Recently in Case Competitions Category

We won the first National League Case Competition.

As the new Dean said:

The University of Auckland Business School has been crowned Champions of the inaugural National League Case Competition sponsored by Deloitte.

The league began at Otago University on May 9th with three more preliminary rounds in Christchurch, Hamilton and Wellington before a three-round final held last week at Massey.

Auckland went into the final week 5 points behind the University of Waikato. The scoring system for the League placed a greater weighting on the final rounds, so the team had to deliver in every round to be successful. They started well with with two close seconds on Monday and Wednesday and although Auckland had a 50 point lead over Otago going into the final day the outcome was still uncertain.

The fledgling New Zealand Feijoa Industry was the subject of the final case and the team produced another strong performance to once again, finish a close second! Their consistency of performance was ultimately what carried the day.

Well done to "head coach" Brendon Potter and to the students in the teams.

I received and email today from Baris to let me know he has a blog. Baris was one of the students from Maastricht University who competed in the MMICC in March this year.

His site lead me to Manu's site who was also part of the Maastricht team.

The interesting thing about the Maastricht team was that many of the students were from Germany (rather than the Netherlands). That's a bit like our own Valeria Biurrun and Christian Zaum, who I think are also Germans who studied at Maastricht (and are now studying here at Auckland).

They, Valeria and Christian were part of the team with Lincoln Kyne, Pravin d'Lima, and Barbara
Wilkinson that competed in the regional round of the BCG case competition. Alas, in this postgraduate compeition the two teams that were placed were from AUT and Cantabury.