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Rutgers Business School team impresses supply chain management industry executives to win case competition

April 13, 2009

A team of masters students from Rutgers Business School won the Rutgers Center for Supply Chain Management annual case competition. Student teams from four distinguished northeast schools competed before a panel of industry judges from DP&C Enterprises, L’Oreal USA, MetLife, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, PSEG, Schering-Plough, and Schindler Elevator Corporation.

In addition to Rutgers Business School, the other schools competing in the challenge were the College of Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University; and P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, Lehigh University.

“The competition is an excellent opportunity for students to showcase their business skills before a panel of senior industry executives,” said Dr. Lei Lei, Professor at Rutgers Business School and Director of the Rutgers Center for Supply Chain Management. “Business executives also enjoy the chance to see top students in action.”

Student teams were assessed in the April 3rd competition on their analysis of critical business issues, quality of solutions, articulation of ideas, presentation style, and responses to questions from the judges. The winning team from Rutgers Business School included first year MBA students Som-Ming Leu, Ishma Sharma, Sarika Tandon, and Lin Yi.

The Center for Supply Chain Management case competition is another example of Rutgers Business School’s focus on delivering the real-world corporate experiences in
business, science, and technology that students need to compete in the global market place.