial data, running scenarios in financial models, evaluating structural alternatives against client parameters, creating pitch books, and presenting to senior management. The Competition culminates in a live pitch by finalist teams to Managing Directors of leading North American investment banks.

For students who have registered for next week’s case competition.

Rules for the challenge

1. The case will be released on Friday, April 26
2. You will be in a cross-institutional team that involves students from Sauder and CBS – the teams will be announced at 12pm on 30 April
3. You are allowed to acquire additional material and perspectives that already exist on the web.
4. You are not allowed to communicate with anyone outside of the Case Team.
5. The challenge will run in two stages – Prelims and finals.
6.   ALL members of the team must participate in the oral presentation.

Assessment guidelines

You will be assessed on the following criteria:

1.      Clear, concise communication of ideas, information and conclusions
2.      Logical development and coherent structure
3.      Effective use of voice and non-verbal communication
4.      Visual aids / technology well-prepared, clear and used effectively
5.      Professional communication for a general management audience and context

12.00 pm – 12.30 pm – Lunch & teams released.

12.30 pm – 3.00 pm – Teams work in breakout rooms to prepare for the case

Prelims – 3:00 to 4:30pm – Big 4 conference center (Penthouse), Sauder School of Business

• Each team will present their recommendations to a panel of judges (please see the schedule below).
• Each team will have no more than 10 minutes to present their recommendations with an additional 5 minutes for Q&A.

Finals – 4:45 to 5:45pm  — HA 491, Sauder School of Business

Three finalists will be invited to present their recommendations to an audience (including a judging panel and fellow classmates).

• Each team will have no more than 10 minutes to present their recommendations with an additional 8 minutes for Q&A.
• You will use the same presentation materials from the prelims

Schedule for Prelims, Finals

HA 967                  HA 968                  HA 969

3:00-3:20pm                       Team 1                 Team 2                 Team 3

3:25-3:45pm                       Team 4                 Team 5                 Team 6

3:50-4:10pm                       Team 7                 Team 8                 Team 9

4:15-4:25pm                       Team 10               Team 11               Team 12

4:30-4:45pm                       Judges deliberate to choose 3 finalists

4:45-5:05pm                       Finalist 1

5:10-5:30pm                       Finalist 2

5:35-5:55pm                       Finalist 3

5:30pm –                              Winning Team announced

*Teams to be announced at noon on April 30.

Judging panel

Brian Bemmels, Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Academic Programs, Sauder School of Business

Murali Chandrashekaran, Professor and Associate Dean, Professional Graduate Programs, Sauder School of Business

Deven Davé, Executive Director, W. Maurice Young Center for Entrepreneuship and Venture Capital Center

Amit Kumar, Associate at Sherpa Asset Management, and UBC alum

Tasneem Mantri, Senior Financial Analyst, McKesson Corporation, and UBC alum

Katriona MacDonald, Associate Dean, Strategic Planning and International Relations

Moura Quayle, Professor and Director of d-studio, Sauder School of Business

Tim Silk, Professor, Sauder School of Business

Ryan Wilson, Pilot and UBC alum

A few weeks from now 35 Master’s students (in Supply Chain Management) from the Copenhagen business school will be visiting Vancouver and The Sauder School of Business.  During their visit, we will be hosting a case competition that will include teams of CBS students and Sauder Graduate students.

The case competition will kick off with a lunch on April 30, Tuesday, at 12 noon at the HA Penthouse (9^th floor of Henry Angus Building). It will be a great chance to meet and get to know the CBS students. For those of you who have alright signed up for this event, please note that the parameter of the visit have changed and that the event will no longer be lunch only.  If you have expressed interest with both the lunch & case competition, we have noted your original RSVP.

The winning team will receive $500 in cash!

The schedule is as follows:

Tuesday April 23: Case & Case teams will be released. Student teams have one week to review the case and prepare within their teams

Tuesday April 30:

•  Noon – 3.00 pm – Lunch & Case Competition Prep with your groups

•  3.00 pm – 4.30 pm – Preliminary Round — Each team presents for 15 minutes to a panel of Faculty & Industry judges.

• 4.45 pm – 5.45 pm – Final Round — three finalists present to the panel and to the entire cohort

If you are interested in both the lunch and case competition, please RSVP no later than Friday, April 19 at noon.

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Lexis Nexis, a very large provider of business, news and legal information is sponsoring a student contest. The winning student will receive an internship in the US.

LexisNexis Academic in collaboration with KPMG’s Innovation team will begin a Big Data crowdsourcing project. A banner with the title “change the future of information” was placed on the front page of Academic on November 8th. The first five hundred students to sign up via the banner will be eligible to participate. These students will gain entrance to the crowd-sourcing platform created by Chaordix. The challenge to the crowd participants will be:

Assume you have 1) 30,000 media and news sources, some with an archive of up to 30 years; 2) information and financials about millions of companies globally; 3) a great web search and spidering technology in many languages; and 4) a super computer to analyze and mine that “big data” – What would you do with it? What business would you create? What technological innovations would you invent?

Crowd participation will last four weeks. Shortly after that time, LexisNexis and KPMG will review the crowd’s ideas and determine a winner. The best over-all student idea will win an internship with the Innovation Department at LexisNexis.

To go to Lexis Nexis Academic, visit http://resources.library.ubc.ca/660 (Use a browser other than IE).

Best regards,
Janice M. Wallace, B.A., M.A., M.S.Lib.
Head, David Lam Management Research Library
Canaccord Learning Commons
Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

What is the Competition?

In this competition, university teams of four to six students take over the management of a simulated manufacturing company competing directly against 4-5 other firms run by competitor teams from other universities. Teams in the competition are divided into “worlds” of about four to six companies with undergraduate teams and MBA teams having their own worlds. Each team assumes responsibility for key strategic and operational decisions in marketing, finance, and operations. Team members have the experience of running their own company as they strive to outperform their rivals.

Registration: The deadline for registration is November 30, 2012.

Questions? Contact Annette Lohman, Ph.D., ICBSC Administrative Director, at alohman@csulb.edu

For more information visit http://www.icbsc.org

National Investment Banking Competition 2013 Key Information:

–   Teams can either be three or four members and can register at NIBC.ca
–   $10,000 prize pool awarded to winning teams
–   Separate MBA and undergraduate competition divisions
–   Over 23 universities across North America will be participating
–   The deadline to register a team is October 12th, 2012, after which the Preliminary Case will be disseminated

About the Competition:

The Competition consists of a Preliminary Round and a Final Round, with cases prepared by investment banking professionals to closely reflect the work of analysts and associates at investment banks. The top ten MBA teams and top fifteen undergraduate teams are chosen from the Preliminary Round to compete in the Final Round for a $10,000 prize pool. The Organizing Team has worked closely with our Industry Sponsors and Board of Advisors to create a competition that reflects high-quality, potential real life transactions of publicly traded companies.

Participating in the Preliminary and Final Rounds of the Competition will give students hands-on experience and insight into the actual work that investment bankers accomplish when executing transactions, such as financial modeling, evaluating scenarios against client parameters, and creating pitch-books. The Competition culminates with a live pitch to Senior Managing Directors of leading Canadian investment banks.

VANCOUVER+Acumen Fund 3rd Annual Case Challenge: Investing for Impact in the Developing World

Registration for the 3rd Annual VANCOUVER+Acumen Fund Case Challenge is NOW OPEN!

Visit this page to register your team of three: http://investingforimpact-mba.eventbrite.ca/

Full teams must register and pay together– spots are limited!

Visit our website for updates: http://vancouver.plusacumen.org/case-competition/

If you have any questions, please contact the Vancouver for Acumen Fund Education & Knowledge Team at van4acumen.edu@gmail.com

The competition provides students and recent alumni of U.S. and foreign schools the unique opportunity to access substantial funding and support to implement their business ideas in New York City.

The early deadline for business summaries is October 28^th.  The final deadline is November 9^th.

Teams of 2-5 participants (1^st and 2^nd year Part-time MBA , Full-time MBA and MM-ECM’s) to are invited to submit business plans for ideas that may be commercially viable in New York City. Click through this link to register your team.

Six teams of finalists will win a five-day, all-expenses-paid trip to New York City during the week of March 11^th 2013 to participate in the final round of the Competition, which will be hosted at Columbia University.

More information, as well as the deadline and key dates regarding the Competition can be found on the NYCEDC website.

This year’s competition will be held on November 31st, 2012 and December 1st, 2012 at Schulich School of Business, Toronto, Canada. As this year marks the launch of Schulich School of Business MBA’s new mining specialization, the theme of the competition will be mining companies and their surrounding communities.

Teams of first, second year Full-time/Part-time MBA’s are invited to apply before the November 1st, 2012 application deadline. Registration is now open.

Based on the essays submitted, 25 teams will be invited to present in front of our guest judges from top industry companies during our 2 days event.

For more information, please visit our website at www.schulichinternationalcasecompetition.com or contact us at sicc@schulich.yorku.ca

As the MBA Games is just around the corner and set to take place on Jan 4-6 2013, it would be beneficial to elect our MBA Games Representatives as soon as possible.

Please complete the following elections survey and select two MBA Games Representatives from the list of nominees.  This online survey will be open until 4:30 PM on Tuesday, September 25th.

Please click here.

Note: Please click on the blue “Login” button when the new window pops up; you will need to log in with your CWL to get to the survey;

If you have any questions please email askmba@sauder.ubc.ca.