Business Students Place Second in International CIBER Case Competition

SDSU’s CIBER team are (from l to r): Nadine Creutz, Faculty Advisor Michael Hergert, Claudia Gastelum, Augustus Gatto and Vince Nicholais.

Four SDSU College of Business Administration undergraduate students placed second in The Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) Case Challenge 2004. According to Michael Hergert, faculty advisor for the SDSU team, 12 teams from around the world competed November 2-5 on the Ohio campus with a team from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah winning the competition. "Our students did an amazing job under a lot of pressure to be one of the final teams," Hergert said. "They beat out some of the top schools from around the world and should be very proud of their accomplishment." Participating students were Nadine Creutz, Augustus Gatto, Claudia Gastelum, and Vince Nicholais. The other finalist was the University of Southern California.

Other participating schools included Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Georgia Institute of Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (China), Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University, Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico), University of Dublin (Ireland), University of Michigan, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, and the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Major sponsors included the Alcoa Foundation and Ford Motor Company.