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2012 Life Sciences Case Competition

Congratulations to the 2012 Case Competition Winners!

 

1st Place Team ($2500):  Superstorm Consulting

2nd Place Team ($1000):  SEAS Consulting

3rd Place Team ($500):  HerniLux

4th Place Team ($250):  HeMOS

5th Place Team ($250):  TechnoLogic

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About The Case Competition

Every year, the Yale Healthcare and Life Sciences Club organizes a case competition that brings together students from multiple disciplines, including the School of Management, School of Medicine, School of Public Health and the Graduate Schools.  The competition helps participants develop their marketing, consulting, financial, scientific and clinical skills.

This year, 20 teams of 115 future MBAs, PhDs, MDs and MPHs participated in the Case Competition.  These groups dissected a real and relevant life sciences case, after which the teams presented an analysis and recommendations to a judge’s panel of industry experts. 

The winners were selected at the reception and networking event following the competition.  At the award ceremony/networking event the sponsoring companies provided some feedback on the context of the case, and this also was an excellent opportunity for participants to meet and network with judges and industry recruiters.  

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2012 Written Case:

 

Download pdf file of written case

 

Embedded links reference sheet (Word Doc)

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2012 Presentations (only top five teams listed by rank):

 

Superstorm Consulting

SEAS Consulting

HerniLux

HeMOS

TechnoLogic

Team Keen Assumptions

Lumin Consulting

Team RESOLVE

Team XFactor

OKAY

BAAS Healthcare Partners

JB 007

McBurney & Company

Breakthrough Consulting

Vm

Top Dog

Stickers

1M Solutions

The-Edge

SOM Life Sciences

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Pictures From the Award Ceremony:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Info Sessions:

 

SLIDES FROM INFO SESSIONS

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Registration:  

The deadline for registration is 6PM on Tuesday, Oct 23rd, 2012

 

Teams, Partial Teams, and Individuals register here:  REGISTRATION FORM

 

Contact maury.raycroft@yale.edu if you accidentally missed the deadline.  Approval for late registration is not guaranteed.  

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Case Competition and Reception: 

The competition will take place on Friday, November 2nd, 2012.

 Teams will be scheduled a time between 9 and 4:30 PM for their presentation.  Please report to the staging room 15 minutes before your presentation time.

Presentations will be held in Steinbach Lounge, 52 Hillhouse, New Haven, CT

The reception and awards event will take place at 6PM in the GM Room, 55 Hillhouse, New Haven, CT.

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Rules

Participation:

  1. The YHLC Case Competition is open to Yale undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, post-doctoral fellows, medical residents, interns, and fellows.
  2. The Yale Healthcare & Life Sciences Club reserves the sole right to disqualify participants based on violations of the Rules.
  3. Teams must register all members by 6pm October 23rd. We will confirm team rosters by the next day.
  4. Questions, Case, Presentation Schedule, and Judging Guidelines will be emailed to all registered participants on October 28th.
  5. Failure to deliver presentations to Kevin Callender (kevin.callender@yale.edu) by 8AM on Nov 2nd will result in disqualification of the team. No exceptions.
  6. Although the internet is fair game, do not ask the case writers, judges, sponsor employees, or YHLC leaders for help once the case is distributed. The presentation should represent registered team members’ work only. All non-case sources should be cited in a brief slide at the end, not doing so may harm your score.
  7. Disqualified participants: All current employees of any sponsor organization, anyone involved with the design of the case.  Past winning teams may not compete with each other, but winning participants may compete.

Teams:

  1. Teams must consist of 3-6 individuals.
  2. Teams should be arranged to maximize expertise diversity, meaning teams should not be comprised of members from a single school.
  3. Individual registrants will be distributed and combined in order to maximize team diversity and even team size.
  4. Partial teams should indicate on the registration form that they would like a team member with a particular background.  For example, if a partial team of two or three SOM students would like one or two individuals with a science background added to the team, simply state this on the registration form, and we will match you as best as possible. 

Case:

  1. The case will be emailed to all participating individuals in pdf format. Each team may work on the case until 8AM on presentation day.
  2. Once the case has been distributed, all case-related questions should be emailed to maury.raycroft@yale.edu.  The case-writing team will address all questions and respond to the team and/or all of the teams in an appropriate manner.
  3. Case recommendations must be prepared in Microsoft PowerPoint format and email your presentation to Kevin Callender (kevin.callender@yale.edu) by 8AM on Friday, November 2nd.
  4. Case recommendations will be run on a PC so it is highly recommended that the case recommendations are prepared on a PC to avoid any conversion issues.
  5. Not all team members need to be present on November 2nd for the competition, but there must be at least 2 team members presenting.

Competition:

  1. Teams will be assigned a randomly selected presentation slot between 9am and 5PM on November 2nd.  The presentation schedule and case will be emailed to all participants on October 28th.
  2. Please plan to arrive at SOM Room A60 or A46 (depending on assignment) about 15 minutes ahead of your scheduled presentation time, as you run the risk of being disqualified if you are late.
  3. Participating teams will have 15 minutes to make their case recommendation to the judges, followed by Q&A at the judges’ discretion. Q&A will last no longer than 10 minutes.
  4. The dress code for the competition is business formal.

Good Luck!

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             Thank You to Our 2012 Case Competition Sponsors!


See the 2012 Sponsor Poster:

SPONSOR POSTER

 

COVIDIEN

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McKinsey & Company

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TechAtlasGroup                                                  Yale Center for Customer Insights

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 The Boston Consulting Group                          FrankelGroup Consulting

 

Interested in Sponsoring?  
Sponsors recieve resume books and have access to the networking night, where they can get to know Yale's soon to be PhDs, MDs, MBAs and MPHs!
Contact maury.raycroft@yale.edu for more information.  
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2011 Case Competition Winners:

1st Place:  DT Consulting - Dong Chen, Anit Banerjee, Ian Berke, Shan Jiang, Jieyu Zou, Yang Yang

2nd Place: Insighto - Alice Zhou, Ren Du, Sheng Gu, Ning Zhang

Check out our Image Gallery of the Event!

2011 Presentations:

 

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Check out the case competitions from the past for more information:

Case Competition 2010
Case Competition 2009