CUHK students who recently participated in a case competition in Shanghai share their feedback from the event:

“For me participation at the HULT Global Case Challenge Regional Finals in Shanghai gave me a wonderful opportunity to meet dedicated students from all over the world and to compete with them for a good cause. Gaining insights into the different challenges NGOs face in today’s globalized world, understanding them and applying a business mindset to find innovative solutions was very challenging, but also very rewarding. It was great to see how different teams looked at the same problem and how many different solutions could be found. I also found it very interesting to interact with the NGO representatives as it helped me to understand their struggle between having to operate as a business and to be competitive and at the same time reach their goals as an NGO, in the case of Sunny Money to replace kerosene with cheaper, better and saver solar light in households that do not have the purchasing power to do so on their own. I would love to further apply my business knowledge to NGO cases as it broadened my horizon considerably and I am looking forward to similar competitions to take part in.”

Carolin Voelker

“Even before I started the MBA program at CUHK I knew I would want to participate in one of the case competitions, as I like the idea of competing with a group of classmates against other top business schools, whilst having a good time and getting to know a lot of people. The HULT Global Case Competition enabled me to have exactly that – the competition was tough, but the socializing part and the final party were rewarding us for the effort we put in. All in all, the HULT Global Case Competition was a great experience and it was an honor to represent CUHK there.”

Philipp Martin

“Again CUHK has enabled me to participate in a globally known business competition. Participating in these diversified competitions and measuring myself against other global top MBA programs has been a major part of my MBA experience and a great learning. The HULT Global Case Competition specifically gave me the opportunity to apply my personal NGO experiences from Kenya to a similar project only on a much larger scale with a global impact. Competing in Shanghai with my team was not only a great learning but also a memory that I will always keep in mind – a memory that CUHK enabled me to make.”

Christian Seurig

“The HULT Global Case Competition gave me a chance to combine two things that I enjoy the most: competition and giving something back to the society. This was a fabulous platform for our team to apply our skills in developing wonderful solutions for a good cause and also learn from each other and from different Business school teams from around the world. Even though we were not the winners, I believe we did something great and actually produced something good. We are still working with NGO, who was impressed with our solutions, beyond the scope of the competition and hope to actually implement something in Africa.”

Nitin Damodaran

“After finding out about the HULT Global Case Competition, I knew right away that I wanted to participate. And, looking back on the experience, I am so glad I did. The competition itself gave us a great opportunity to be creative and brainstorm ideas for a good cause. Getting to meet an NGO representative and engaging in discussion with students from top business schools from around the world also added greatly to the experience. Overall our time in Shanghai was unique and brought our learning outside of the classroom into a competitive and exciting setting. I am sure my team would in join me in saying that the competition gave us some great memories to look back on during our time at CUHK.”

Elena Rueckert