Best Prize Giveway Rules and Regulations

IBC 2011 is proud to announce the 2011 Best Question Prize Giveaway!  We have 2 Kindles and a Wii Console System in our possession, which will be awarded to the 3 students who ask the best questions at ANY panel at the conference.

In order to qualify for and win these prizes, please refer to the following rules of the Best Question Prize Giveaway.

1.    Prizes shall be awarded to students enrolled in any academic program or discipline within the University of Michigan at either the graduate or undergraduate level.

2.    In order to qualify for the Best Question Prize Giveaway the student must be registered for IBC 2011 by Friday, October 7^th, 2011. Free electronic registration for the conference ends at 10 p.m. on October 6^th, 2011. In-person registration at the Ross Business School on October 7^th, 2011 costs $10.

3.    A student may submit as many questions as he or she wishes at any of the panels which will take place during the conference from October 7-8, 2011. For a list of panels, please refer to our conference schedule.

4.    To win, you must ask your question in-person during the panel. We will not accept questions asked over email, text or on our blog.

5.    You can only win once and for one of your questions. 

6.    Winning questions can be asked at any of the panels. Prizes are not assigned to particular panels. Accordingly, attending the entirety of the conference increases your chance of winning a prize.

7.    The 3 winning questions will be chosen by Professor M.S. Krishnan, Faculty Advisor to the IBC 2011 Board. The winners will be announced on [insert date].

8.    IBC 2011 will assign a staff member to record all questions asked during a panel. The staff member will announce himself or herself at the beginning of the panel.

9.    It is your responsibility to contact the staff member/recorder following the panel in order to provide him or her with your full name, academic program and contact information. If you do not take this step we have no way of locating you and will award a prize to the next best question asked during the panel.

10. When you ask your question during the panel, please consider our suggested script below. Following this format when asking your question will increase the efficiency of our staff in properly recording your question during the panel and provide him or her with some context when you follow up with your contact information after the panel. Again, it is your responsibility to contact our staff to provide us with your contact information.

Hi, my name is ________ from the __________ school at the University of Michigan. My question is _______________________.

As for this blog, we’re pleased to let you know that you won’t be hearing from us directly. Mostly because we’ll be hard at work nailing down final details in the weeks leading up to the conference, but also because we thought it would be pretty boring since we designed the entirety of this website. Instead, we thought it would be far more interesting to let attendees, alumni and students speak for themselves. In the coming weeks we’ll be updating this space with guest blogs and interviews from past and present participants so you can get a glimpse of both IBC and the University of Michigan community.

Thanks for reading, and stay tuned!

Go Blue!

Ross IBC 2011 Organizing Committee