Why Participate in the Associate competition
daniela de leon
This case competition is one of the most exciting events you are given the opportunity to participate in as a student in the College of Business and Economics. For this very reason, it is time to start preparing to participate in next year’s competition. Do you think you have what it takes to be the next Associate?
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The Associate is a competition held in the spring. Eight graduating seniors participate in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity where they get to apply their business knowledge to weekly cases presented by local businesses. Every Tuesday, the two teams are presented with a case from a business and are then given the opportunity to present their solution the following Tuesday. One candidate is let go every Tuesday until there are four candidates left. These candidates report to a series of round-robin interviews with business executives and two candidates are chosen from the interviews. The top two finalists are presented with a final case and then move to the final boardroom session where they battle it off to become “The Associate”.
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