Disciplines

Twenty-four hours on a problem that touches every part of a business at once: finance, marketing, strategy, accounting, human resources, operations and international trade. The organizing committee feeds teams new information through the first half of the clock, and it can be enough to send a strategy back to the start.

The whole accounting function, from technique and performance measurement through financial advisory, turnaround work, audit, and the analysis of cash flows or projects. Technical rigour is the floor; the case is decided on professional judgment.

Also at JDC Central

Parliamentary debate modelled on the House of Commons. Argue the side you are given, and hold it.

Also at JDC Central

The strategic role of technology in how a business decides and where it creates value. A mandate can land on data management, artificial intelligence, process optimization, a CRM or ERP rollout, cybersecurity or the customer experience, and the recommendation has to show what the technology actually does for the organization.

Also at JDC Central

Built like Shark Tank and its Quebec version, Dans l'œil du dragon. Pitch first to win a fictional budget, then come back with a full implementation plan and convince angel investors that a business model built on limited resources is worth backing.

Also at JDC Central

The mandate can land anywhere in finance: corporate valuation and capital structure, portfolio and derivatives work, or personal planning and retirement. Sustainable finance and fintech come up as well, and the partner is usually a bank, an insurer, a wealth manager or a real estate firm.

Also at JDC Central

Training, development, engagement and recruitment, plus the harder situations: resistance to a new system, a culture that is not working, a restructuring, an org chart to redraw. Remote work, diversity and inclusion and what newer workers expect all shape the answer, which has to hold up for franchises, unions, employers and employees at once.

Also at JDC Central

Taking a company abroad, whether it has never left the local market or already operates in several. Pick the target market, choose the strategy and the distribution channels, and run a supply chain across partners, while the product life cycle, cultural differences and legal or geopolitical barriers all push back.

Also at JDC Central

Market research, segmentation, targeting and the mix that follows. The growth question underneath can be penetration, a new product, a new market or diversification, and the case may turn on a product launch or an employer brand, positioned for a domestic or an international audience.

Also at JDC Central

Physical and information flows, and every partner in the supply chain. Inventory, production analysis, transport, resource allocation and cost management are the usual ground, with automation, supply chain resilience and the environmental footprint of logistics increasingly on top of it.

Scored across the whole weekend on three things: mutual support, camaraderie and creativity.

Also at JDC Central · Management Symposium · Happening Marketing

Delegation-wide activities built around socializing and mutual support between schools.

Also at JDC Central · Happening Marketing

The athletic side of the delegation, with tournament play running alongside the academic and social components.

Also at JDC Central · Management Symposium · Financial Open · Happening Marketing

A full read of an organization, department by department, and advice its manager could actually act on. The mandate might be a disruptive business model, new technology to absorb, a repositioning, or a bold call worth defending, with accounting, finance, logistics, HR and marketing all in play.

Also at JDC Central

The content stays secret until the case is handed out, so you need to be comfortable across several branches of management.

Also at Management Symposium

A company's social, economic and environmental responsibilities, from launching a project to handling an ethical situation where every stakeholder counts. Recommendations are expected to line up with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and still respect what the organization can afford, balancing people, planet and profit.

Tax in practice: personal and corporate income tax, capital gains, attribution rules, and the treatment of death or gifts. The structure behind the question varies, from corporations and trusts to partnerships and sole proprietorships.

The whole accounting function, from technique and performance measurement through financial advisory, turnaround work, audit, and the analysis of cash flows or projects. Technical rigour is the floor; the case is decided on professional judgment.

Also at Jeux du Commerce

Parliamentary debate modelled on the House of Commons. Argue the side you are given, and hold it.

Also at Jeux du Commerce

The strategic role of technology in how a business decides and where it creates value. A mandate can land on data management, artificial intelligence, process optimization, a CRM or ERP rollout, cybersecurity or the customer experience, and the recommendation has to show what the technology actually does for the organization.

Also at Jeux du Commerce

Built like Shark Tank and its Quebec version, Dans l'œil du dragon. Pitch first to win a fictional budget, then come back with a full implementation plan and convince angel investors that a business model built on limited resources is worth backing.

Also at Jeux du Commerce

The mandate can land anywhere in finance: corporate valuation and capital structure, portfolio and derivatives work, or personal planning and retirement. Sustainable finance and fintech come up as well, and the partner is usually a bank, an insurer, a wealth manager or a real estate firm.

Also at Jeux du Commerce

Training, development, engagement and recruitment, plus the harder situations: resistance to a new system, a culture that is not working, a restructuring, an org chart to redraw. Remote work, diversity and inclusion and what newer workers expect all shape the answer, which has to hold up for franchises, unions, employers and employees at once.

Also at Jeux du Commerce

Taking a company abroad, whether it has never left the local market or already operates in several. Pick the target market, choose the strategy and the distribution channels, and run a supply chain across partners, while the product life cycle, cultural differences and legal or geopolitical barriers all push back.

Also at Jeux du Commerce

Market research, segmentation, targeting and the mix that follows. The growth question underneath can be penetration, a new product, a new market or diversification, and the case may turn on a product launch or an employer brand, positioned for a domestic or an international audience.

Also at Jeux du Commerce

Scored across the whole weekend on three things: mutual support, camaraderie and creativity.

Also at Jeux du Commerce · Management Symposium · Happening Marketing

Delegation-wide activities built around socializing and mutual support between schools.

Also at Jeux du Commerce · Happening Marketing

The athletic side of the delegation, with tournament play running alongside the academic and social components.

Also at Jeux du Commerce · Management Symposium · Financial Open · Happening Marketing

A full read of an organization, department by department, and advice its manager could actually act on. The mandate might be a disruptive business model, new technology to absorb, a repositioning, or a bold call worth defending, with accounting, finance, logistics, HR and marketing all in play.

Also at Jeux du Commerce

A major transformation that is not primarily technological: a restructuring, a merging of teams, a culture change, a new way of working. Build the plan that carries it, from communication, training and support through to managing resistance and the indicators that say whether it worked.

Integrating digital tools so an organization runs better. Read the current operations, find what is blocking them, then lay out an implementation plan with priorities, a timeline, resources and indicators, covering anything from automation and a CRM or ERP rollout to data management and cybersecurity.

Everything human resources covers inside a company: training, organizational development, internal engagement and recruitment. The difficulty is the room, because a solution has to hold up for franchises, unions, employers and employees at the same time.

Where a company should expand internationally, and how it should get there. Weigh the candidate countries on market size, growth, competition, regulation and risk, choose an entry mode from exporting to partnership to a subsidiary, and say what the product, the marketing and the operations have to change.

Buy, sell or merge. Judge whether the transaction is worth doing against growth targets, synergies and risk, then defend it with a valuation built on multiples, comparables and discounted cash flow, a financing structure, and a read on what integration will cost in operations, culture, talent and governance.

Scored across the whole weekend on three things: mutual support, camaraderie and creativity.

Also at Jeux du Commerce · JDC Central · Happening Marketing

A large-scale project for a company, solved overnight across twelve hours with two contingencies dropped in along the way. Objectives, deliverables, phasing, resources, budget and risk, delivered as a plan with a methodology, a governance structure and monitoring indicators.

Growing, streamlining or taking over a small or mid-sized business. Profitability, operations, process and sales are all on the table, and so is the handover itself: who takes over, who buys, how it gets financed, and whether the business survives the transfer.

The athletic side of the delegation, with tournament play running alongside the academic and social components.

Also at Jeux du Commerce · JDC Central · Financial Open · Happening Marketing

The content stays secret until the case is handed out, so you need to be comfortable across several branches of management.

Also at Jeux du Commerce

An ethics case judged against the CFA Institute's Code and Standards, where the right answer also has to be the defensible one.

Valuation, capital structure and investment decisions. What should a company fund, with what, and at what cost?

Recognition, measurement and disclosure under IFRS or ASPE. Build the treatment, then defend it to the judges.

Read a portfolio and a market well enough to defend a position: asset allocation, risk, and the conditions behind both.

Costing, budgeting and performance measurement. This is the accounting used to steer the business from the inside, not to report on it from the outside.

Build a financial plan for an individual or a household, covering budgeting, taxes, retirement, insurance and estate questions.

A timed knowledge round on the competition's field. Fast questions, with the delegation's standing on the line.

The athletic side of the delegation, with tournament play running alongside the academic and social components.

Also at Jeux du Commerce · JDC Central · Management Symposium · Happening Marketing

Trade a simulated portfolio over the competition, judged on the returns and the reasoning behind them.

Tax in practice. Personal and corporate income tax, capital gains, attribution rules, and the treatment of death or gifts.

Marketing to partners, clients, competitors and other organizations rather than to consumers. Hard to assess quantitatively but undeniably central to business, B2B rests on building positive and lasting professional relationships; the case covers the full range of activity that creates or strengthens them.

Digital tools now sit at the centre of most marketing initiatives, and this case covers a company’s growing digital presence: the web, mobile and tablet applications, search engine optimization, and consumer conversion. Digital data is at the core of the strategy.

Promotion and advertising that puts the consumer in a distinctive relationship with the brand. A contemporary form of communication built to provoke emotion and reaction, with originality at the centre of the strategy. It is used to build or deepen brand awareness and customer relationships, and to add value to the product or service.

Marketing principles applied to the specific challenges of human resource management: attracting, engaging and retaining talent with marketing tools and techniques. Mandates range from strengthening the employer brand, to internal communication campaigns that lift employee satisfaction and engagement, to positioning the company as an employer of choice.

Launching a product or service, up to and including entry into an international market. The plan covers competitive analysis, customer segmentation, communication, pricing and distribution, plus the performance indicators that measure whether the launch worked, all built around the target market’s cultural and economic differences.

Scored across the whole weekend on three things: mutual support, camaraderie and creativity.

Also at Jeux du Commerce · JDC Central · Management Symposium

A timed test of marketing knowledge, run in short fifteen-minute rounds that reward quick thinking and teamwork. Questions cover logos, slogans and general marketing knowledge, in multiple-choice, true-or-false and long-answer formats.

An agency pitch run as a one-day, three-round competition. Teams of four build a marketing campaign and present it to a jury, competing to win the client's request for proposal on strategic thinking, creative advertising, and media buying and placement. Each agency arrives with its own identity: mission, vision, goals, logo and brand image, all developed before the competition.

Delegation-wide activities built around socializing and mutual support between schools.

Also at Jeux du Commerce · JDC Central

The athletic side of the delegation, with tournament play running alongside the academic and social components.

Also at Jeux du Commerce · JDC Central · Management Symposium · Financial Open

Concrete objectives and informed decisions, grounded in a deep analysis of the company’s environment. What comes out of it is used to play to the company’s strengths, react quickly to change, anticipate trends in the target population and raise long-term profitability: a long-term vision, with the short-term goals and tactics needed to get there.

Creative by design, and it can land on any area of marketing. Because the field is not announced in advance, the team has to be diverse enough to cover a wide range of marketing knowledge. Unlike the other cases this one is completed before the competition starts, and it may draw on the digital case from past editions.