Case Competitions
Pitch your ideas, put your business skills to the test, and compete in a case competition
Participating in a business-related case competition is one of the best ways to develop critical business and presentation skills, gain practical real-world industry experience, and network with experts and potential employers. Partner with Carey faculty to fine-tune your presentation and case analysis skills. And then put your theories to the test and present to leading executives around the world. With competitions hosted at Carey and funding available to register and travel to outside competitions, at Carey Business School you can compete and win in some of the most prestigious case competitions worldwide.
2025
CFA Financial Career Accelerator
A team of Carey finance students won first place at the 2025 CFA Financial Career Accelerator in China. Competing under the theme “Intelligence Unleashed: AI Charts a New Chapter for Finance,” the team developed an in-depth report on the current and future applications of AI in finance.
CFA Institute Research Challenge
Five Carey students took home first place at the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area CFA Institute Research Challenge in February 2025, advancing to the sub-regional round of the global competition. This achievement marks Carey’s sixth win in the last eight competitions in which they had a competing team.
2024
2024 iOme Challenge
A team of four first-year MBA students and two MS in Finance students won the 2024 iOme Challenge. The iOme Challenge is a prestigious national student competition that tasks participants with analyzing the current state of retirement policy in the United States and proposing viable policy solutions to address the needs of their generation. Participating teams respond to the annual iOme Challenge question with an essay and public policy proposal. The six Carey students wrote their response paper titled, “Investing in Our Future: A Transition to Sustainable Retirement Security.”
2024 Venture Capital Investment Competition
A team of four Carey students won first place at the 2024 New England Regional Finals of the Venture Capital Investment Competition in Boston. This marks the first win in Carey history at the regional round of the competition. The VCIC is a competition where teams of participants act as venture capitalists for the day and evaluate startups for potential funding. The teams conduct extensive research, draft a term sheet for their selected startup, and present findings to a panel of professional venture capitalist judges.
2023
Howard University’s 27th Annual MBA Exclusive Conference: 18th Annual Minority Case Competition
A team of Carey students took home first place and $12,000 at the 18th Annual Minority Case Competition, held during the MBA Exclusive Conference at Howard University. This year’s competition was sponsored by the NobleReach Foundation and themed “Leveraging Innovation and Entrepreneurship for National Competitiveness.” The case focused on the United States’ response to substantial adversarial investments in digital infrastructure and the need to create a mission-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem to remain competitive. The Carey team developed a comprehensive strategy to build the ecosystem, aligning entrepreneurs, investors, universities, students, communities, and government agencies. The strategy aimed to ignite a wave of innovation that would transform the entrepreneurial landscape, ultimately contributing to a more sustainable and responsible society. Students had a week to plan, strategize, and solve the case to then present their ideas to a panel of judges.
2022
BioNJ Health Equity in Clinical Trials MBA Business Plan Case Competition
A team of Johns Hopkins Carey Business School students took home the first-place prize, winning $10,000, at the BioNJ’s inaugural MBA Business Plan Case Competition. The Carey team, consisting of five MBA/MPH students, developed a business plan that outlined a new health equity solution in clinical trials. The competition is designed to promote next-generation innovators and to identify new methods and models to strengthen clinical trial diversity and expand health equity.
MIT Sloan Operations Simulation Competition
A team of Carey students took first place, winning $2,000, at the 18th annual MIT Sloan Operations Simulation Competition, held virtually on April 20-22, 2022. This marks the third win by a Carey team in the last four competitions, making Johns Hopkins the best-performing business school (tied with MIT Sloan) in competition history.
CFA Institute Research Challenge
A Carey student team placed first in the annual local DC/Baltimore CFA Institute Research Challenge. The competition requires students to research and analyze a publicly traded company, write a report, and present a buy, sell, or hold recommendation to a panel of industry experts.
Case Competitions Funding and Support
Carey Business School provides case competition teams with faculty and peer advisors, case preparation workshops, a list of over a hundred national case competitions, and funding for registration and other needs if necessary.
To request case competition resources, email Carey.Student@jhu.edu.
Case competitions Carey participates in
CFA Institute Research Challenge
The annual CFA Institute Research Challenge is a global competition requiring students to research and analyze a publicly traded company, write a report, and present their buy, sell, or hold recommendations to a panel of industry experts. Teams are judged based on their research, analytical, valuation, report writing, and presentation skills.
Danaher Case Competition
The annual Healthcare Business Association case competition is sponsored by global science and technology innovator Danaher Corporation. Student teams from universities across the nation traveled to Baltimore to compete for the $7,500 first-place prize, on a case judged by a panel of Danaher Health IT subject experts and business leaders.
Graduate Consulting Club Case Competition
The Johns Hopkins Graduate Consulting Club Case Competition’s annual competition brings together students and fellows from across the country to work on some of the most pressing challenges in today's health care sector. Interdisciplinary teams comprised of students from across multiple schools, programs and departments. 40 schools competed in the April 23, 2021 case competition sponsored by HighMark Health.
MIT Sloan Operations Simulation Competition
This intense, 48-hour simulated competition requires teams to improve the efficiency of a hypothetical near-bankrupt firm. Graduate students from top business schools across the globe aim to run the most profitable factory with rankings based on their ending cash balances.
Venture Capital Investment Competition
In this annual competition, student teams play the role of venture capitalists who are looking to invest in one of the startups presenting at the event. Student teams are assessed on the investment opportunities and pitching an investment strategy to the judges. The winning team of the local (Carey students only) competition win a spot in the regionals.
Past case competitions
2021
Danaher Case Competition
Carey students placed second in the 2021 virtual Danaher Case Competition. This competition focused on the rapid growth of at-home lab testing and issues related to effectiveness, efficiency, and inequities in access.
KeyBank Ohio State University Minority MBA case competition
A Carey Business School team took first place, winning $10,000, in the KeyBank Ohio State University Minority MBA Case Competition.
Arthur Page Society - Student Case Competition
Carey student, Rhianna Taniguchi, placed first in the business school category with her submission, "Turning a Moment into a Movement: Why the NBA said 'Black Lives Matter.'"
UNC/Duke Case Competition
Carey students placed third in the UNC/Duke Case Competition. The competition brings together graduate students (Master’s, PhD, JD, MD) and provides the opportunity for teams to apply their analytical skills and creativity in a real-world context, by solving a real-world business problem.
2020
MIT Operations Simulation Competition
For the second consecutive year, a Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School student team took the top prize at the annual MIT Sloan Operations Simulation Competition.
Amazon Case Competition
The Carey Business School team took the top spot at the 2020 Reaching Out MBA conference— the largest gathering of LBGTQ+ business students and alumni.
Harvard Global Case Competition
A team of Johns Hopkins students placed third in Harvard University’s annual Global Case Competition on April 25, 2020. The team, which included four Carey students, team faced off against 160 other teams from around the world.
2019
Kellogg Biotech and Healthcare Case Competition
A four-member team of Johns Hopkins University students, including two from the Carey Business School, has won first place in the 16th annual Kellogg Biotech and Healthcare Case Competition.
MIT Operations Simulation Competition
A Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Global MBA team took top prize in the 15th annual MIT Sloan Operations Simulation Competition, held April 7, 2019, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.