The Case For Women - Case Study Competition
Emerald Publishing
📌About the Event
The Case for Women 2026 is a global case-writing competition by Emerald Publishing, in partnership with The Case for Women and Forté. The competition invites high-quality teaching cases that highlight the career success, leadership challenges, and decision-making journeys of women executives or entrepreneurs. It aims to improve women’s representation in business school case studies and classroom learning.
ℹ️Event Overview
- Competition type: Case-writing competition / teaching case competition.
- Primary focus: Cases with a strong female protagonist, especially a woman leader, executive, or entrepreneur.
- Mode of conduct: Online submission.
- Submission platform: Entries must be submitted through The CASE Journal on ScholarOne Manuscripts.
- Organizers/partners: Emerald Publishing, The Case for Women, and Forté.
- Publication opportunity: Winning and runner-up cases may be published in the Scopus-ranked The CASE Journal, subject to peer review.
- Who can participate: Single authors as well as groups of authors can submit. There are no stated limits on who can submit, and no gender-based restriction for authors.
📅Important Dates
- Competition status: Open.
- Submission deadline: 15 June 2026.
- Result date: Not updated yet, Keep an eye on official page.
- Prize payment timeline: Cash prizes are paid when the case is published in The CASE Journal or at the end of the second revision stage, if not published earlier.
➡️Rules & Regulations
- Case requirement : The case must be based on a real business situation. Should feature a female protagonist as the central decision-maker.
- Theme requirement : Case should highlight women’s leadership, career growth, business decisions, or entrepreneurial journey. Must include a clear management dilemma suitable for classroom discussion.
- Gender representation : Case should maintain a reasonable gender balance among characters.
- Submission requirement : Entries must include a case study, teaching note, title page, and consent to publish form. The submission must follow The CASE Journal author guidelines.
- Originality rule : The case must be original. Should not be published earlier or under review by another journal, publisher, or case center.
- Referencing rule : All secondary sources must be cited properly using the Harvard referencing style.
🏅 Prizes & Incentives
- Total prize fund: USD 9,500.
- 🥇Winner: USD 5,000.
- 🥈Second place: USD 3,000.
- 🥉Third place: USD 1,500.
- Publication benefit: Winner and runners-up can be published in The CASE Journal, subject to peer review.
- Additional opportunity: Non-winning submissions may also be considered for publication.
- Learning benefit: Participants can access Emerald’s case-writing resources, including guides on writing teaching cases and teaching notes.