John Molson MBA students win Whitman Case Competition

For the second time in three years, MBA students from the John Molson School of Business have won the Whitman Case Competition, hosted by the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.

Fourteen teams participated in the two-day event that was held in partnership with a local charity called Planting Pencils. The competition registration fees were donated to the organization whose goal is “to raise awareness that every child in the world has a right to basic, free, quality education and to give support to underfunded schools in low-income areas in the US and underdeveloped countries where many children have no access or limited access to basic education.”

This year’s business case subject was 3M. Participants were asked to provide strategic recommendations that optimized plant operations and supply chain management. MBA students Samie Li Shang Ly and Nadim Shamseddine comprised the winning team. A second Concordia team was made up of Ali Haidar and Lissette Vela. Both teams were coached by alumnus Stavros Athanasoulias.

The victory is just one several impressive recent showings by the MBA Case Competition Club, a student-run group, overseen by Faculty Advisor, Tim Field, a senior lecturer in the Department of Management.

In March, MBA students finished in both second and third-place at Université de Montréal’s HEC Sustainability Challenge, and earlier in the year one of the club’s teams finished second and garnered the Best Presenter Award at the Family Enterprise Case Competition, hosted by the University of Vermont.