27 April 2017
San Sebastian Campus
Four Deusto Business School students received the award for the most creative solution at the sixth edition of this competition now being held by HEC Montreal.
The Deusto Business School representatives now competing in Montreal are Rebecca Harris (United Kingdom), Carla Córdova (Mexico), Fiamma Reali (Italy) and Javier Ruiz (Spain). The team members are students on the Master’s degree programmes in European & International Business Management and Competitiveness & Innovation.
The International Graduate Competition - IGC is a leading competition between business schools. The following schools are taking part in this edition:
- University of Florida
- EMLyon
- University of Deusto
- Chulalongkorn University
- UniSA
- RMIT
- HEC Montréal
- The University of Sheffield
The students were given a case study and had a time limit in which to solve it, which involved working under pressure.
This year, the case consisted of developing a growth and internationalisation strategy for the Ecotech cluster in Montreal.
The postgraduates had to use the knowledge they had acquired in the Master’s degree in European & International Business Management and the Master’s degree in Competitiveness & Innovation, facing a complex challenge in an international environment and stiff competition from other prestigious business schools.
The four students from the two programmes, who did not know each other before the competition, formed a competitive team that was able to work under high pressure (nearly 48 hours straight, during which they barely slept) and submitted a document based on sound analysis that contributed original ideas and was highly praised by the evaluating professors.
Congratulations to the Deusto Business School team!
