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Zurich Enterprise Challenge 2022

About the Zurich Enterprise Challenge

The Zurich Enterprise Challenge gives you an opportunity of a lifetime to work with one of the world’s top insurance companies and interact with its corporate customers to solve real-life strategy and business challenges.



  • Phase 1
    Qualification

    21 March – 26 June 2022

    Submit a video up to 6 minutes long presenting your innovative solution to the case study.

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  • Phase 2
    Collaboration

    July – October 2022

    The top teams will work with selected Zurich multinational customers on solving real-life corporate challenges.

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  • Phase 3
    Finalization

    December 2022 – Q1 2023

    The winning team will be awarded a CHF 5’000 cash prize and the runner-up team a CHF 2’000 cash prize.

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Examples of customers, which participated in the Zurich Enterprise Challenge in the past:

logos of companies Zurich Enterprise challenge

Phase 1 Topic - Qualification

There are three questions to the topic that must be answered in your presentation. Zurich will recognize and reward teams based on business relevance, applicability and creativity of the team’s solution. Other selection criteria are the quality of layout and design of the submission, and presentation skills.

Registration for the Zurich Enterprise Challenge 2022 has closed.

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Zurich Risk Room

Gain exclusive access to the Zurich Risk Room (ZRR), Zurich’s award-winning country risk assessment tool. Designed to illustrate the impact of multivariate risks on individual countries and the complex interconnectivity between different types of risks, the ZRR will be used as part of this competition to solve corporate challenges.


Eligibility

The Challenge is open to Master, MBA and PhD students (full or part-time) from any university worldwide. Participants should have an interest in management, finance, strategy and risk management or similar subjects. Multiple teams representing the same university can join the Challenge.



Registration

This is a team challenge; each team should consist of 3-4 team members. Be sure to complete your team's registration and enter the Challenge.

Registration deadline: 26 June 2022.


Prizes

  • Cash prize of CHF 5’000 for the winning team
  • Cash prize of CHF 2’000 for the runner-up team

Top teams

  • Work with Zurich and selected multinational customers, such as CBRE, Mars and Nestlé, on current corporate challenges
  • Cash prize of CHF 5’000 for the winning team, CHF 2’000 for the runner-up
  • Earn a certificate highlighting your achievements

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Submission

To facilitate your participation in the Zurich Enterprise Challenge 2022, please carefully read the following instructions to guide you through the submission process.

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FAQ

The Zurich Enterprise Challenge is a three-phase team competition designed to offer participating Masters, MBA or PhD students the opportunity to work directly with multinational corporations to provide real world solutions to existing corporate challenges.
  • You will get the chance to solve real-world corporate risk management and strategy challenges.
  • You will have the opportunity to work with Zurich and one of their prestigious, multinational customers. Companies, such as Syngenta, Kimberly-Clark, Lendlease, Philips, Sacyr, Coca-Cola HBC, Groupe Renault, Nestlé, Mars, CBRE and other Fortune 500 companies have participated in the Challenge so far.
  • You will have access to the Zurich Risk Room, an award-winning country risk assessment tool to support your risk analysis.
  • Your team could win a cash prize worth CHF 5’000 or CHF 2’000.
  • You could be invited for an interview with Zurich for a position.
  • The Challenge is designed exclusively for enrolled Masters, MBA or PhD students from any university worldwide. Students graduating in 2022 are also eligible for the Challenge. Any student, independently of his/her area of studies, interested in management, finance, strategy and risk management is encouraged to participate.
  • This is a team challenge for teams of 3-4 members. All participants are required to register a profile on the registration website. Multiple teams representing the same university can also join the Challenge.
  • Registration for the Zurich Enterprise Challenge 2022 is now open and will close on 26 June 2022.
  • Select your team members (3-4) and assign a team captain. The duties of the team captain will be to manage the communication with Zurich and submit your presentation. The team captain is required to register the team. Should you encounter technical difficulties please send your team registration to riskroom@zurich.com including a list of all team members and university names indicating who the team captain is and your team name.
  • We encourage you to register as early as possible in order to receive any additional materials for Phase 1 as soon as possible.
  • Phase 1:
    Your team has time from the announcement of the topic on Monday, 21 March 2022 to Sunday, 26 June 2022 in order to submit your solution to the case.
  • Phase 2:
    If you qualify for Phase 2, your team will agree the overall duration of your project, including start and end-date, between July and October 2022 with your assigned company.
  • Phase 1:
    Submit a voice-over presentation that lasts a maximum of six minutes.
  • Phase 2:
    Submit a presentation containing the analysis undertaken and your recommendation(s) to your assigned company’s case study, including any necessary explanations, additional information and appendices. Your team’s presentation should be:
    • Prepared for an audience at your assigned company’s C-suite and Board level.
    • Appropriately structured so that it could be used in a 20-minutes presentation.
    • In English.
  • You will have to create a voice-over presentation.
  • An email with Phase 1 results will be sent to the team captain by 8 July 2022. Please make sure to add the email riskroom@zurich.com to your contacts, so that the email doesn’t end up in the spam box.
  • The best teams from Phase 1 will be invited to Phase 2 in order to work with one of Zurich’s multinational customers on solving a customer-specific case study.
  • Your team will get full access to the Zurich Risk Room tool, used by risk and strategy management specialists around the world, in order to solve your case study.
  • Your team will agree the overall duration of your project, including start and end-date, between July and October 2022 with your assigned company.
  • The Zurich team will match student teams with Zurich customers. All decisions made by Zurich and their participating customers will be final and binding.
  • At the start of your collaboration period with your assigned company you will be given the case study from your assigned company and access to the full Zurich Risk Room tool and support materials.
  • Depending on the case provided by each Zurich customer, there may be additional material.
  • Zurich customers reserve the right to ask teams to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
  • The Zurich team will oversee communications between student teams and their assigned companies.
  • Teams will interact with their assigned company via conference calls, email correspondence and any other mode of remote / online communication as agreed with Zurich and the team’s assigned company. No travelling or other expenses by the students will be required.
  • Phase 2 results will be communicated by the Zurich team by 5 December 2022 at the latest.

Rules

Before participating in the Zurich Enterprise Challenge, you should read the official rules in their entirety. By submitting you unconditionally agree to all of the terms and conditions of these official rules.

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Contact

Please contact the Zurich team for any questions about the Zurich Enterprise Challenge by e-mail.

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