Northeastern Students Shine in Case Competitions

2011 IBCC Winners

Northeastern students competed at the third annual APICS Northeast District Student Competition April 15-16th, taking home first place.

Held at Quinniapiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, this is the second year in a row Northeastern's competition team has won first place at APICS, the Association for Operations Management. Besting other business schools like Bentley and Rutgers, Northeastern's winning team included Stefanie Barron, Tom Ackerman, Spencer Murray and Dan Wittstein.

Judges and sponsors at APICS included both national and local companies like Boston Scientific, Henry Schein, Oracle, Webster Industries, Boston Strategies International and GN Netcom.

2011 Internal Case Competition a Success
Northeastern University's Huntington Management Consulting (NUHMC) held their Internal Business Case Competition (IBCC) on Saturday, April 16th. Boston Strategic Consulting took first place in this year's competition and included team members Carolyn Mazzola, Jack Wallace, Jessica Kong, Patrick Reilly and Sean Smith.

The IBCC expands the case competition to students throughout the Northeastern Community. Led by Associate Professor of International Strategy Ray "Coach" Kinnunen, the competition is modeled after the Business School Beanpot Case Competition. The Beanpot was held in Boston from 1997-2009 and Professor Kinnunen led Northeastern to victory an impressive 11 out of 13 years.

The 2011 IBCC Planning Committee included Shilpi Roongta, Rani Pimentel and Simone Morency.

For more information, please visit www.cba.neu.edu/nuhmc/ibcc/.