The CHEST Foundation

View the 2009
Competition

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Competition

The CHEST Foundation and the Kellogg School of Management
Case Competition 2010

C a s e G u i d e l i n e s

Proposals should address diabetes management from a provider and patient perspective. Proposals should include a statement of objectives, an evaluation of similar efforts undertaken elsewhere, anticipated impacts on stakeholders, organizational structure, resource requirements (money, personnel, and tangible assets), budgets, sources of sustainable funding, and measurable criteria for success. The best proposals should have high value added over current approaches and offer a clear path to implementation. Ideally, proposals will have a turnke quality: aside from financial backing, there should be no additional steps required to implement the proposal.

The competition is open to teams of graduate students currently enrolled at Northwestern University. Each team must include at least one student who is enrolled in the Kellogg School of Management. The competition will be judged by a panel of distinguished judges and will conclude in mid-May. At the conclusion of the competition, two teams will be selected as finalists and give featured presentations at an awards dinner that will be attended by the judges, as well as leaders and potential investors from the community, business, and government. At the conclusion of the dinner, the panel of judges will decide on a winner and a runner-up. The winning team will receive $7,000, and the runner-up will receive $3,000.

Teams will have access to experts in medical research and diabetes education, as well as in other aspects of the medical and biotechnology industry.