Thammasat Undergraduate Business Challenge

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Thammasat Undergraduate Business Challenge

• TUBC

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TUBC

• TUBC is a case competition for undergraduates
  from international business schools from all over
  the world. The event is hosted by Thammasat
  University.

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Universities invited to join TUBC

• Thai Universities
• Assumption University
• Asian University of Science and Technology
• Bangkok University International College
• Chulalongkorn University
• Mahidol University International College
• Schiller-Stamford International College
• Thammasat University

• Oversea Universities
• Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• McGill University, Canada
• Nanyang Business School, Singapore
• Maastricht University Netherlands
• Singapore Management University, Singapore
• Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
• University of Auckland, New Zealand
• University of California at Berkeley, USA
• University of Washington, USA
• Tsing Hua University, China
• University of Melbourne, Australia
• University of Southern California, USA
• University of South Carolina, USA
• University of Texas at Austin, USA
• University of Western Ontario, Canada
• Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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TUBC

• Participating teams will be given forty
  uninterrupted hours to analyze and prepare a
  solution for an international business case.
  Each team is required to present their case
  solutions and answer questions to a panel of
  honorable judges.

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• Eligibility
• Each team will be comprised of four currently
  enrolled undergraduate students matriculating
  towards their university degree.
• Each participant must be a full time student, not
  exchange student.
• No participants from previous year TUBC are
  allowed.
• No alternates are permitted.
• In additional to the four team members, each team
  may be accompanied by a faculty advisor.
  However, teams are not allowed to consult with
  the faculty advisor during preparation of the
  case analysis, or on the day of the competition.
• Team members should process expertise in a wide
  range of business disciplines from finance,
  marketing, economics and accounting, to
  international issues, technology, quantitative
  thinking, and management.

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• Presentation Format
• The competition is divided into two parts the
  preliminary round and the final round. In the
  preliminary round, teams will be divided into
  four divisions. Each division will consist of
  four teams.
• Each team will have twenty (20) minutes to
  present its plan. Before the presentation, the
  team will be given additional 5 minutes for
  set-up. THIS TIME LIMIT WILL BE STRICTLY
  ENFORCED. The presentation will be followed by a
  15-minute question and answer (QA) session
  conducted by a panel of honorable judges.
• Each member of the team must participate in the
  formal presentation of the plan.
• Teams must dress in business attire to maintain
  anonymity.
• The presentation must be computerized using
  Microsoft Office 2003. The presentation must be
  in English only.
• In the preliminary round, teams may not observe
  other presentations or QA sessions, neither of
  the teams in the same nor different division.

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• Presentation Format (Contd)
• In the final round, the four finalists will
  present their case solution again, using the same
  presentation used in the preliminary round.
• In the final round, once the final four teams are
  announced, they will be asked to leave the
  auditorium. A team, once finished its
  presentation, may observe both the presentations
  and QA sessions of the teams that follow it.
  The finalists may not observe other presentations
  or QA sessions until they have made their final
  presentation.
• In addition, the final round presentations are
  opened for the general public. However, guests
  in the auditorium will not be permitted to ask
  questions to the teams.

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• The Judges
• The TUBC organizing committee will be responsible
  for selecting and inviting a panel of judges.
• Leaders from the business community, consultants,
  and executives from the multi-national company
  will be invited to judge the event.
• The chair of the panel will be responsible to
  establish standards for comparison and goals of
  questioning, in order to maintain consistency
  across the final teams.
• Each division in the preliminary round will be
  judged by a panel of three corporate judges. The
  final round presentations will be judged by a
  panel of seven corporate judges (Tentative). All
  judges are required to complete a feedback form
  for each team. The feedback form will be given
  to all participating teams after the event.

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• Date From August 18th to August 22nd, 2009.
• Venue The Pullman Bangkok

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Tentative Schedule
Any change of the schedule will be announced
later, if any.
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