MBA Students Place Top Ten in Global Business Competition

April 25, 2016

6 College of Business and Public Policy MBA students from 3 teams finished in the top 10 of 520 MBA teams competing from around the world in the Capstone Business Competition.

The Capstone Business Competition is an ongoing challenge (and the focus of the graduate MBA course BA686-Management Simulation) -- wherein student teams from universities around the world act as executive groups that run their own virtual company and make decisions that effect marketing, finance, human resources, production, product development, product positioning and ultimate sales, production efficiencies and profitability.

The Teams

Louis Ullrich and Damon Darby — Louis Ullrich & Damon Darby : The Digby Team/ finishing 1st in ROA, 4th in profit, 8th cum profit, 5th ROE, 4th ROS, 5th in Stock Price

Jarod Hoogland and Yuqi Wang — Jarod Hoogland & Yuqi Wang:-- : The Erie Team/ 3rd in profit, 9th cum profit 8th in ROS, 6th in ROA

Alicia Budahl & Jessica Rock (not pictured): The Ferris Team/ 4th in Asset Turnover

Profit
	Professor	School/Course	Simid	Team	Value
1	Lionel Valenzuela	Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Santiago	C75676	Andrews	$237,138,570
2	Lionel Valenzuela	Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Santiago	C75676	Ferris	$126,209,627
3	Edward Forrest	University of Alaska - Anchorage	C77167	Erie	$124,678,685
4	Edward Forrest	University of Alaska - Anchorage	C77167	Digby	$123,885,604
5	Peter Cesnak	Business and Hotel Management School (BHMS) CityU Seattle	C78379	Ferris	$101,112,079
6	Paul Katuse	Chandaria School of Business	C76954	Chester	$100,761,752
7	James Oldroyd	Brigham Young University - Provo	C76831	Digby	$97,773,271

Cumulative Profit
	Professor	School/Course	Simid	Team	Value
4	Jeffrey Barden	Oregon State University - Corvallis	C76590	Erie	$323,186,056
5	Jeffrey Barden	Oregon State University - Corvallis	C76591	Erie	$311,882,001
6	Veer Mehta	SCMHRD - Hinjewadi Pune	C75513	Andrews	$302,117,603
7	Robert Nickey	Mount St. Mary's University - Emmitsburg	C76872	Baldwin	$289,767,113
8	Edward Forrest	University of Alaska - Anchorage	C77167	Digby	$288,957,388
9	Edward Forrest	University of Alaska - Anchorage	C77167	Erie	$287,646,179

Stock Price
	Professor	School/Course	Simid	Team	Value
5	Edward Forrest	University of Alaska - Anchorage	C76591		$372.98

ROE
	Professor	School/Course	Simid	Team	Value
4	David Edery	Westwood College - Chicago	C75981	Chester	85.81%
5	Edward Forrest	University of Alaska - Anchorage	C77167	Digby	80.96%
6	Dharam Pal	sansRisk India - Kolkata	C72520	Chester	80.64%
7	Fred Newa	Chandaria School of Business - Nairobi	C76957	Baldwin	68.18%

ROS
	Professor	School/Course	Simid	Team	Value
1	Dharam Pal	sansRisk India - Hyderabad	C75338	Digby	84.04%
2	Lionel Valenzuela	Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Santiago	C75676	Andrews	31.42%
3	Dharam Pal	sansRisk India - Hyderabad	C75338	Ferris	30.42%
4	Edward Forrest	University of Alaska - Anchorage	C77167	Digby	29.45%
5	Kyle Murphy	Pepperdine University - Malibu	C75108	Chester	27.56%
6	Fred Newa	Chandaria School of Business - Nairobi	C76957	Digby	27.08%
7	Dharam Pal	sansRisk India - Hyderabad	C65318	Andrews	26.57%
8	Edward Forrest	University of Alaska - Anchorage	C77167	Erie	26.52%
9	James Oldroyd	Brigham Young University - Provo	C76831	Digby	26.45%

ROA
	Professor	School/Course	Simid	Team	Value
1	Edward Forrest	University of Alaska - Anchorage	C77167	Digby	53.33%
2	Dharam Pal	sansRisk India - Hyderabad	C75338	Digby	44.35%
3	John Kraft	University of Florida - Gainesville	C76784	Erie	41.74%
4	Dharam Pal	sansRisk India - Hyderabad	C75338	Ferris	37.71%
5	Johan Winbladh	City University of Seattle - Bratislava	C70279	Digby	36.87%
6	Edward Forrest	University of Alaska - Anchorage	C77167	Erie	36.47%
7	Lori Cook	DePaul University - Medline	C76256	Ferris	35.46%
8	Andrew Fodor	Ohio University - Athens	C77157	Digby	35.43%

Asset Turnover
	Professor	School/Course	Simid	Team	Value
1	Dharam Pal	sansRisk India - Kolkata	C72564	Andrews	5.49
2	Christine Miller	Tennessee Technological University - Cookeville	C77565	Ferris	3.28
3	Veer Mehta	SCMHRD - Hinjewadi Pune	C75509	Ferris	3.14
4	Edward Forrest	University of Alaska - Anchorage	C77167	Ferris	2.91
5	David Flanagan	Western Michigan University - Kalamazoo	C76180	Andrews	2.87