Johnson Wins CMU Finance Case Competition
Ralph Leung
Issue date: 4/8/06 Section: Johnson News
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A team from the Johnson School won the 14th annual Corporate Finance Case Competition, which was held at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University on February 24 - 25, 2006. The team featured second year MBA students, Archil Gachechiladze, Kiran Prasad, Ralph Leung, and Sendur Sellakumar, and first year MBA student Justin Charise. This is the first time that the Johnson School has won this case competition.
Representatives from the nation's top business schools, including the Stern School of Business at New York University, the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and the Tepper School of Business competed. This event is unique in that it is the only finance case competition open to students from outside the host business school and covered topics such as valuation, M&A, bankruptcy, dividend policy and capital budgeting.
In shifts beginning at 7 a.m. on Saturday, teams were given a six-hour time allocation to create a solution to a case. Each team was asked to recommend a financing strategy for an aluminum production project in the Middle East and deliver a 20 minute presentation to a panel of judges. Teams were evaluated according to their quality of analysis, professionalism of presentation, and responsiveness to the judges' questions and comments. The judging panel included business school faculty members, Rebecca Zarutskie (Assistant Professor of Finance at Duke), Yanjy Grinstein (Assistant Professor of Finance), and Clifford H. Whitcomb (Faculty Fellow at Cornell), and Robert Dammon (Professor of Financial Economics at Carnegie Mellon). Also judging was Brian Byala (Assistant Treasurer for Pfizer Inc.)
Representatives from the nation's top business schools, including the Stern School of Business at New York University, the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and the Tepper School of Business competed. This event is unique in that it is the only finance case competition open to students from outside the host business school and covered topics such as valuation, M&A, bankruptcy, dividend policy and capital budgeting.
In shifts beginning at 7 a.m. on Saturday, teams were given a six-hour time allocation to create a solution to a case. Each team was asked to recommend a financing strategy for an aluminum production project in the Middle East and deliver a 20 minute presentation to a panel of judges. Teams were evaluated according to their quality of analysis, professionalism of presentation, and responsiveness to the judges' questions and comments. The judging panel included business school faculty members, Rebecca Zarutskie (Assistant Professor of Finance at Duke), Yanjy Grinstein (Assistant Professor of Finance), and Clifford H. Whitcomb (Faculty Fellow at Cornell), and Robert Dammon (Professor of Financial Economics at Carnegie Mellon). Also judging was Brian Byala (Assistant Treasurer for Pfizer Inc.)
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