Holcim CSR Case Study Competition 2011

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Have you ever heard of Corporate Social Responsibility? Are you passionate about not only doing business but also dong good at the same time? Do you believe that being socially responsible and sustainable is not only the good way but the right way to go? Here is the platform for you to express your ideas and challenge your mind.

The CSR Case Study Competition is BACK!

*open to NUS, NTU and SMU undergraduates from all faculties and years

This time, we will be partnering with Holcim Singapore, a global manufacturing giant which has achieved the best SUSTAINABILITY performance in the building material industry for 4 consecutive years! Find out more about Holcim at http://www.holcim.com/.

For the case study of Holcim Singapore, you will need to make use of your Research Skills to gather all useful information available, be it from the website, the library, the newspapers, etc.

Supplementary material kindly offered by Holcim Singapore will also be made available to those who have registered for the competition. A great opportunity to get an insider look!

Attractive cash prize will be awarded

1st prize $500   2nd prize $300    3rd prize $100

Plus an Opportunity to present your ideas to Holcim Management if you enter the final round!

Format:

You will be able to participate in this competition in teams of 1-3 people.

For the preliminary round, a 3-5 pages report (excluding cover page, content page and appendix) with reasonable fonts and spacing need to submitted as a group. Use your creativity as there is no restriction on formatting. Regardless of the presentation, the report should cover the following issues:

1)      What is your understanding of CSR and role of CSR in business today?

2)      Overview of Holcim CSR strategies

3)      Evaluation of Holcim current strategies and suggest improvements

E.g. Do the initiatives achieve its social goal? Do they add value to the business of the company? What had gone wrong/ineffective? What could/should be done instead?

*no need to comment on all initiatives

4)      Proposal of new and creative initiatives

E.g. How is it different from the current initiative? Is there a need for such initiative? How does it help both the community and Holcim?

The report should be evaluative, rather than descriptive in nature. Holcim is looking for depth of analysis and proposal of improvements/new ideas. You may want to focus on local initiatives while maintaining an overview of Holcim’s global strategy.

The top 5 teams will be selected after the preliminary round. They will then be required to make formal presentation on their ideas to Holcim Management to compete for the top 3 positions.

Registration for the competition:

The submission deadline for the report is 2nd Oct 2011, 2400Hr.

If interested, please register by 25th Sep 2011 here.

*For teams with more than one members, each member will need to register separately first.

*Interested students are highly encouraged to register as early as possible as the supplementary case study material offered by Holcim Singapore and subsequent updates will only be sent to those who have registered for the competition.

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