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Dear fellow Ychallengers, It has been raining heavily in Singapore yet the energy emitted from our discussions with new Ychallengers is more than able to counter balance the misty and moody atmosphere that the rain brings. And so, we’ve managed to meet half of potential new Ychallengers from very different backgrounds with diverse characteristics, leadership, working styles, and aspirations save a common thread: a vision to build a bridge between Vietnamese business and talented youth in Vietnam and beyond. Not to our surprise, many sessions have turned out to be more on how to make Ychallenge 2012 better rather than a ...

Ychallenge 2012 Fellowship Recruitment   Ychallenge  is  an  international business case competition targeting young talents in Singapore and Vietnam, with a vision to become a bridge between talented youth and the business community in Vietnam, and to create a conducive platform where like-minded individuals (regardless of locations, nationalities, or backgrounds) can network, share, and work together in the joint effort to strengthen Vietnamese business competitiveness in local and global market.  Ychallenge 2012 is the sequel of Ychallenge 2011, partnered with SMU Case Writing Initiative and NUS Business School, having attracted more than 550 participants and drew attentions from some of the most successful corporations in Vietnam: Dong A Bank, ...

Dear Ychallengers,   Christmas was around its corner with its loving warmth while we gathered on a sunny Sunday morning at 116-118 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai St. on the eighteen of December to be impressed by the short and sweet presentations from our 4 Champions and then engaged in the insightful and inspiring sharing from the passionate speakers during the panel discussion. Many people from different backgrounds and interests (business people, students, working professionals, media, families of contestants etc…) were there with us to share a vision – to build a playground and a lively connections between Vietnamese businesses and young talents ...

http://www.facebook.com/notes/vng-recruitment/th%E1%BB%AD-s%E1%BB%A9c-th%C3%AD-sinh-ychallenge-2011-v%E1%BB%9Bi-case-study-vng-v%C3%A0-tham-gia-vng-tour/234189583321119   Thử sức thí sinh Ychallenge 2011 với case study VNG và tham gia VNG Tour by VNG Recruitment on Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 5:13pm ·   Với tư cách nhà tài trợ vàng của chương trình Ychallenge 2011, bên cạnh việc hỗ trợ kinh phí cho cuộc thi, VNG còn là một trong những doanh nghiệp đã đặt ra tình huống thử thách cho các thí sinh tại vòng 2 về chủ đề Zing Ad, và 2 đội VMA, Giành Chiến Thắng là những đội đã có ý tưởng độc đáo nhất, cũng như thể hiện xuất sắc nhất trong đề thi này. Bên cạnh ...

http://www.thanhnien.com.vn/pages/20111215/khoi-dong-vong-chung-ket-thach-thuc-tre-ychallenge-2011.aspx   Khởi động vòng chung kết “Thách thức trẻ Ychallenge 2011” 15/12/2011 12:18 (TNO) 8 đội xuất sắc nhất của Singapore, Hà Nội và TP.HCM sẽ tranh tài ở vòng chung kết “Thách thức trẻ Ychallenge năm 2011” tại TP.HCM vào ngày 18.12 tới.  >> Thi làm… bộ trưởng>> Sinh viên VN với biển, đảo quê hương>> Kết nối thông tin với thanh niên VN ở nước ngoài>> Trao giải cuộc thi sinh viên khởi nghiệp>> Sinh viên đọ sức  8 đội trên được tuyển chọn từ vòng sơ loại (tổ chức trực tuyến) và vòng bán kết diễn ra ở Singapore. Trong ngày 15.12, 24 gương mặt ...

After rounds and hours working with Ychallenge 2011 as an excellent Judge and Case Writer, Assoc. Prof. Adel Dimian has kindly accepted our invitation to be on Ychallenge’s Board of Advisors so as to travel with us in the long journey to come! http://yplatform.vn/ychallenge/advisors       Dr. Adel Dimian Associate Professor of Strategic Management (Practice), Singapore Management University Former Vice President, 3M Health Information Systems   Adel F Dimian is Practice Associate Professor of Management in the Lee Kong Chian School of Business. He recently joined SMU after serving nearly 19 years with 3M in varied and increasing responsibilities in technical and business management for worldwide.  A talented scientist he ...

Dear Ychallengers,   You may be wondering why we took so long to release this note… It is because it is so hard to announce that there will be only 8 teams to proceed to the final round after seeing all the hard work and efforts all teams put in during those hectic and stressful 24-hours at NUS Business School last weekend 03-04 December 2011   We understand there are still a lot of shortcomings that we need to take into consideration in order to make your experiences during 24-hour challenge more comfortable and memorable. Yet, we believe that you all have had a ...

Dear our beloved Ychallengers,   The Ychallenge has come over 1/3 of its journey, and we know that you have put a lot of efforts in joining with us from Preliminary Round.    With 135 Teams (close to 600 participants) our competition is probably the biggest & most competitive business case competition that I’ve ever known.   And as an organizers, we are very happy to have your team participation, and we believe that you deserve a big “pad” on your shoulder, and we hope that you have learned much since the beginning.   For the 20 Teams going to Semi-Final, congratulations! For the rest of the teams, we’re ...

Dear our anxious Ychallengers,   We’ll keep it really short and sweet this time as we know that you are all waiting for this moment! Let’s put our hands together to welcome ALL 20 TEAMS TO PROCEED TO 24-HOUR CHALLENGE 2011,to be held at NUS Business School, Singapore on the 3rd and 4th of December 2011!!!   20 SEMI-FINALISTS: (not according to any particular order)   1. Team UP, HCMC – Team leader: Vo Le Hoang Long   2. Team 4U, HCMC – Team leader: Lu Nguyen Phuc Thinh   3. Team POTATO, HCMC – Team leader: Nguyen Hoang Duong   4. Team AS ONE, HCMC – Team leader: Truong Minh Hieu   5. Team PUZZLE, HCMC – Team leader: Tran Thanh ...

Hi all Ychallengers!   We meet again 😉 As most of our contestants are busy “cracking” their heads with Prelim Case about ML1, we would like to share with you some information on the APA refrence style that we are using for our competition format. (Note: Ychallenge has its own writting format requirements but adopted the reference style from APA)   In a very short summary, APA reference style has following appearance:   1. This is how the citations look like in your content: “Prevalence rates of antenatal major and minor depression have been estimated in community-based studies to range from 7% to 15% of all pregnancies” (Grote, Swartz, Geibel & Zuckoff, 2009, para. 2). Or: Arnett (2000, ...

Dear Ychallengers,   Greetings from us again! We have been holding up our breadth (with much difficulty, perhaps, as we are too excited as well) not to reveal to you all the exciting “titbits” we have in store for you! Now is a few more days till the registration deadline and we think that it is high time we revealed … bit … by … bit (isn’t that makes the journey more … provocative?) what awaits you in the first round of challenges……   In the first wave, we will present to you one situation that faces the management of a business in Vietnam in their ...

Dear all Ychallenge participants,   Some of you may notice that we require you to submit your CV/Resume when register for our Competition. That’s a crucial step for us to shortlist all registrants for the Preliminary Round, help the individual registrants to form teams, match the teams with the suitable companies and bridge all to many career opportunities awaiting you during and after this event.   A large number of our participants are still studying and writing CV/Resume may not be familiar with them yet, therefore, in this Note-series I have collected some tips on how to write a resume for your reference.   Of course, ...

1. Ychallenge QC series, in brief, are organized in three waves, designed to challenge you in three different domains of interests.     2. What about the first wave? It’s simple, fast & easy, and close to our hearts because it challenges you to think about the years we grew up in Vietnam as well as the hard time we have been spending and maturing here in Singapore and then, the conclusion we can draw from these times… A promising and unique product/service from Vietnam to Singapore? Or an efficient business model from Singapore back to Vietnam? WHY NOT?     3. Who should participate? Hmm… if you are the one who ...

In short, Ychallenge 2011 is a business case competition. But beyond that, what really differentiates Ychallenge from other contests that you have known is the Vietnamese touch with Vietnamese companies joining in the case that we would like to emphasize. Through Ychallenge, we aim to provide a conducive platform for like-minded individuals to network, to share, to discuss and to work together toward a common goal, which is to enhance the competitiveness of Vietnamese firms on the global market.   The challenge goes like this:   Preliminary round: each team of 4 selects its favorite industry from a given list and do research on a given question. Within 8 days, 16 teams with the ...

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