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CoreNet Global Academic Challenge
Your ideas could earn you world travel and global networking with the greatest minds in corporate real estate.
We invite students from around the world to think creatively about a problem facing real estate professionals for renowned companies like Google, Duke Energy, AstraZeneca, Whirlpool, and many others. Challenge your mind power by competing with your peers from around the world. Gain international experience. Connect with experts. Win US $5,000 for your team.
You and your teammates will engage in a contest with competing institutions from all over the globe. Your job is to address challenges like creating an employee experience that attracts millennials while retaining all other generations of employees; or reducing the gap between the speed of business and the typical speed of real estate.
Budding professionals welcome! We’re seeking your ingenuity and creativity. The competition is open to all students (undergraduate/graduate, full-time/part-time) who are currently registered at a recognized university. All past Academic Challenge presentations are viewable in the online Knowledge Center.
All competitions are open to students from all over the world; there is no registration fee.
- Academic Challenge 6.0
- Academic Challenge 5.0
- Academic Challenge 4.0
- Academic Challenge 3.0
- Academic Challenge 2.0
- Academic Challenge 1.0
Student teams from universities and academic institutions around the world are invited to compete in an academic challenge in which students will be asked to play the role of an internal corporate real estate team in order to address a real-world issue facing companies around the globe:
Create strategies that align their company’s global real estate portfolio with a focus on environmental stewardship in a post-pandemic culture. Specifically, your team must develop a proactive strategy that identifies the aspects of the company’s global real estate portfolio which contribute to climate change and prepare strategies to mitigate and replace them.
How can corporate real estate professionals take a leadership role in helping their companies solve what is becoming an existential crisis? Will there be a lasting impact of the COVID-19 lockdown and forthcoming health and safety protocols and practices on the environment and climate change?
2021 Virtual Competition - Finalists to be announced 27 January
- Read the competition brief (PDF)
CoreNet Global is grateful to Cushman & Wakefield, KI, and IA: Interior Architects for their support of this important program:
Student teams from universities and academic institutions around the world are invited to compete in an academic challenge in which students will be asked to play the role of an internal corporate real estate team in order to address a real-world issue facing companies around the globe:
develop a proactive strategy to: (a) “Recession-proof”, to the extent possible, the corporate real estate portfolio, (b) continue to support the business objectives of the corporation and (c) ensure that such a strategy does not negatively impact the company in the unlikely event that a recession does not materialize.
Virtual Competition winner: TU Delft!
- Read the Singapore Academic Challenge Competition Brief (PDF)
- Watch the final presentations here.
Virtual finalists:
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Delft University of Technology
University of Sydney
Orange County winner: Vanderbilt University!
- Read the Orange County Academic Challenge Brief (PDF)
Orange County finalists:
Breda University of Applied Sciences
Vanderbilt University
University of Washington
CoreNet Global is grateful to Cushman & Wakefield, KI, and IA: Interior Architects for their sponsorship of this important program.
Student teams from universities and academic institutions around the world are invited to compete in an academic challenge in which students will be asked to play the role of an internal corporate real estate team in order to address a real-world issue facing companies around the globe:
Identify the potential technology disruptors your team believes are most likely to impact your client’s global corporate real estate footprint. Then, create short-term and long-term strategies that put corporate real estate at the forefront of technological innovation – and enable business success.
Hong Kong winner: University of Melbourne!
- Read the Hong Kong Academic Challenge Brief (PDF)
Hong Kong finalists:
National University of Singapore
University of Illinois
The University of Melbourne
Boston winner: National University of Singapore!
- Read the Boston Academic Challenge Brief (PDF)
Boston finalists:
National University of Singapore
Temple University
University of South Carolina
CoreNet Global is grateful to Cushman & Wakefield and KI for their sponsorship of this important program.
Student teams from universities and academic institutions around the world are invited to compete in an academic challenge in which students will be asked to play the role of an internal corporate real estate team in order to address a real-world issue facing companies around the globe:
How to reduce risk in a company’s worldwide physical footprint (i.e., real estate portfolio) and thereby reduce overall risk exposure to the corporation.
Singapore winner: Georgia Institute of Technology!
- Read the Singapore Academic Challenge Brief (PDF)
Singapore finalists:
Georgia Institute of Technology
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
National University of Singapore
Seattle, WA winner: Emory University!
- Read the Seattle Academic Challenge Brief (PDF)
Seattle finalists:
Columbia University
Delft University of Technology
Emory University
CoreNet Global is grateful to Cushman & Wakefield and KI for their sponsorship of this important program.
Student teams from universities and academic institutions around the world are invited to compete in an academic challenge in which students will be asked to play the role of an internal corporate real estate team in order to address a real-world issue facing companies around the globe:
How to attract, retain, and motivate the next generation of knowledge workers.
Shanghai winner: University of Cincinnati!
- UC Lindner Team Wins Global Case Competition in Shanghai, China
- Read the Shanghai Academic Challenge Brief (PDF)
Shanghai finalists:
Georgia Institute of Technology
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
University of Cincinnati
Philadelphia winner: University of Illinois!
- Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Talent
- Student Team from University of Illinois Wins Global Competition to Address Challenges
- Read the Philadelphia Competition Brief (PDF)
Philadelphia finalists:
Eindhoven University of Technology
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
University of Huston
University of Illinois
CoreNet Global is grateful to Cushman & Wakefield for their sponsorship of this important program.
Student teams from universities and academic institutions around the world are invited to compete in an academic challenge in which students will be asked to play the role of an internal corporate real estate team in order to address a real-world issue facing companies around the globe:
Determine how to close the gap between the speed of real estate and the speed of business — all within the context of an uncertain global environment. Provide a strategic solution that optimizes a corporate real estate portfolio and positions the corporation for the greatest flexibility and success.
Los Angeles winner: Tsinghua University!
Los Angeles finalists:
Arizona State University
Tsinghua University
University of Nottingham, Malaysia
CoreNet Global is grateful to Cushman & Wakefield for their sponsorship of this important program.