MBA Students Win Prestigious Business Competitions
MBA students took top honors recently at Wake Forest
University’s annual Kauffman/Angell Center for Entrepreneurship
(KACE) competition and at the Venture Capital Investment West Competition
(VCIC) held at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
MBA student Tova Miracle (center) with Dr. Stan
Mandel and Donna Fulp of the Angell Center for Entrepreneurship
at Wake Forest University.
SDSU MBA student, Tova Miracle, won first prize in
the not-for-profit category at Wake Forest University’s KACE
competition. She competed against students at universities such
as University of Arizona, University of California-Berkeley, University
of Chicago, University of Michigan and Wake Forest. Miracle developed
a business case that documented the “Classroom of the Future
Foundation” and the Lemon Grove School District’s unique
LemonLINK program. She focused on how to implement and teach change
management. “The hardest part of the case was explaining how
to create a culture of innovation, and how to teach effective change
management to others in the district,” said Miracle.
Miracle described the educational benefits of the
program in her business case which she presented to a panel of judges
comprised of faculty members at Wake Forest University. “Being
involved in this competition has greatly increased my sense of pride
in SDSU,” she said. “Going into this competition I felt
like a bit of an underdog. Winning the competition helped me to
recognize the level of education that I have been receiving from
SDSU.”
At the Venture Capital Investment Competition at the
University of Colorado, MBA students Kevin Harty, Chris Snook, Tatyana
Melim, Sudhaker Avula, Scott Carrington, Gail Batac and Troy Stites
achieved third place and also received the “Entrepreneur’s
Choice award.”
They were asked to evaluate numerous capital seeking
businesses and determine in which to invest and then wrote a term
sheet providing reasons for their decision.
The VCIC, which started in 1998, allows students to
assume the role of investor instead of entrepreneur and to gain
extensive knowledge about investing in new companies. The strategic
competition promotes teamwork, character assessment and presentation
skills.
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