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2006 Headlines

Johnson School Wins CMU Case Competition

A team from the Johnson School won the 14th annual Corporate Finance Case Competition held at Carnegie Mellon University this weekend. The team featured MBA students Archil Gachechiladze, Justin Charise, Kiran Prasad, Ralph Leung, and Sendur Sellakumar. This is the first time Cornell has won this case competition.

Teams from top MBA schools participated in this event, including Northwestern's Kellogg, NYU/Stern, and Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School. Each was asked to recommend a financing strategy for an aluminum production project in the Middle East. They had six hours to solve the case, and then present their solution to a panel of judges. Teams were evaluated according to their quality of analysis, professionalism of presentation, and responsiveness to judges' questions and comments.

The judging panel consisted of four representatives from academia and industry, including Johnson School assistant professor of finance Yaniv Grinstein.