If you register before September 19, it will cost $125 per team. From September 20 to October 3, the registration fee is $175 per team.
Purdue has contracted a special rate of $136 (2 Queen Beds) for participants at the Hilton Garden Inn at 356 East State St. West Lafayette, IN 47907. The phone number is 765-743-2100. The Group Code is 90B.
Yes, there will be both an undergraduate and graduate category. The undergraduate students will compete against other undergraduate students, and graduate students will compete against other graduate teams.
There is a tentative agenda on the 2025 portion of the website. The official agenda will be released by middle of October. When you come and check in for the competition you will be given a folder that will contain an agenda for the day of the case competition.
Teams can get advice and guidance from staff members regarding how to approach the case and how to present their solutions. Teams should not get solutions from advisors, school faculty, or any other non-team members during preparation of the case or on the day of competition. Teams are expected to produce original work that is solely attributable to the members of their team. They are welcome to use books, the internet, or any other non-human resource to gather resources for the case.
When you submit your solution to the case you will be emailing your final products to the case competition email,
businesshrconference@purdue.edu. Therefore, you will not need to provide your own copy of the presentation. When you come in to present your solution, it will be pulled up and projected on a screen for you and the judges. Teams will then be given a clicker to click through your presentation. If you use any other program besides a slide deck for your presentation you will have access to the computer to show that as well.
Teams will have preparation rooms in which you can securely store backpacks and any items you will not be using during the presentation. You do not need to bring anything to the competition besides your name tag, which will be provided, and any note cards that you may need for presenting.
On Wednesday night there will be a welcome event where teams can socialize before competition day. Teams are required to check in Wednesday night. If a team is unable to check in at that time, team members will need to notify case competition staff for check-in details.
For the competition we recommend that you dress business formal for your presentation. For the awards dinner we would like teams to dress more casually and show your school pride by wearing school gear.
Winners will be announced during the awards dinner after the competition on the same day.
You can continue to practice your presentation, however — no changes can be made to your slide deck after the official submission.
Teams will be emailed the case on Monday, October 27 and will have approximately one week to complete and submit their presentation ppt slide deck. To help teams prepare, a virtual Live Case Briefing with the Case Sponsor will be held 1-2 days after the case release.
Case solutions should be presented using a PowerPoint presentation. You are more than welcome to use any other programs and/or software to accompany the PowerPoint presentation.
Examples will be sent out along with this year’s case on October 27. These examples will serve only as a frame of reference and should not be seen as a framework or template for team’s recommendations and presentation.
After awards are presented, the judges' scorecards will be scanned and emailed back to the teams so that they can see their feedback.
