2024 ISM-HK Student Case Competition

2024 ISM-HK Student Case Competition

Congratulations to our HKU teams for winning the First Place, Third Place and Best Presenter in 2024 ISM-HK Student Case Competition!

The ISM-HK Student Case Competition is an annual competition hosted by the Institute for Supply Management Hong Kong (ISM-HK). The competition aims to empower students to discover the latest and upcoming trends in Supply Chain & Procurement.

This year, ISM-HK has collaborated with HKU Asia Case Research Centre and Cathay Pacific to present a real-life case on supplier risk management with sustainability as the key theme. A total of over 350 students from various universities in Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, and Singapore participated in this year competition.

Top 5 finalist teams showcased their solutions to distinguished panel of judges from renowned companies such as AS Watson, Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong Jockey Club, HSBC, Li & Fung, Lululemon, Mars, Microsoft, MTR, Richemont, Schneider Electric and World Green Organization. Our students have demonstrated exceptional problem-solving skills and won First Place, Third Place and Best Presenter in the competition.

Find out more about the competition: https://www.ism-hk.org/

 

First Place

Team name: Brain & Company

Team members:

Miss Ho Lucine Tsz Ying, BBA(Acc&Fin), Year 2

Mr. Leung Ho Lun, BBA(Law)&LLB, Year 2

Miss Mak Ho Yan, BEcon&Fin, Year 1

Miss Shih Pui Hei, BBA, Year 2

Mr. Xu Shu Ming Alex, BBA(IBGM), Year 1

Third Place

Team name: Pawn Consulting

Team members:

Miss Chzhan Lina, BBA(IBGM), Year 2

Miss Kim Sihyun, BBA(IBGM), Year 5

Miss Shi Weijuan, BSc(MAT), Year 2

Best Presenter:

Miss Ho Lucine Tsz Ying, BBA(Acc&Fin), Year 2

 

Student Sharing:

The ISM-HK Student Case Competition offered me a precious opportunity to network with supply chain professionals and experts, gaining insight into how they approach similar complex problems that involve sustainability, supply chain, corporate risk, and various departments within the company. Such complicated problems often involve cooperation and understanding to mitigate and solve them, in which we learnt greatly from the judges and other teams’ presentations.”

(by Miss Ho Lucine Tsz Ying)

 

The ISM-HK Student Case Competition opened a new door for me in the supply chain management and procurement sector. Previously, I had never worked on any supply chainrelated cases, and this certainly helped me formulate a high-level overview of how an aviation company’s backend supply chain functions. Huge thanks to the judges’ reflections in the semi-finals and the finals who raised important questions to help us construct a more comprehensive solution in solving supply chain related issues.

(by Mr. Leung Ho Lun, Maverick)

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