MBA Team Wins The Economist’s Case Competition

Cheers went up all across campus in early February when two students and a recent Institute alumna took first place in a 24-team international MBA case-study competition sponsored by The Economist. Whitney Hales MBA/MAIEP ’14, Nuan He MBA ’15, and Meagan Braun MBA/MAIEP ’15 will collect a prize of $10,000 for their winning entry in the competition, which asked the teams to evaluate the strategy and financial assumptions be­hind a recent corporate acquisition. They beat out rival teams from MIT Sloan, the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, insead, and others.