ESSEC Business Case Competition for Future Leaders 2025

Are you ready to put your skills to the test and tackle a real-life business challenge? This is your chance to work on a challenge provided by Decathlon, where your solutions could drive real impact for the company and its customers. This year’s competition will bring together top students from some of the best universities across Asia-Pacific, creating an exciting environment for innovation, collaboration, and problem-solving.

How You Will Benefit

Experience a world-class business school.

Gain direct exposure to a real-life business challenge.

Enhance your resume in record time.

Sharpen your entrepreneurial focus and knowledge of sustainability issues.

Program Prizes

1st place: Decathlon voucher worth SGD 2,000

2nd place: Decathlon voucher worth SGD 1,000

3rd place: Decathlon voucher worth SGD 500

Program Details

Date
17 May to 7 June 2025

Location
ESSEC Business School, Asia-Pacific at 5 Nepal Park, Singapore 139408

What is a case competition?
You and your team will be provided with a real-life business challenge that Decathlon faces. Your team will play the role of management consultants to identify the core issues and create a solution. Your team will have a specific amount of time to develop a strategy to address the key issues and present them to a panel of jury members.

Format
The case competition will be a hybrid event, with training workshops delivered online and the teams presenting in person at the ESSEC Asia-Pacific campus or online, depending on their location. The competition will run over three weeks. The workshops and talks by faculty members and industry leaders will run over two consecutive weekends (24, 25, 31 May and 1 June). The final presentations will be on 7 June 2025.

Eligibility

Teams of 3-6 members from the same or different universities.
All university students, regardless of year of study are invited to participate.

Application

Only one person per team needs to register.
Registration is open till 30 April at https://qrco.de/ESSECCaseComp2025
Registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
No registration fee is needed to join the ESSEC Case Competition.
If you have any questions, please send an email to robin.yeo@essec.edu.

ESSEC reserves the right to cancel the program if there are fewer than 20 participants. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis (subject to the quality of the application). Terms and conditions apply. Please refer to our FAQ section for more information.

Program Schedule

Step 1: Register

19 February
Registrations open

10 April
Webinar with live Q&A

30 April
Registrations close

Step 2: Prepare

17 May
Networking event & case reveal

21 May
Meet the jury

Step 3: Learn

24 May
Two workshops

25 May
Two workshops

Week of 26 May
Coaching

31 May
One workshop

1 June
One workshop

Week of 2 June
Coaching