Less than two weeks after the NFL Super Bowl game aired, the David Eccles School of Business hosted the Presentation and Award Ceremony event of the Game Day Analytics Challenge. The Challenge is an annual competition that gives student teams real-world experience analyzing millions of tweets related to Super Bowl ads, producing a professional infographic and white paper, and presenting their findings to [...]
Student teams from the David Eccles School of Business recently participated in the Business Consulting Case Competition hosted by Leavitt Partners. Participants tackled a challenging case representing a healthcare company's request for market expansion. Eleven teams, composed of graduate and undergraduate students, submitted data sets, after which five teams were selected to present to a panel of judges made up of industry professionals [...]
Congratulations to all Eccles Beginnings Summer Bridge students for participating in the annual Eccles Beginnings Case Competition. We are thrilled to announce a two-way tie for first place: The Case Busters and Team Nebula! Each July, we welcome a cohort of incoming first-year students to campus as part of the Eccles Beginnings Summer Bridge program. During their time on campus, students take math [...]
The Goff Strategic Leadership Center and the Office for Student Inclusion at the David Eccles School of Business recently hosted the 2022 Inclusion & Business Strategy Case Competition. Sponsored by Dominion Energy, this annual competition allows students to strengthen their skills and work within a team to solve a business case focused on inclusion. This year's challenge came from Versatile Image, a local [...]
The David Eccles School of Business recently hosted its largest Game Day Analytics Challenge (GDAC) to date, both in the number of participating teams and sponsors. GDAC is an annual competition that gives student teams just four days to analyze millions of Tweets related to Super Bowl ads and produce a professional infographic and white paper. This year 32 made it to the [...]
On Jan. 24, 2020, the Eccles School hosted its second annual Business Strategy Case Competition, sponsored by Dominion Energy. Hosted by the Office of Student Inclusion and the Goff Strategic Leadership Center, this competition was the culminating event of Eccles Inclusion Week. Trish Gorman, director of the Goff Strategic Leadership Center, selected this year's case, which focused on gender-based branding and advertising of the [...]
DENVER, April 15, 2019 — The undergraduate team from the David Eccles School of Business took first place in the eighth annual Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative’s Consortium Case Competition that took place April 11-12 in Denver. For the first time ever, the event included a separate competition track for graduate students in addition to the undergraduate student track. The Eccles School’s graduate team took [...]
On Feb. 8-9, the David Eccles School of Business had two teams participate in the University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business Diversity & Business Ethics Case Competition. The teams competed against other schools across the region and created a business plan for a case involving gender identity and the use of different gender pronouns at a large publishing company. Veritas Consulting, composed [...]
The David Eccles School of Business team was named as one of nine regional winners of Deloitte FanTAXtic, Deloitte’s student Tax Case Study Competition. More than 60 teams representing more than 40 colleges and universities participated in the regional event from Nov. 9-10, held at Deloitte offices across the U.S. The Eccles School team demonstrated the ability to work collaboratively to solve a complex [...]
Students from the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business are the first place winners of the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative’s seventh annual Consortium Case Competition, which took place April 19-20 in Denver. The second place team was from University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management, and the third place team was from University of Wyoming’s College of Business. The winning team [...]