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Congratulations to the undergraduate ethics case competition winners!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 David Eccles School of Business Daniels Fund Undergraduate Ethics Initiative Case Competition! The winners will go on to compete regionally in Denver, tackling real-world ethics situations as they go up against the strongest teams in the country. Congratulations again to the winners! 1st Place- Veritas Consulting Group Sam Bemis Jordan Reninger Ghada Shehab Merry Joseph Franco Jin Hunter [...]

Jerry Norton2018-02-20T11:49:20-07:00February 20th, 2018|

Eccles School team wins Diversity and Business Ethics Case Competition

The 3rd Annual Diversity and Business Ethics Case Competition hosted by the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder had 13 teams competing this past weekend, two of them from the David Eccles School of Business. Arriving late Thursday night in Boulder, Eccles School teams Wasatch Consulting and Green Elephant Consulting were both comprised of Opportunity Scholars and First Ascent Scholars. [...]

Jerry Norton2018-02-15T08:09:35-07:00February 14th, 2018|

Aspiring Analysts Take Game Day Analytics First Prize

Congratulations to team Aspiring Analysts for winning the inaugural Game Day Ad Analytics Blitz competition, hosted by the Eccles School Department of Operations and Information Systems! Team members and Eccles School students Gayathri Kunnathil, Harshan Nagulapally, Naveenkumarreddy Peddagorla and Vineel Talupula came together to collect Twitter data during the Super Bowl on Feb. 4, 2018, and analyze the tweets to find business insights surrounding [...]

Dale Frost2023-03-16T17:34:59-06:00February 13th, 2018|

Eccles School MHA students take top prize in case competition

David Eccles School of Business MHA students proved themselves to be the best in the region last week, taking home top honors at the 2017 American College of Healthcare Executives Regional Case Competition. The contest — held in Los Angeles — pitted 12 schools from Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah against one another to analyze and critique a real-world case. This year's case featured the Children's Hospital [...]

Jerry Norton2017-04-11T12:54:31-06:00April 11th, 2017|

Winners of the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Case Competition announced

Students competed in The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Case Competition on Friday, Feb. 10, and congratulations are in in order! A team of six outstanding Eccles School students took home the top prize as they applied the ethics they learned from the legacy of business giant Bill Daniels. The competition featured eight teams, and they had to tackle a real-world ethical dilemma in the [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:07:37-07:00February 13th, 2017|

Eccles School places second in ethics competition

The University of Utah David Eccles School of Business' team took second place in the national Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative’s fifth annual Consortium Case Competition in Denver on April 14 and 15. The five-member team of Ben Caine, Carly Ho, Paxton Klein, Howard Reeve and Jan Ostusinik competed against nine other teams from around the country. Associate Professor Jeff Nielsen served as the team’s [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:08:03-07:00April 20th, 2016|

Eccles School team wins Race & Case for fourth year in a row

For the fourth year in a row, the Eccles School’s student team has won the Race & Case ethics competition hosted by the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. The competition combines an ethics case competition and a downhill ski race, with 80 percent of the points awarded based on the case competition and 20 percent based on the skiing. Eight [...]

Jerry Norton2016-04-03T07:55:00-06:00April 3rd, 2016|

MHA students win in UAB Case Competition

The David Eccles School of Business MHA Team took second place in the University of Alabama-Birmingham national case competition. As a team of three MHA students, on February 26, placed 2nd as the winners in the University of Alabama Healthcare case competition. A.J. Reall, Roger Phillips, and Austin Thornhill represented the MHA program, accompanied by observers Whitney Warner and Chase Wright. The UAB case competition is [...]

Jerry Norton2016-03-03T12:47:13-07:00March 3rd, 2016|

MHA students reach semi-finals of case competition

Four Eccles School MBA/MHA students recently competed in the University of Alabama Healthcare Case Competition, and even though it was only the second year the Eccles School has competed, the students reached the semi-finals. They ended up competing in a Group of Death (for all of your World Cup fans out there), and the two teams that beat them — University of North Carolina [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:08:34-07:00May 1st, 2015|

Accounting teams rock at PwC Competition

Recently several teams of accounting students competed in a case competition with PwC. Martha Eining is the Director of the School of Accounting so she might be biased but she writes with glowing enthusiasm about her students: Our students were awesome! Jamie Bay, Marci Butterfield, Shannon Charles, Michael Lewis, Mark Stevens, and myself served as faculty mentors for the eight teams, consisting of 33 [...]

Jerry Norton2014-10-27T11:04:37-06:00October 27th, 2014|