Broad School Honors and Awards
MBA students take top honors in national case competitions
Two Broad School Full-Time MBA teams won first- and second-place prizes in national competitions that challenged them to find solutions to complicated business cases.
Winners of the 2005 Howard University Minority Supply Chain Management Case Competition were (from left) Max Estes, Greentown, Ind.; Sourish Sarkar, East Lansing, Mich.; Natalya Leahy, East Lansing, Mich.; and Jeneace Thrasher, Southfield, Mich. They are joined by Jeffery P. Bennet, vice president of logistics management at LMI Consulting (right).
Howard University Minority Supply Chain Management Case Competition
Four MBA students won a $6,000 first-place prize during the 2005 Howard University Minority Supply Chain Management Case Competition held in Washington, D.C.: Max Estes, Jeneace Thrasher, Natalya Leahy and Sourish Sarkar. The students were coached by David Closs, the John H. McConnell Chair in Marketing and Supply Chain Management, and Associate Professors Glenn Omura and Morgan Swink.
The competition involved a real-life consulting project – a virtual contact center for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) – for competition sponsor LMI Consulting. The students were charged with determining the most feasible, customer-oriented, low-risk, cost-efficient center, utilizing logistics, information technology, marketing, operations and human resource competencies. Citigroup and United Technologies sponsored the competition with LMI Consulting.
National Black MBA Competition
Winners of the National Black MBA Case Competition were (from left) Shigei Gebremedhin, Ithaca, N.Y.; Dara Hickman, Waterloo, Iowa; Coach Robert Wiseman, associate professor of Management; Carlos Johnson, Detroit, Mich.; and Marcus Jones, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Another MBA team won a second-place prize of $12,000 during the National Black MBA Case Competition held in San Diego, Calif.: Dara Hickman, Carlos Johnson, Marcus Jones and Shigei Gebremedhin. They were coached by Robert Wiseman, associate professor of Management; Glenn Omura, associate professor of Marketing and Supply Chain Management; Chris White, assistant professor of Marketing and Supply Chain Management; Tamer Cavusgil, the John William Byington Endowed Chair in Global Marketing; and Management faculty Kent Miller and William Roering.
The National Black MBA Competition, which focused on competition-sponsor DaimlerChrysler’s planned 2006 entry into China, involved developing a unique strategy that would position DaimlerChrysler for profitable entry into an extremely competitive and dynamic market.