Undergrads earn top honors in global strategy competition
May 2, 2008 - Students in Greg Young's section of Business Policy and Strategy (BUS 480) earned top strategy management honors in competition against 2,493 other student teams from colleges around the world.
Young, associate professor of Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, teaches the interactive class using "The Business Strategy Game" from McGraw-Hill Irwin."
“In eight simulated years of competition, teams of our Wolfpack students were ‘employed’ as senior managers of multinational athletic footwear companies, with decision making responsibility for plant operations, distribution and warehouse operations, work force compensation, online sales at the company’s web site, sales and marketing, and finance,” he said. “And they continue to delivery outstanding world-class performance.”
Leading teams in the spring 2008 semester are:
- David Mayo, Arti Patel, Maria Luz Rengifo, and Jeremiah Robinson, co-managers of Excellence Co.:
- third best Stock Price ($863.42) out of almost 2,500 teams competing worldwide
- fifth best Earnings Per Share ($34.51), and
- fifth best Return on Average Equity (63.9%).
- Matthew Adams, Brendan Byrnside, Davis Oswalt, and Daniel Rowland, co-managers of Ballin Athletics: eighth best Return on Average Equity (62.2%).
- Dawn Bonczewski and Leigh Hoakison, co-managers of Kool Kicks Inc.: 15th best Return on Average Equity (51.6%)
- Lauren Bucher, Dana Cipollini, Zach Murray, and Melissa Valder, co-managers of DuraTrek: 62nd best Return on Average Equity (37.0%)
In the fall 2007 semester, the college had two undergraduate sections of the class participate in the simulation.
“Out of almost 3,000 teams competing worldwide this past fall, our two sections of BUS 480 had 10 teams in the top 100, and one of our teams was number one in the world for Return on Equity.
The four members of that team were Lindsay Gilstrap, Patrick McEachern, Laura Michelle Sullivan and Thomas Thedieck.