6 curated guides
Company-run case competitions differ from college-organised ones in a way that matters before you commit time to one: they run on a fixed national calendar, publish a real brief tied to the sponsor's actual business, and - in several cases below - convert strong performance into a pre-placement interview. This hub covers the ones with enough of a track record to guide properly.
Marketing & strategy
Briefs ask for a brand or growth strategy: a consumer insight, a positioning choice, and a go-to-market plan. HUL L.I.M.E. and L'Oréal Brandstorm both sit here - judges weigh insight quality and executional realism over financial modelling depth.
Finance & strategy
Briefs centre on numbers first: reading real financials, building a valuation or investment case, or defending a strategic finance decision. HUL FinAce and EY CAFTA both test this - comfort with a P&L and a spreadsheet matters more than a punchy slide.
General business strategy
Broader briefs that don't lock into one function - P&G CEO Challenge has teams making company-wide decisions in a live simulator, while HSBC's programme is intentionally open to every academic stream, not just management students.
Hindustan Unilever Limited
Hindustan Unilever's flagship MBA case competition - first-year MBA teams solve a live marketing or strategy problem across a multi-stage process, with the strongest teams shortlisted for HUL's internship pipeline.
Hindustan Unilever Limited
HUL's annual finance and strategy case competition for first-year B-School students - teams analyse real company financials across an opening round and a CFO-judged semi-final before four teams reach a mentored grand finale.
Ernst & Young (EY)
EY India's long-running case championship for finance-focused students - an 11-edition-old competition on treasury, risk, and commodities themes, run individually or in small teams entirely online.
Procter & Gamble
P&G's global case competition for first-year MBA students - teams solve real P&G business-strategy cases through local and regional rounds, and the global round is run as a live business simulation.
L'Oréal
L'Oréal's global innovation and business-case competition for young people - teams solve a beauty-industry brief through local and national rounds, with national winners flown to Paris for the international final.
HSBC India, implemented by United Way Mumbai and Sattva Consulting
A free, undergraduate-only business case programme open to every academic stream - teams of four from the same college work a real business case, with the top two teams funded to represent India at the HSBC/HKU Asia Pacific Business Case Challenge in Hong Kong.
This is a curated selection of case competitions with a detailed, source-dated Brabble guide - not a complete real-time list of every case competition currently open. Most college- and institute-run case comps are single-year events without a durable track record to guide against; for those, see Brabble's live case competitions feed instead.