Welcome to the MBA Case Competitons !

I thought this would be a great idea to get things rolling for our case competitions and hopefully get the word out for other competitions throughout the year and in the future. I am new to this thing, so I will try to post the case competiton views from the BIG 10 Competiton.


Here are the details:
This weekend Fisher's MBA Case team, coached by Marc Ankerman, won first place in the 2008 Big 10 MBA Case Competition. The winning team was comprised of first year MBA students: Sally Heckman, Travis Helm, Dan Larsen and Kimani Phifer. Second place was awarded to the team from Michigan State University's Eli Broad Graduate School of Management and third place to Purdue University's Krannert School of Management. In the final round, Travis Helm of Ohio State won best individual speaker and Todd Hagopian of Michigan State won best Q&A.

This year represented the 16th year of the Big 10 MBA Case Competition and 10 of the 11 schools in the Big 10 sent teams of first year MBA students to compete. Judging was conducted by a top-flight panel of business professionals, who generously gave of their time to prepare the case and to serve as judges. Our head judge was Diane Burton, the Fred Kayne Career Development Professor of Entrepreneurship from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and author of the case used in the competition.

Congratulations to all the teams team for terrific presentations and analysis. Thanks to all the coaches for providing great support, our judges for their time, dedication and wonderful interactions with each of the teams, and our student volunteers for making things run smoothly and making all feel welcome. Finally, special thanks to our case competition director/organizer, Ly Zamora, who did a superb job in creating an event that provided a memorable experience to everyone involved.

Karen

++++Competition results and other details are presented below+++++

The Big 10 MBA Case Competition is comprised of two rounds. In the first round, three sets of teams compete against one another with a winning team from each set progressing on to the final round. Best individual presenter and best individual Q&A winners are also selected from each of the three groups of teams.

This year's winners from the first round are as follows:

Best Presenters:
Raghavendra Ramesh Kulkarni, Purdue University
Elena Taylor, University of Wisconsin
Malini Venkatesh-Ratan, University of Iowa

Best Q&A:
Todd Hagopian, Michigan State University
Travis Helm, Ohio State University
Sneha Nair, University of Illinois

Judges:
Head Judge-M. Diane Burton - Fred Kayne Career Development Professor of Entrepreneurship, Sloan School, MIT
David Brownstein - Principal, UVG Ltd
Jann Buller - Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
Bill Burke - Senior VP Property and Casualty Insurance Operations, NationwideChip Chapman - President, The Knowledge Group
John DeLeo - Director Financial Systems, Exel
Johan Ferreira - Vice President, GSW WorldwideDennis Fisher - President/Founder, Rapid Mortgage Company
Bonnie Hohlbein - VP Finance Operations & Services, Cardinal Health
Tony Huckeby - Senior VP and Manager of International Services Group, The Huntington National BankTim Key - Vice President Corporate Market Research, Insights and Analytics, Nationwide Financial
Barbara Kunz - President Health and Life Sciences Global Business & SVP Battelle Memorial InstituteHildy McNulty - Director Reporting and Systems, Luxottica Retail
David Nickel - Leadership & Management Development, Goodyear & Lockheed Martin (retired)
Martyn Redgrave - Evecutive VP and Chief Administrative Office, Limited BrandsBill Sparks - President and COO, Greif (retired)
Steven Weber - Director Operational Excellent Deployment Leader, Cardinal Health
Ken Weixel - Managing Partner Providers Life Science and Health Care, Deloitte & Touche

Team Coaches:
Marc Ankerman, Ohio State
Bonnie Blake, Purdue
Keith Dayton, Indiana
Gabriel Hansen, Iowa
Nancy Mahon, Penn State
Kathryn Rybka, Illinois
Karryl Shaw, Michigan State
Teresa Sekine, Purdue

Fisher/OSU MBA Volunteers:

Ankit Mishra
Aziz Khan
Ben Hummel
Brian Beck
Carla Williams
Christina Deitch
Conrad Bowman
Curtis Gutter
David "Nathan" Walker
Edgard Zamora
Eric Marotta
Erol Aspromatis
Franco Merea
Jamie Levine
Jason Schroder
Kailas Joshi
Kumar Parekh
Kyle Patrick
Mandi Stowers
Meaghan Bird
Megan Glenn
Michal Szapiel
Sanam "Elika" Sadeghi
Shireesh Annam
Stephanie Heffron
Tom Dotson
Yuliy Muchnik
Yuqian "Oliver" Huang
Zakia El Omari
Case Competition Director/Organizer:
Ly Zamora, Fisher/OSU, MBA 2008

Abbreviated History of Big 10 Case Competition Winners:
Year: First, Second, Third
2008: Ohio State, Michigan State, Purdue
2007: Indiana, Michigan State, Penn State
2006: Ohio State, Illinois, Minnesota
2005: Penn State, Ohio State, Wisconsin
2004: Michigan State, Minnesota, Wisconsin
2003: Indiana, Wisconsin, Purdue
2002: Michigan State, Illinois, Wisconsin
2001: Penn State, Michigan, Iowa
2000: Indiana, Penn State, no third place