Zurich Enterprise Challenge 2022

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.