Cases from Student Competition Award Contests

Each year, ABC sponsors a Student Competition Award.  In entering the contest, students submit a written response to a case scenario.  Each year features a different case scenario.

The case scenarios that have been developed each year for this award offer promising teaching resources for your class.  Please peruse these cases and consider them for teaching resources for your classes.

Listed below are the cases from previous years:

• 2020 -- On-Call Work Stress

• 2019 -- Qual Creations Point of Sale System

• 2018 -- A Turning Point for David: Writing an Email Message to Document a Performance Problem

• 2017 -- Linking In: Writing a Memo to Announce a LinkedIn Initiative

• 2016 -- What did IT Say? -- Dealing with a Vague Email Message 

• 2015 -- Turning Up the Heat on Wind River Farms: Writing a Bad-News Message

• 2014 -- (Please Don't) Reply All: Composing a Company-Wide Conduct for Email 

• 2012 -- Colonnade Hotel and Resort: Writing an Email Message to an Angry Customer (Video Included)

• 2011 -- Southern Life Insurance: Addressing the Sexual Harassment Problem

• 2010 -- Dawson & Engels: Writing a Refusal Memorandum to the Center for Non-Violence

• 2009 -- Memo to Fritz Geschwend: Requesting Funding to Improve Writing in a Logistics Company

• 2008 -- Developing a Communication Plan for Notifying Employees of Corporate Downsizing

• 2007 -- Developing a Communication Plan for a Research Facility 

• 2003 -- Custom Research Services: Turning Down the Mayor's Request to Hold a Fund-Raiser