Managers of the Future Challenge
Help us imagine tomorrow’s markets
The language of the challenge will be Spanish.
What will the markets look like when you enter the working world? How will companies have changed, what will be the challenges, and what kind of managers will be needed to solve them? Join the Managers of the Future Challenge and share your ideas on what the world of business and marketing will look like in a few years' time. Issues such as technology, pandemics, capital markets, and the supply crisis are revolutionising several sectors and we want you to share your vision of the possible realities: what products will we buy, how will we pay, and how will we use them?
Sign up for a challenge full of counter-intuitive ideas and new management concepts, surprise us with your proposals and win the prize!
Challenge Keypoints
Days
2 & 3 February
Hours
Friday 2 from 16:00 h to 20:00 h
Saturday 3 from 16:00 h to 20:00 h
Format
Online
This is the Managers of the Future Challenge
1. Initial challenges
During the challenge, you and your teammates must solve various challenges set for you on the first day. The challenges will propose new scenarios. You will learn fresh business concepts and see that things are not always what they seem, and sometimes the most counterintuitive ideas are the most successful.
2. Final challenge
Once you have completed the initial challenges, you will be given a final challenge. You must solve this challenge and present your conclusions and proposals in a video to be handed in on Saturday before 2 pm.
In all the challenges you will work as a team, and you will have the help of a mentor who will accompany you throughout the process.
Participants
- High school students starting university in 2024 and in 2025
Teams
- Each team will have 3 or 4 members.
- Individuals who register alone or in groups of two will be assigned to a team.
- Each team member will have to register individually.
Prizes
There will be one winning team and two types of prizes (depending on the school year):
High school students starting university in 2025
- One free place at the 2024 Esade Summer School.
- Free access to the Esade degree admissions test.
High school students starting university in 2024
- Free access to the Esade degree admissions test.
- Rebate of 25% on the tuition fee for the first year of your degree course.
*The rebate of 100% applies solely to your program fees. It does not apply to any additional, voluntary expenses or to lodging or travel-related costs (if applicable).
**Participants who are already admitted to one of our degrees and have previously obtained an award for academic excellence are eligible for the challenge award providing the total rebate does not exceed 50% of the first year's tuition fees.
Lecturers and collaborators/mentors
Carles Torrecilla
Carles Torrecilla is a marketing lecturer at Esade. The realities of his professional life and his classes at Esade have merged: in his businesses he applies the concepts he explains in class and, in turn, in class he explains his business experiences. He will accompany you during this Challenge and explain how he is inspired to imagine his companies.
Students and current members of the associations
ENNOVA, ESTALENT and Empresa y Societat.
A successful first edition of the Managers of the Future Challenge
Teamwork, a business vision, an entrepreneurial mindset… 44 participants in this Challenge applied these and other skills to convince the jury that their business focuses merited recognition and a spot in our Summer School.
