The Johns Hopkins Graduate Consulting Club
2015 Mini Case Competition
Friday, November 13th, 2015
Information Session
Oct 19 6-7 pm @ Hackerman B17 (Homewood)
Oct 21 6-7 pm @ 1830 Bldg 2-108 (Medical Campus)
Agenda
1. Overview of the competition
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General rules
Format and schedule
Registration info
Prizes and sponsors
2. Sample case
3. Q&A
General Rules
• Open to all Johns Hopkins undergraduate, graduate
and medical students, post-doctoral fellows, medical
residents and staff.
• Team size: 2-4 members
• Focus: develop strategic recommendations for a
specific challenge faced by a client
• Duration: 3 hours to research and develop
recommendations and put together presentation
General Rules (cont.)
• 2 rounds of judging:
• 1st round – 5 finalists selected from their
respective group (20 total teams, 4 teams
per group)
• 2nd round – Finalists will give their final
presentation and judged by a panel of
management consultants
Format & Schedule
How To Apply
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 28th at 11:59 PM EST
• Submit single-paged resumes of all team members (in one PDF file)
to the following email address: contact.jhgcc@gmail.com; emails
should be titled: "2015 JHBCC Mini-CC Registration: (Insert Team
Name)”
• Note that your registration will be considered incomplete if you do
not submit your resumes by the registration deadline.
Format & Schedule
The Day of the Competition
8:45-9:15 AM
Case introduction + Q&A
9:30-12:30 PM
Case solving
(You need to find your own workplace!)
1-2:50 PM
First round presentations
2:50-3:50 PM
Judges select finalists
4:30-6 PM
Final round presentations (open to public)
6-7 PM
Happy hour!!
Registration Information
• Register through our online form (can be found in JHGCC newsletter and
website)
o Remember to submit resumes to contact.jhgcc@gmail.com
• Posted on JHBCC’s Google Groups and Facebook page
http://jhbcc.weebly.com/2015-jhbcc-mini-case-competition.html
https://www.facebook.com/groups/871916366160341/
• Team Requirements:
• Must consist of 2-4 members
• All members must be current students, trainees, employees at Hopkins.
• One member serves as the team leader, registers for the whole team, and
will receive notifications via email
• Registration deadline: October 28th , Wednesday, at 11:59 PM EST
Prizes
1. 1st Place:
$800
2. 2nd Place:
$400
3. 3rd Place:
$200
Sponsors
Judging Panel
Judging Criteria
• Structure
• Evident structure and logical framework for analysis
• Comprehensive issues, problems and their interrelationships
• Analysis
• Rigorous data gathering and interpretation
• Use of appropriate theory, principles and models
• Recommendation
• Adequately addresses problem
• Suitably justified
• Demonstrates creative, original thinking
• Presentation
• Well planned, logically organized and presented
Case-Solving Process
• Understand the problem
• Develop structure (plan of action)
• What are the major questions you need to answer to make a
recommendation?
• Outline major areas as well as specific pieces of analysis
• Analysis
• Conduct research (product comparison, company financials,
market reports, etc.), cite your sources (footnotes, references,
appendices)
• Analyze data, calculations/assumptions as needed
• Make charts, figures, tables, etc.; both quantitative and
qualitative
Case-Solving Process
• Recommendation
• Develop recommendation based on analysis, ideally show
creativity
• Directly addresses the question(s)
• Back up with specifics (includes numbers where applicable)
• Presentation
• 10 min presentation + 5 min Q&A/feedback
• ~10 slides + appendix slides
• Good looking slides make a difference!
Remember: you only get 3 hrs!!
How you can prepare ahead of time
• Look through sample case competition
presentations, e.g.,
• Prepare a presentation slide template
• Agree on general division of labor among
teammates ahead of time
• Think about general analyses you can do or
where you can look for data
Sample Case: Anheuser-Busch InBev
Anheuser-Busch InBev is a Belgian-Brazilian multinational beverage and
brewing company headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. As the world's largest
brewer Anheuseur-Busch InBev's portfolio includes global brands like
Budweiser, Beck's and Brahma, smaller multi-country brands like Leffe and
Hoegaarden,
and
regional
brands
such
as
Bud
Light.
Anheuser-Busch InBev is thinking about acquiring Grupo Modelo, Mexico's
leading brewer and owner of the global Corona brand.
The CEO has hired you to do an analysis of the feasibility of this acquisition. He
would like to know whether it is a good idea to do this acquisition, and if so, at
what price should he be making the bid?
Sample Case: Analysis Structure
Is it feasible?
Grupo Modelo
willing?
AB Resources
Should A-B InBev
acquire Grupo
Modelo?
Revenue/Costs
Advantages
(Financial/Non-Financial)
Assets/Liabilities
Synergies
Risks
Cannibalization
Exit strategy
If it’s a good idea, what price? If
not, what are the alternatives?
Questions?.....
We look forward to seeing you at the
competition!