Global Quantitative Competition / GQC

The Business Analysis Case Competition is an opportunity for the brightest students to come together to solve real-world business problems. During the competition, teams will conduct in-depth analysis and consider multiple data points before making recommendations to a panel of industry experts.

Practice becoming an analytics expert by using your programming, data wrangling, analysis, visualization, and presentation skills in one game. Provide recommendations and actions to our team of analytics experts based on your data analysis. We hope you will join us in this year's exciting case competition.

About GQC Business Analysis Competition

The Business Analysis Competition (GQC) is one of the business plan competitions run by leading universities and partner organisations. Established in 2001, GQC manages the event with a specially selected student committee. The GQC Business Analysis Competition is open to all students at the University, and since its inception, has attracted more than 50 student teams each year, including nearly 400 participants from universities around the world.

seminar

Discover the vast resources available at the university for budding entrepreneurs. Participants gain access to practical, actionable knowledge through a series of seminars delivered by top professors from top universities and leading global corporations. Learn how to write a business plan, prepare financial forecasts, protect intellectual property and bring your ideas to life.

Target

GQC Business Analysis Competition is not just about ideas. GQC is more a comprehensive platform for college students and their teams to formulate and publish their plans for new ideas about future business and non-commercial.

1)Focus on world-class competition, highlighting the strategic challenges and management dilemmas faced by global business leaders

2)Promote education through cases and events

3)Promote teamwork and cross-cultural communication

4)Provide a forum for students and staff to exchange ideas and share experiences

team up

A carefully selected mix of leading universities is invited to participate.

Each team consists of 4-7 undergraduate students.

Contest

Each team was given 120 hours to complete the analysis and provide recommendations to senior management for consideration. During this time, students must work on their own. Permission to discuss the case with outside resources, faculty, advisors, or colleagues.

judge

The GQC competition invited some of the most respected business leaders to judge the plans submitted by the participating teams. The game requires full refereeing.

Venture Finals are judged on the following criteria:

1) Quality of Ideas

2) communication

3) The size of the potential opportunity

4) Fully understand the entrepreneurial management process

Each stage is overseen by a different set of judges. No judge is involved in more than one stage. This is to give the team the opportunity to make significant improvements between stages without fear of bias, and to provide a fresh set of perspectives at each step.

SWOT analysis

Information about the external environment and your organization's internal capabilities is critical to informing your goals and strategy and making sound business decisions. Competition participants, from the perspective of a company manager, operating a given line of business or managing a product portfolio, must identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of your business.

Tools and Reference Materials

The GQC Business Analysis Competition specifies the use of SWOT analysis tools from Harvard Business Review HBR. This tool will help you master the key fundamentals of SWOT analysis. The tool provides a comprehensive overview of key concepts with detailed examples and includes a customizable Powerpoint template to help you and your team successfully perform and present a SWOT analysis of your company or project. The tool provides:

1) A detailed guide to the four quadrants of a SWOT analysis, including the best way to structure discussion questions to get the most out of your colleagues

2) Two examples of fictional companies bringing concepts to life

3) Customizable Powerpoint templates to help you hold your own SWOT analysis session for your project or company

4) A customizable four-quadrant SWOT template that you can use to bring together all your ideas and present them to others in the company.