From January 6 to 11 2013, the Telfer School of Management of the University of Ottawa will join 35 schools from around the world in Montreal, Canada at the John Molson MBA International Case Competition. The competition, the oldest and largest of its kind in the world.

This year’s event will have the greatest number of international competitors in the competition’s history. In addition to the seven American and twelve Canadian universities participating, will be seventeen International schools from fourteen countries and five continents. Australia, Egypt and South Africa will be represented for the first time.

The Telfer School of Management will be sending their four best case cracking MBA candidates (Alex Bota, Tina Huang, Yi Liu and John Hastings) who will, over six days, tackle seven business case studies, including one “live” case study. The live case will see a surprise company present a problem they are currently facing to the teams, who will then present their solutions. The teams will compete to take home the Concordia Cup and up to $10,000 in prize money.