ZAPOPAN, Jalisco; November 1, 2022.- The Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara hosted the second Business and Management Case Competition (BMCC), organized by the Business School, in an event that brought together renowned national and international universities.
Business and Management Case Competition
The Business and Management Case Competition is a competition in the case method where students take the role of consultants, working on a case of a real company and have to generate a proposed solution.
It should be noted that in Mexico and Latin America, Universidad Panamericana campus Guadalajara is the only university in Mexico and Latin America that carries out this competition, this being the second edition.
A total of 12 universities participated, including: the University of Washington, from the United States; the Chinese University of Hong Kong, from China; HEC University of Montreal, from Canada; and IE Business School, from Spain. Each university was attended by 4 students.
In addition, there were 48 judges, who helped to score and provide feedback on the solution proposals of each group of competing students from the 12 universities.
Winners of the Second Edition
1st place: Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai (Romania)
2nd place: HEC Montreal (Canada)
3rd place: University of British Columbia (Canada)
The BMCC managed to create a combination within the professional and academic theme with cultural enrichment, since, on the first day, during the morning the competitors presented their exhibitions and in the afternoon they were taken to Tlaquepaque; on the second day, they worked on a Kidzania case, and in the afternoon they were taken to Kidzania; on the third day they were taken to visit Tequila; on the fourth day, the students worked on a 24-hour case; on the fifth day were the final presentations of the case and in the evening they closed with a gala dinner at the Hospicio Cabañas.
Melody, a student from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, expressed that "I loved this competition because I had the week to visit different places, such as Tlaquepaque and Tequila, where we were able to taste tequila and walk through the markets."
Participating universities
- Universidad Panamericana campus Guadalajara, Mexico
- Universidad Panamericana Mexico City, Mexico
- Simon Fraser University, Canada
- HEC Montréal, Canada
- University of Vermont, Grossman School of Business, USA
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- University of Washington, United States
- San Francisco de Quito University, Ecuador
- Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Romania
- Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
- University of British Columbia, Canada
- IE Business School, Spain
"For Universidad Panamericana it represents an international positioning, an exposure of our university and our culture.We were able to set the bar very high," said Ana Cristina González de Alba, coordinator of the School of Economics and Business Administration at Universidad Panamericana campus Guadalajara.
Congratulations to all the teams for their distinguished work in solving the cases. The Universidad Panamericana campus Guadalajara recognizes the quality of the teams' proposals and will continue its efforts to internationalize the university community through activities of this nature.
