Turning Point

A Business Consulting Competition where your creative business idea can be applied to the real world. 

Competition Context

In the Turning Point competition, you are a visionary team in a business consultant firm. Your team decided to stand out against other teams for fame, wealth, and promotion opportunities. Now, your team must do the following:

• Research to find an industry, a firm to "take down," and a firm to "support"

• Analyze the industry and the firms' financial position

• Devise a product (e.g. goods, service, or system) for the supporting firm

• Present your work 

When deciding industry, target firm, or supporting firm, participants may research on their own or utilize the firm list. The provided firm list is not highly recommended to use. 

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Takeaways for Participants

1. Workshops hosted by P.O offers participants to...​​

   1. understand financial statements in perspective of both the firm and investor​
   2. learn how to analyze financial statements
   3. learn how to write a simplified sell-side report based on SWOT analysis
   4. learn how to utilize analysis of financial statements in business idea proposal
   5. find entrepreneurship hidden in them

2. ​Turning Point Competition offers...

   1. teams with brilliant work to attempt actual contact with the firm they supported

   2. top winning teams to receive awards & prize money

   3. non-highschool students of top winning teams gets to participate in the Game Changer Competition

   4. participants to prepare for the Game Changer Competition

   5. networking opportunities

Competition Description

The competition revolves around selecting a leading firm within a specific industry, termed the "target firm," and identifying a "supporting firm" to compete against it. Participants will delve deep into both firms, conducting comprehensive research to understand their market position, financial performance, and competitive advantages. Then, participants must come up with a business idea for the supporting firm, based on their analysis. At the end, each team of participants writes an analysis report on firms they researched, compose a proposal document for a product, presents their work, and be graded based on a grading criteria available to all the visitors of the P.O website.

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Students at any age level may participate in the competition. Students must form a team of 3 students at minimum. A maximum number of members in a single team is 5 students. Students can select a team member from another school or region.