Global Prize Competition

Want to get a taste of life as a consultant? Want to test your interview skills and apply lessons you’re learning at business school? Want to team with your classmates to address a real-life business challenge? Want to represent your school in a competition against other leading business schools? If you answered yes to any of those questions, the A.T. Kearney Global Prize is for you.

Each autumn, now 13 years running, MBA students from select business schools participate in our Global Prize case competition. Acting as management consulting teams, you tackle a case based on an actual A.T. Kearney client engagement. Throughout the process, you will have the opportunity to interact with our consultants as they act as the client in simulations, provide feedback on your efforts, and share their insights on the consulting process.

The competition consists of three stages:

• During the first stage (the local competition), up to fifteen teams from each participating school vie for a chance to represent their program at their region’s national competition. First place teams from each school share a cash prize and will move to the competition's second stage.
• In the second stage, the local winners compete for the satisfaction of being the best in their respective region and another shared cash award.
• The final stage is the North American 1st place team competing against the European 1st place team, with the winner claiming the Global Prize.

Participating Schools

• CMU
• Columbia University
• Kellogg
• University of Michigan
• University of Chicago
• Wharton

• Cranfield
• INSEAD
• Judge Business School
• London Business School
• SDA Bocconi