Rotman Management Consulting Association - 2nd Year Case Comp

Yesterday, there was a second year case comp was organized by the Rotman Management Consulting Association (MCA). I've already paid the fees, so I didn't feel too guilty eating their lunch. It was good to see our second year colleagues in action and get a preview of what case competitions are all about.

There were industry judges from some of the major consulting firms in Toronto: BCG, Monitor, Accenture, Deloitte, etc. I even met a good friend of mine who was judging, now an Associate for Monitor and had a chance to speak with his boss. We had a great chat about consulting and life beyond the MBA.

The actual case was quite interesting, involving the analysis of a product. There were some great insights provided by the groups and I learned a lot about the process of developing a case as well as where to look for opportunities and challenges.

I'm building a team with some colleagues: Neesha Patel and Fei Yu (the only two other first years to show up). Neesha and I had previously arranged to meet up at this competition to start discussing building a team and I had met Fei earlier (we share the same Rotman buddy, another good friend of mine). Neesha was an analyst for McKinsey in India and Fei is from the University of Toronto Skoll Program (like Engineering and Management at McMaster). Both are smart cookies and clearly go getters. We'll meet regularly to practice cases and probably enter into competitions together. Neesha has hinted that she might know two more people to fill the last few spots, and I'm looking forward to working with this crack team.