Accenture B-School Challenge Season 9
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Accenture B-School Challenge Season 9: Stages and Timelines
Preliminary Quiz
Get ready for an immersive quiz that challenges your analytical thinking, business acumen, and problem-solving skills. Every question has a clear right answer—this is where logic beats guesswork.
- Questions are designed to reflect real-world business scenarios.
- All members are required to take the quiz. Your team’s score will be the average of all individual scores from team members who complete the quiz.
Online Simulation
In this round, you'll be working as a consultant on the problem statement assignment given to you as part of the consulting project. You will have limited resources at every stage of this project. Your first step will be to frame the task for yourself, which essentially means that you need to select a few topics that you think, if investigated further, will help you move towards your final recommendation for the assignment. The next step is to dive deep into the selected domains by seeking answers to some key questions in each one of them. Again, as you work with restrictions, you can select only a few questions from an exhaustive list. Hence, you need to prudently choose the questions that you need answers to. Plus, you'll only see questions for the topics that should have been selected as per the game. Hence, if you have selected any topic that is not relevant to your assignment in the first step, the system won't show you questions about it. Finally, based on the information gathered from the above two steps, you make your final recommendation.
Case Submission and Presentation
The top 10 teams from each campus will choose one case study from 8 key industries: Capital Markets, Insurance, Consumer Goods & Services, Automotive, Hi-Tech, Public Services, Chemical & Natural Resources, and Utilities.
- Submit your solution as a presentation (max 7 slides), including the intro and annexure.
- Minimum font size: 12
Pick your industry, crack the case, and showcase your strategy! Click on the submit button to view the case studies.
Team Showcase Challenge
Showcase your team spirit by posting a LinkedIn introduction using the shared template and a behind-the-scenes glimpse of your case prep. Tag @Accenture in India and use #AccentureBschoolChallengeSeason9. Top 3 creative entries win exciting vouchers!
Masterclass & Storytelling Session
Teams shortlisted for Round 3 will unlock access to exclusive storytelling workshops and an industry-specific masterclass led by industry experts.
What’s in it for you?
- Learn how to craft powerful narratives that make your ideas stand out.
- Deep dive into industry trends to sharpen your approach.
- Get expert guidance to refine your case study and build a winning pitch.
Mentorship Session
Each team qualified for the grand finale will be allocated a mentor from Accenture to help them prepare for the final round.
Grand Finale
The top 8 teams from across campuses will battle it out in the ultimate case study challenge. This is your moment to pitch your boldest business idea to a jury of Accenture leaders. Impress the best and make your mark.
All that you need to know about Accenture B-School Challenge Season 9
Think you’ve got what it takes to lead the AI revolution?
Welcome to Accenture B-School Challenge Season 9, your chance to step into the world of business consulting, solve real problems, and help companies reinvent how they work, all while having serious fun.
This year, the challenge is themed as Driving Process Reinvention for Enterprises through Agentic AI. Using Agentic AI as a catalyst, enterprises can redesign processes to be more efficient, data-driven, and adaptive while scaling innovation across the organization. This challenge will immerse you in the consulting mindset, where you will learn to map value frontiers, reconfigure value chains, and shape strategies for tomorrow’s enterprises.
Get ready to play the part of a CEO, consultant, or strategist in high-stakes simulations. Work in teams, crack challenges, and pitch bold ideas. Through exclusive workshops with Accenture’s top minds, you’ll learn how to tell powerful stories, shape AI-driven solutions, and think like a real consultant.
Why should you care about Agentic AI? Because it's the tech that is rewriting the rules. It’s helping companies move faster, work smarter, and create experiences we’ve never seen before.
If you're curious, competitive, and ready to shake things up, this is your moment. Reinvention starts here. Want a head start? Dive into our latest research and see what the future holds: Click Here
Why should you join?
- Bring your boldest ideas to life and show off your consulting chops.
- Crack real business challenges that test your creativity, logic, and leadership.
- Level up with mentorship sessions led by industry experts- learn what textbooks don’t
teach. - Connect with Accenture leaders and top talent from campuses across the country.
- Compete for epic rewards- national winners, runners-up, and second runners-up stand a chance to win Pre-Placement Interviews (PPIs) and exciting prizes.
- So, gather your dream team, sharpen that elevator pitch, and pitch your game-changing ideas.
This is your shot at the winner’s trophy, ready to take it? Register Now!
Eligibility & Team Rules:
- Register your four-member team from your campus today
- Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation: As part of our talent strategy, we encourage registrations from those who have different backgrounds, different perspectives, and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of Perspectives, observations, and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent.
- Both-year students pursuing the flagship full-time, two-year MBA program can apply.
- Late or incorrect submissions will not be considered.
- Accenture has the sole discretion to allow or deny participation.
- Cross-year team formation is welcomed. (e.g., a mix of first-year and second-year
students)
The contest is open only to participants from:
- Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi, New Delhi
- Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Mumbai
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Udaipur
- Indian School of Business (ISB) (Both one - year and two - year management program students from ISB are eligible to apply)
- Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai
- Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon
- S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
- Xavier School of Management (XLRI)
Terms & Conditions: Profile verification may happen at any stage of the competition. If found ineligible or non-compliant with rules/regulations, the team may be disqualified.
Seize this opportunity to build a rewarding and fulfilling career in consulting. Register now!
Important dates & deadlines?
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22 Jul'25, 11:59 PM IST Registration Deadline
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Rewards and Prizes?
National Winners, Runners-Up and Second Runners-Up
National Winners, Runners-Up and Second Runners-Up will stand a chance to win PPI and exciting prizes.
Campus Winners
The top three teams of each campus from round three will stand to win vouchers and PPIs.