CoreNet Global 2018-19 Academic Challenge
CoreNet Global (www.corenetglobal.org), the world’s leading association for corporate real estate, is launching its 2018-19 Academic Challenge sponsored by Cushman & Wakefield and KI Furniture for FBE UG non-final year students.
About CoreNet Global
CoreNet Global is a nonprofit association, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia (US), representing nearly 11,000 executives in 50 countries with strategic responsibility for the real estate assets of primarily large, multinational corporations. The end user membership base is diverse and spans industries including high-tech, financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, healthcare, insurance and oil and gas. Google, Unilever, International Monetary Fund, Oracle, Coca-Cola, Amazon, AT&T, General Motors, Barclays, BASF, and Shell are among the association’s many member companies. One third of its membership resides outside North America (primarily Europe, China, India, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and the Middle East) with most members managing portfolios with millions of square feet spanning multiple continents.
About the Challenge
The goal of the 2018-19 Academic Challenge is to raise awareness of corporate real estate as a viable career opportunity amongst college students of all academic disciplines, to connect local chapters and members of the association with future talent, and encourage more universities to include corporate real estate in their curricula.
Student teams from universities and academic institutions around the world are invited to compete in an academic challenge whereby students will be asked to play the role of consultants in order to address a real-world issue facing companies around the globe: Identify the potential technology disruptors most likely to impact your client’s global corporate real estate footprint and create short-term and long-term strategies that put corporate real estate at the forefront of technological innovation – and enable business success.
Three teams, with 2 - 4 students each, will be selected to compete onsite at the CoreNet Global North American Summit, a professional conference for 3,000+ corporate real estate professionals from around the world, to be held in Boston, MA, October 14 - 17, 2018. Interested students should form into teams and register here on or before August 17, 2018 (Friday). Based on the quality of their submission, three teams will be invited to participate in the Boston Finals.
The winning team will be awarded US$5,000.
For more information regarding the competition, please refer to the Academic Challenge Brief HERE or the competition website here.
Remark: In case if any teams enter the Boston Finals which will be held in October 14 – 17, 2018, all team members need to apply for Leave of Absence via the Faculty Office. Students will be responsible for their own safety while outside Hong Kong, bear all expenses related to the trip (including visa application to the U.S. if necessary) as well as arrange and pay for their own insurance which covers the whole period of stay in the U.S.. Our Faculty will not be responsible for any expenses incurred in this competition as well as the overseas trip.