NU BUSINESS STUDENTS TAKE TOP PRIZE AT WHARTON CASE COMPETITION

11/2012

A team of undergraduate students in the Hunt­ington Man­age­ment Con­sulting (NUHMC) took first place in an extremely competitive case competition hosted at the Wharton School of the Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­vania on October 12, 2012.  The students who represented Northeastern University in this intercollegiate competition where: Bree Jones, class of 2013, and Jed Baker, Jake Wain­wright and Joe Haniak, all class of 2014.

The theme for this year’s conference was “Charting your Career in Consulting”, a statement which represents Wharton’s overall goal to educate conference attendees on the breadth of the consulting industry. The under­grad­uate teams were tasked with the com­plex chal­lenge of restruc­turing a pri­vate wealth man­age­ment com­pany merger and pre­senting their solu­tion to a panel of judges from the con­sulting industry. The North­eastern team’s pre­sen­ta­tion incor­po­rated not only an overall strategic restruc­turing plan, but also a blue­print for tran­si­tioning some employees to new assign­ments and respon­si­bil­i­ties that would make the com­pany stronger and more efficient.

Competing teams were from the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of North Carolina, Duke University, Rutgers University, New York University, and Northeastern University.

When asked, “How did it feel to come out on top against many Ivy League schools?” Joe Haniak replied by saying, “It definitely felt good. To go down there against so many great schools and win for the brand new D’Amore McKim School was a great feeling!”