What Case Competitions Are All About

Case competitions simulate business decision-making under time pressure. You are given an ambiguous problem and judged on how well you structure, analyze, and defend your recommendation.

What a case usually includes

• business context
• target outcome
• constraints (budget, timeline, risk)
• limited data

What judges actually score

• problem framing
• quality of analysis
• recommendation logic
• feasibility and implementation
• communication under Q&A pressure

Why students in ANZ use case comps

• stronger internship and grad role stories
• practical consulting and banking skill development
• signal to recruiters that you can handle ambiguity

Beginner mistake to avoid

Do not start with solutions. Start with diagnosis and first-principles breakdown of the problem.

Next move

For your next case, spend the first 20 percent of time framing the problem before creating any slides.