Submission deadline: November 1st, 2023 (11:59pm EDT)
The HEC Montréal MBA Students’ Association (AEMBA, Association des Étudiants MBA des Hautes Études Commerciales inc.), in conjunction with the HEC Montréal MBA program, Pôle Ideos (Social Impact Center) and the International Journal of Case Studies in Management (IJCSM), is organizing a bilingual case writing competition. This case writing competition is open to any authors (including those external to HEC Montreal as well as non-academic authors) whose cases fit the criteria outlined below.
The winning case in this writing competition will be used in the 15th edition of the AEMBA Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Challenge to be held in March of 2024. During this case study competition, MBA students from all over the world are invited to reflect on and discuss complex issues related to corporate social and environmental responsibility.
$4,000CAD will be awarded for the winning case. The prize will be awarded at the closing ceremony of the CSR Challenge. If used in the March 2024 HEC CSR Challenge, the runner-up case will also receive $2,000CAD. The winning case can also be directly submitted to the IJCSM and go through a peer-review process. If retained, additional requirements will apply (e.g., including a fully developed teaching note).
Cases which meet the following 8 criteria are eligible for the case writing competition.
Please submit the following 3 documents to csr@hecaemba.org:
All submitted cases which meet the submission criteria will be evaluated by a panel of judges. The panel will include representatives from HEC Montreal, the IJCSM, the Pôle Ideos, MBA alumni and experts working in the industry. The panel will evaluate the submissions according to the following criteria:
All decisions made by the selection committee are final.
November 1st, 2023 (11:59pm EDT): Deadline for submitting cases with cover letter.
November – December 2023: Case selection by the jury.
December 2023 – February 2024: Working with authors, the selected case will be edited and translated as needed to prepare it for the competition. While authors are not required to submit teaching notes for the case writing competition, authors of the winning case will be encouraged to prepare a 2–3-page document for competition judges which should include a summary of the case, tips for solving the case, and general examples of potential solutions.
March 2024: Selected case(s) will be used in the CSR Challenge. The case writing prize will be announced at the closing ceremony of the CSR Challenge. Winning case(s) will be released back to authors at the closing of the 2024 HEC CSR Challenge.
Note: The case writing winners cannot be announced before the competition as the cases which are being used in the competition cannot be known in advance by teams competing in the CSR Challenge.
Submission deadline: November 1st, 2023 (11:59pm EDT)
Thank you for your interest! Please direct any questions to csr@hecaemba.org.