AEMBA Corporate Social Responsibility Case Competition HEC Montréal 2023-2024
Submission deadline: November 1, 2023 (23:59 EDT)
The HEC Montréal MBA Student Association (AEMBA, Association des Étudiants MBA des Hautes Études Commerciales inc.), in collaboration with the HEC Montréal MBA program, Pôle IDEOS (Centre d'impact social) and the Revue Internationale de Cas en Gestion (RICG), is organizing a bilingual case-writing competition. This case-writing competition is open to all authors (including authors from outside HEC as well as non-academic authors) whose cases meet the criteria described below.
The winning case from this competition will be used for the 15th edition of the AEMBA Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Challenge to be held in 2024. In this case study competition, MBA students from universities around the world are invited to reflect on and discuss complex issues related to corporate social and environmental responsibility.
A prize of $4,000 Canadian dollars will be awarded to the winning case. The prize will be awarded at the CSR Challenge closing ceremony. If used as part of the AEMBA CSR Challenge 2024, the runner-up case will also receive $2,000 CAD. The winning case can also be submitted directly to ICGR for peer review. If selected, additional conditions will apply (for example, including a full pedagogical note).
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Cases that meet the following criteria are eligible for the case-writing competition.
Cases must not have been previously used in a case competition, published by a case center, published in a journal or made available to the public.
Beyond simply describing an organization, the case must present a specific managerial challenge.
Whatever the organization, whatever its size, business sector or geographical region, the managerial challenge of the case must be linked to social and environmental responsibility.
Cases may be submitted by any author or group of authors (internal or external to HEC Montréal).
Cases must be written in English or French.
Cases must present a real situation (based on public data, undisguised non-public data, or disguised non-public data). Fictitious cases are not admissible. Cases must be presented with the authorization of the company presented in the case, or with an indication that only public information was used to develop the case[1].
Cases should have a maximum of 12 pages of text.
By submitting a case, authors authorize that - if their case wins this case-writing competition - it may be used in the CSR 2024 competition (i.e. distributed to participants and judges).
HOW TO SUBMIT
Please submit the following 3 documents to csr@hecaemba.org :
Your original case in .doc or .docx format
Your original case in .pdf.
A short covering letter confirming that your case meets each of the 8 criteria above.
EVALUATION
All submissions meeting the above criteria will be evaluated by a panel of judges. The jury will include representatives from RICG, Pôle IDEOS, MBA alumni, and experts working in the industry. The jury will evaluate the cases according to the following criteria:
The case presents a current CSR and/or environmental sustainability challenge that will be relevant to an international audience
The case will provide an interesting learning experience for participants
The case presents a clear question to be answered or a problem to be solved
The case contains sufficient information to solve the stated question/problem
The case uses quality data throughout the process
The case is well written, clearly structured and free of errors.
What do you see as the main strengths and limitations of this case study? And do you think this case should be used as part of the CSR Challenge?
All decisions made by the selection committee are final.
IMPORTANT DATES
November 1, 2023 (23:59 EDT): Deadline for case submissions.
November - December 2023: Selection of cases by the jury.
December 2023 - February 2024: In collaboration with the authors, the selected case will be edited and translated as necessary 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 the competition judges that should include a summary of the case, tips for solving the case, and general examples of potential solutions.
February 2023: The selected case will be used as part of the CSR Challenge. The case writing prize will be announced at the CSR Challenge closing ceremony. The winning case(s) will be returned to the authors at the close of the CSR Challenge HEC 2024.
Note: The selected cases cannot be announced before the competition, as the cases used cannot be known in advance by the teams taking part in the CSR Challenge.
Submission deadline: November 1, 2023 (23:59 EDT)
Thank you for your interest! If you have any questions, please contact csr@hecaemba.org
The CSR challenge in action
