2021-1b Alibaba Special Track

Schedule

All deadlines are at 11:59 pm EST time zone.
See the challenge instructions for each company for more information on what should be included in the weekly deliverables for each company.

#	Due Date	Task
1	Monday, March 1	Official Project Start, Teams Formed
2	Thursday, March 4	Establish Contact with Your Teammates
3	Sunday, March 7	Meet Your Teammates
4	Sunday, March 14	Select Client Organization, Team Charter
5	Sunday, March 21	Individual input
6	Sunday, March 28	Report Section 1
7	Sunday, April 4	Report Section 2
8	Sunday, April 11	Report Section 3
9	Sunday, April 18	Complete Draft of your team report
10	Friday, April 23	Final report
11	Sunday, April 25	Post-project survey

A special track co-managed by Alibaba Italy and School of Management Politecnico di Milano (SOM PoliMi). 16 companies that sell their products on AliExpress seek X-Culture’s help with developing a strategy for expanding into new markets. There will be only 16 teams (64 students) in this track, one team per company. The workload in this track will be a little higher than in the regular competition, including weekly meetings of the team representatives with Alibaba Italy and MPU. Only Master’s students are eligible to apply. If you are interested in being in the Alibaba special track, please indicate your interest in the Readiness Test.

The list of the 16 companies and the Challenge Instructions:

If you would like to learn more about some of the X-Culture’s research and business initiatives, this recent TEDx talk provides a good summary (YouTube )