JMSB Takes Home Third Place at NIBS Case Competition
Congratulations to Haby Diallo, Alison Revine, Robin Sancton and Haig Tachejian on their impressive performance at the 2012 Network of International Business Schools (NIBS) Case Competition hosted at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.
The week-long event began with a round-robin preliminary round that had the ten participating universities competing head-to-head to accumulate points. In this round, teams completed four cases in three days; a four-hour case on the first, two three-hour cases on the second and another four-hour case on the third. JMSB did exceptionally well, winning three out of four face-offs in this intense round before moving on to the semi-finals. JMSB was the only team to beat South East Missouri, the eventual winner of the competition.
“The semi-finals proved to be the most challenging part of the competition,” according to Tachejian. “The case was extremely well written and difficult, and the top four teams competing were all extremely talented. Historically, those universities have done extremely well at this competition. It was an honour to be competing with such strong and friendly teams”. The teams presented a four-hour case and the top two moved on to the final round.
There was only a three-point difference between the first and fourth place team.
The final standings were:
- Southeast Missouri State University
- Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
- John Molson School of Business, Concordia University / Dublin Institute for Technology
The team would like to extend a special thanks to lead coach Tim Field, and to Matthew Parker-Jones and Cleo Roch for accompanying them to Rotterdam and for helping them bond into a cohesive, competitive unit. The team would also like to thank Head coach and Advisor to the Competition Program, Mark Haber, who also accompanied the team, for his support and dedication.
The team would also like to express its deepest gratitude to exclusive sponsor Pfizer Canada for their support and encouragement of the case competition program.
For more information about the competition, please contact the John Molson Competition Committee at info@jmcconline.ca .