By José Ángel de la Paz

Cristina De la Mora, Fernando Schlitter, Rodrigo Gallardo and Arturo Chavero, students from the EGADE Full-Time MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, got the first place in Deloitte's 2020 MBA Case Competition.

The fifth edition of the event was held on March 13 at Deloitte's offices in Mexico City, featuring seven teams comprised of 28 postgraduate students from EGADE Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey, IPADE, UDLAP, UNAM and Universidad Anáhuac.

Members of the winning team shared some of the lessons they learned from the competition, in which they experienced one day in the work of a consultant:

“To succeed you need to work as a team, trust what you know and seize all opportunities,” said De la Mora.

“It's very important to know yourself and understand your strengths and weaknesses. That is how you can build a multidisciplinary team that can identify and solve challenges from multiple angles,” Schlitter said.

“It was a great opportunity, very well organized to test ourselves, and each one had a lot to contribute; it is key to identify the strengths of each consultant for a good performance of the team,” Gallardo added.

Another team representing EGADE Business School was comprised of Master in Business Management students: Karime Ganem, Pierre Fossecave, Daniel Zavala and Brent van Kesteren.

Each of the teams was tasked with solving an eSports case by proposing a market expansion strategy for one of the top 3 companies in the industry.

The students had seven hours to solve the case and prepare a 15-minute presentation that outlined their proposal, whit 10 additional minutes to answer questions from the judges.

A panel of Deloitte partners and managers selected the winning team after evaluating each of the presentations, the content of the proposed strategies and the feasibility of their implementation.