Student Competition

Baylor-NACRA Student Case Writing Competition
NACRA Annual Meeting
Las Vegas on October 6-8, 2016

The Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship & Free Enterprise is offering $10,000 in prize money for the best student-written decision cases related to the intersection of entrepreneurial activity and public policy. This might include organizational examples in a variety of industries in which public policy (on a national, state or municipal level) has influenced the launching, sustaining or discontinuation of a business entity. Examples of policies that influence entrepreneurship might include: tax rates, licensing, permits, subsidies, regulation and corporate cronyism.

Cases must be accompanied by an instructor’s manual and should be submitted to the NACRA annual meeting to be reviewed. A case may be authored by one to four undergraduate or graduate students who are either presently in school or have graduated within the last year. The cases shall be reviewed by NACRA members who will select the best cases to be considered for the award, and a three-person committee appointed by the President-Elect of NACRA shall oversee judging of the winning case. A maximum of six cases adjudged by the initial reviewers to be of a quality suitable to be presented to the judges will be invited to present their cases and instructor’s manual at a forum set up by NACRA during their annual meeting. Cases and instructor’s manuals should be submitted to the NACRA.net website. In order to access the instructions to authors, click on “Annual Meeting” and then “Author Instructions.”

Each case submitted should have a faculty sponsor who will guide the students in developing the case according to the format for cases and instructor’s manuals established by NACRA; however, the faculty sponsor must not be involved in the writing of the cases. Contact Dr. Marlene Reed for more information. Marlene_Reed@baylor.edu

At least one student author for a case should register for and attend the NACRA 2016 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada in order to be eligible for prizes.