CM Student Team Named B-School Beanpot Finalists
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CM Students Finalists in B-School Beanpot |
College of Management (CM) undergraduate students, for the first time, participated in the B-School Beanpot CaseAnalysisCompetition. The competition, modeled on the hockey tournament, provides an opportunity for managementstudents to benchmark their skills against peers and the expectations of the corporate community. One of the two CM teams placed fourth overall. This is the first time a team new to the competition, was named a finalist. CM competing teams were finalists Glenn Natali, Sandy Kiriakidis, Elena Asllani, Linda Chu, and Saida Abdalla, who shared the $250.00 prize. The other CM team included Jeff Masse, Daria Tremoularis, Yelena Bryant, Hassan Bammi, and Jemin Patel. The College of Management is very proud of its students, and also of faculty coach and assistant professor Theodora Welch and Amy Mei, CM undergraduate program director, who worked with the students to prepare for the competition.
During the preliminary round of the B-School Beanpot, two teams from each school assume the role of consultants and develop their proposals for this year’s case. A panel of twelve corporate executives review the written analyses and decide which four teams to advance to the final round. The final four teams give a presentation to the judges in order to receive cash prizes, and the first-place team takes home the B-School Beanpot trophy. The other competing schools were Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern, Suffolk, Babson, Bentley (these six teams have been competing for years), Bryant College, Merrimack, and UMass Boston (the last three were new to the competition this year). A total of eighteen teams competed in this year’s Beanpot. The final results were: first place, Northeastern University; second place, Northeastern Universtiy; third place, Bentley College; and fourth Place, UMass Boston.
CM teams were selected just before fall final exams and then went on winter break. Most of the practice happened during the early weeks of the spring semester. The College of Management expects to compete in next year’s B-School Beanpot Case Competition. Visit http://bschoolbeanpot.com/ for more information about the program.