Business Case Competitions
Gain real-world experience, develop your skills, and win!
Eccles students have many opportunities to participate in business case competitions throughout their Eccles Experience.
- Participate in collaborative teamwork
- Network with peers and industry professionals
- Develop your leadership skills
- Gain real-world experience as you communicate data-driven solutions
- Build your resume and win prizes
Adobe Social Impact Challenge
Information Systems partners with Adobe and a non-profit organization to host this social impact competition where student teams promote the non-profits mission.
Business Consulting Case Competition
The Business Consulting Case Competition hosted by Leavitt Partners and Business Career Services asks students to tackle a challenging case representing a healthcare company’s request for market expansion.
DOMO/Layton Construction Hackathon
Information Systems partners with DOMO and Layton Construction for an annual 48-hour Hackathon. Students use the DOMO Business Intelligence (BI) platform to provide solutions to a real-world problem.
Fastenal Sales Challenge
Business Career Success partners with Fastenal for a three-round sales challenge, competing with schools across the nation. Represent the U and win up to $2,000 while tackling diverse sales scenarios that mirror real-life challenges.
Game Day Analytics Challenge
Hosted by Information Systems, student teams use Twitter data posted during the Super Bowl and analyze tweets for advertising insights. Winning teams receive cash, scholarships, and guaranteed interviews with sponsor companies.
Generative AI (chatGPT) Hackathon
Hosted by Information Systems, student teams use chatGPT to extract information from competition datasets to create value for their sample company. Winning teams receive prizes.
Marketing for Nonprofits Challenge
Hosted by Blip Billboards and Business Career Services, this unique multi-phase challenge brings student teams together to create outdoor media strategies for nonprofit organizations. Winning teams move through three phases, potentially representing the University of Utah and $10,000.
Salesforce Chatbot IDEAthon Challenge
The Information Systems Program at the Eccles School is partnering with Salesforce for an IDEAthon challenge. Undergraduate student teams participate in building a chatbot to solve real-world business problems.
Utah Real Estate Challenge
The Utah Real Estate Challenge (UREC) competition fosters an understanding of real estate development by giving students the opportunity to prepare and present a real estate development plan.
Hosted by Lassonde
Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute hosts several case competitions that allow student entrepreneurs to innovate, develop business plans, and win cash, in-kind prizes and seed money.
Get Seeded is sponsored by Zions Bank to help student-entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground. Students pitch their ideas to judges who determine whether they advance for an opportunity to receive funding.
Opportunity Quest (OQ) is is a statewide business model competition hosted by the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute across the state at partner universities. First-place teams receive cash and in-kind prizes.
The Utah Entrepreneur Challenge (UEC) is a statewide, student business-model competition where teams from universities across the state compete for the best business plan and a chance to win cash and in-kind prizes.
Hosted by UHealth
Utah’s premier healthcare innovation competition, Bench to Bedside (B2B) gives student teams the opportunity to form “startup” companies to identify an unmet clinical need and design a technology solution to address the need.
