Marketing Minds: Live industry challenge

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Introducing the Marketing Minds challenge

The Marketing Minds: Live Industry Challenge invites your pupils to step into the role of a marketing professional for a day. Working on a live Disney brief, students will explore how brands respond to changing consumer behaviour, digital innovation and competitive pressures, before developing and pitching their ideas in a short PowerPoint presentation to an academic marketing panel. This challenge follows the Harvard Business School case study approach. The Disney brief centres on a current challenge facing the brand’s international retail and merchandise business. The student teams will be mentored by a team of academics and student ambassadors as they prepare their pitches.

Structure of the day

The event combines an interactive lecture, campus experience, lunch and a team challenge to offer a realistic and engaging insight into studying Marketing at ¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½. The day concludes with the award of the Marketing Minds Award 2026, recognising standout teamwork, creativity and insight. All participants will receive a certificate to support their personal statements and future university applications.

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