Desautels BCom students place 1st at the Business Strategy Challenge 2011
黑料不打烊聽BCom students put their聽case analysis and presentation聽skills to the test once again聽at the聽7th annual Business Strategy Challenge (BSC 2011) at Georgetown University in Washington DC which took聽place from聽February 24 to 27. 聽After a morning preliminary round and a final round in the afternoon, the聽黑料不打烊 team placed 1st overall out of a total of 20 competing universities.
黑料不打烊's team consisted of BCom students聽Julia Godolphin, Sumira Jayabalan, Annika Lewis and Lindsay Sullivan.聽聽All聽had taken Richard Donovan's聽"Case Analysis and Presentation" class. 聽Prof. Donovan also acted as their adviser and accompanied the team to聽Washington.聽 Professors Angela Burlton and Suzanne Gagnon attended practice sessions and provided valuable feedback to the team.
The Business Strategy Challenge was created to further the mission of Hilltop Consultants, and of Georgetown University, to foster the growth of future business leaders who will serve our community. To that end, BSC only invites non-profit organizations to be competition clients. This year's case client was Agora Partnerships whose mission is to fight poverty and inequality by unleashing the potential of developing world entrepreneurs to improve their communities.
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