Global Management Challenge
The Global Management Challenge is the world's largest strategic business competition
Since 1980, it has been key in helping the world's premier recruiters identify future talent, with over 375,000 contestants since the competition began. This year, over 19,000 competitors from 28 countries will take part.
GMC at a glance…
- Virtual business game, played by teams from the top twenty universities and beyond
- Over 19,000 students taking part this year worldwide, 1,300 from the UK
- Prizes for the top teams and a trip to the international final in Lisbon
- Engage with students in a new environment
- Invest in tomorrow’s leaders
How does the competition work?
Students enter the GMC in university teams of three to five, with each team running a virtual business. At the heart of the GMC is a sophisticated business simulator, constantly updated to remain ahead of management trends.
The teams make decisions which affect every area of their virtual business, from R&D and production to sales and environmental concerns. They also have to deal with real-life scenarios such as computer bugs, currency fluctuations and terrorist attacks. The aim is to finish the game with the highest price on the virtual stock exchange.
The competitors
- Penultimate- and final-year students from all degree disciplines, in particular business and management, economics and finance, engineering, and mathematics
- Self-motivated students who want to meet top employers, gain commercial awareness and develop their soft skills
Benefits for business
Involvement in the GMC will attract the best and brightest students to your organisation, with the following benefits:
- access to a direct recruitment channel
- branding and direct marketing – be part of the huge buzz on campus
- invest in young people’s skills
- develop relationships with HE institutions
- PR and media coverage.
'Everyone benefits - applicants from coaching and mentoring, our associates from developing new skills and our organisation from raising its profile amongst a highly relevant candidate pool'
Sophie Best, Graduate Recruitment Manager, Watson Wyatt
'Twenty per cent of our entire annual graduate intake comes directly from participation in the GMC'
Jose Galamba de Oliveira, President of Accenture Portugal
For more information please contact:
James Steiger// Sales Manager
Tel: 020 7958 5057
E-mail James Steiger
Collete Fardoe// Student Marketing Manager
Tel: 020 7958 5015
E-mail Collete Fardoe
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Team supporter
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Team sponsor
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What our clients say
Watson Wyatt, one of the GMC's biggest sponsors, mentored seven teams through the game. Of these teams, two reached the UK final. Watson Wyatt have found the mentoring scheme rewarding and feel it will help the mentors' future professional development. More//
The student experience
'The experience has been a fantastic learning curve for us - we are all engineering students, so the GMC is the only exposure to business we have had'. Read about what this year's teams thought about the competition.
Latest news
Team UK compete in the International Final in Macau, China. More//
Team Invincible win the GMC National Final on 13 March 2007. More//
The GMC UK National Final is to take place on 13 March at the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants' London headquarters. More//
The GMC UK finalists are announced! More//
Read about the GMC national launch day. More//
Global recruiters
Find out why leading recruiters around the world are using the GMC to connect with the right students. More//