How many members were on last year’s executive team in comparison to this year?
21 last year vs 23 this year => + 1 co-chair + 1 operations
What does I.C.B.C. stand for
Inter-Collegiate Business Competition
List all the portfolios and determine the portfolios responsible for managing relationships with external, non-Queen’s stakeholders (There are 12)
External/Outreach: [UL], [Sponsorship], [J&A], [External Events], [Cases]
Non-External: [QCC & Debate], [Digital Strategy], [Internal Events], [Marketing and publications], [Finance], [Senior Advisor], [Co-Chair], [Operations]
What is the Preliminary Round Format
10 minute video submission + 5 pages of exhibits
What was the Digital Strategy stream originally known as?
Management Information Systems
When was I.C.B.C. founded and by whom? (Must get both)
1978, Geoff Arnoldi
What is our slogan?
CANADA’S LARGEST, OLDEST, AND MOST PRESTIGIOUS UNDERGRADUATE CASE COMPETITION
Who obtains cases and judges for Q.C.C.?
Q.C.C. & Debate Coordinators
How long are final weekend presentations and judges feedback
The 15-minute presentation, 5 minutes of feedback
Why are you proud to be on I.C.B.C.? (must say with chest and love.)
You will only get these points if you said it with your heart;)
How many streams were in the first ICBC and what streams were they?
3 streams; Business Policy, Debate, a computer-simulated business game
How many streams of competition are there and what are they?
Accounting + Finance, HR + Ethics, Marketing, Business Policy, Digital Strategy, (Debate)
What is a team host vs room host?
Room host monitors the presentation rooms, and team hosts gets assigned a school team to help
Describe the two streams of competition for Q.C.C.
Maroon - first-years or new case competition competitors, Gold - 2nd years+ or experienced competitors
Can the same school compete in multiple streams at the same time
Yes
What were the oldest and the newest streams of competition?
Business Policy (oldest) & Digital Strategy (newest)
What are our 3 main events and when are they held (general months are accepted; bonus 100 points for exact dates)
Q.C.C. (End of September, September 23), Preliminary Round (Beginning to Mid October), Final Weekend (Mid-January, Jan 12-14)
Which portfolio do you reach out to for schedules and to know where you need to be at what point in the day?
Operations
How many teammates participate in each competing team at Final Weekend
2, business policy is 3
Roughly how many schools typically enter preliminary rounds?
35+
What initiative was recently implemented by People & Culture (now known as events) at I.C.B.C. Final Weekend last year, that we plan on making an annually-returning event?
Local business scavenger hunt
How many International Invitational teams are there, what stream are they for, and how many total teams does this give the aforementioned stream?
2 international invitational teams, business policy stream, bp has a total of 8 teams after including the international invitational teams
Which portfolio do you reach out to in order to communicate things to competitors during the competition? Linktree, Mass email message, Microsoft teams, General problems
Linktree - DS
Mass message through email - UL
Microsoft Teams (informal comms) - yourself lmao
Problems - Co-chairs
At what times do you give warnings to competitors throughout their presentation?
ten (10) minutes, five (5) minutes, two (2) minutes, one (1) minute, thirty (30) seconds, and ten (10) seconds.
What are I.C.B.C.’s main value drivers? (How are we different from other case competitions)
Original cases (meaning we have faculty write them for us)
Representing Smith on a global scale
8 Streams
Prestige + Calibre