Operations Case Competition

Johnson School's Operations Management Club Places Third

A team from the Johnson School's Operations Management Club won third place in Carnegie-Mellon's GSIA 7th annual Operations Case Competition on the first weekend of November—placing higher than such schools as the London Business School, Yale, Indiana, Vanderbilt, and Brazil's IBMEC. (The top two slots went to Carnegie-Mellon and MIT; a total of 18 schools competed.) Team members Peter Georgianna '03, Martine Kok '03, Tavish MacLean '03, and Christian Rhodes '04 analyzed the case of the electrical and electronic controls division of Eaton Corp.'s electrical distribution equipment business segment. They proposed actions the division should take in the face of a diminishing NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturers Assn.) market, a rising IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) market, a higher cost structure than their competitors, and industry-wide consolidation.