Competition
About Youth MEC
Youth MEC is a business competition held specifically for young students who have the potential to become future business leaders. It hopes to inspire youth’s interest in business from an early age and further cultivate students’ business thinking and insights. The Judging Panel from the Columbia Business School will give insightful judgments and feedback on the business proposals submitted by the participants. Students joining the competition will have an opportunity to get exposed to real-world business problems by composing a business plan that includes product analysis, market analysis, marketing plan, financial planning, and risk management of their products or services. Through practices in these different dimensions, students can improve their innovation capabilities, entrepreneurial skills, logical thinking skills and market analysis skills thus become future business leaders.
Official Competition
The world’s only official youth entrepreneur competition is held by an ivy league business school, Columbia Business School.
Big Takeaways
Youth MEC provides an opportunity for participants to develop their business senses, innovative capability and entrepreneurial thinking. In the meantime, they can improve their public speaking skills from the final presentation. They also have the opportunity to receive the guidance and suggestions from Columbia Business School’s Judging Panel.
Judges from Current Columbia Business School VFA Professors/Instructors
Each year, the Judging Panel consists of top executives from corporate and current professors and instructors from Columbia Business School and Columbia Business School VFA. All team members will have a chance to consult directly with professors and domain experts.
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Watch It In Action
Skills
What You Get
Market Analysis
Product Analysis
Marketing
Financial Planning
Risk Management
Competition Process
STEP 1
First Round Submission
STEP 2
Feedback on First Round Submission
STEP 3
Finalists Announcement
STEP 4
Final Round Orientation
STEP 5
Final Business Plan Submission
STEP 6
Final Round
Paul Shih, Current CBS Venture For All® Professor
Paul is expecting his Doctorate in Education from Johns Hopkins University. He received his MBA from Columbia University and his BA in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Joseph Rios, Current CBS Venture For All® Professor
Joseph received his Ph.D. in International Comparative Education: Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics from Stanford University, his MA from Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and his BA from the University of California, San Diego. He is currently a senior consultant at Google.
Tatsuhito Sugaoi, Current CBS Venture For All® Professor
Tatsuhito worked for Philips Japan as Director of the Business Transformation, where he led his team to improve the operational efficiency that contributed to the improvement in operating profit. Prior to Philips, Tatsuhito worked at General Electric as the ECLP (Experienced Commercial Leadership Program) and mostly served in the area of new business development. He graduated with a MBA from Hitotsubashi University.
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