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STUDENT Achievements
VSB Team Ranked Second in the Aspen Institute International MBA Case Competition four MBA students won second place in the Aspen Institute Business & Society International MBA Case Competition and took home a prize of $10,000.
“The Aspen Case Competition was the absolute greatest part of my entire MBA experience. It is an incredible feeling to know that we can compete with the top MBA schools in the world,” says Christy Calabro MBA ’11. Calabro, along with fellow MBA students Evan Taylor MBA ’14, Judy Underwood MBA ’11, and Ulana Chabon MBA ’11, competed against six other teams during the first round, which was held on campus, and then went on to face the top teams from 24 other universities nationwide in the second round of the case competition. After being notified that they were one of the top five finalists, the four students had one week to convert their submission into a PowerPoint presentation, which they delivered to a panel of judges in New York City. “Completing this case study and presenting our recommendations was a tremendous amount of work,” says Calabro, “but it was so rewarding, and the support we received along the way from VSB was overwhelming. Our goal as a team was to deliver the best presentation we could, and we were so proud of our performance. To hear our names called as the
Aspen Institute International MBA Case Competition second place winners Evan Taylor MBA ’14, Judy Underwood MBA ’11, Ulana Chabon MBA ’11, and Christy Calabro MBA ’11
second place team was just the icing on the cake. That was a moment I will never forget.” The competition challenges participants to analyze a case study and come up with corporate social responsibility and sustainability initiatives for a major organization, encouraging students to be innovative while taking into consideration corporate profitability and environmental, social, and ethical issues.
Business Without Borders Named Chapter of the Year
Kayleigh Huang VSB ’12 and Daniel Newell VSB ’13 accept the Net Impact Chapter of the Year award on behalf of Business Without Borders.
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One year after its first meeting, VSB’s Business Without Borders (BWB) student group was named Net Impact Chapter of the Year for 2010. VSB students accepted the prestigious award at the Net Impact Conference, held at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. VSB’s BWB community is one of 48 Net Impact undergraduate chapters in the United States. Net Impact, which has more than 260 chapters worldwide, is an organization for professionals, graduate students,
and undergraduates that aims to use business to create a socially and environmentally sustainable world. The mission of BWB is to provide a platform where business students can utilize knowledge from their classroom experience and apply it to the real world. The club organizes special events, recruits visiting speakers, and creates opportunities for students to work both locally and internationally using their business acumen to address social needs. “We’re thrilled and proud to have won the Net Impact Chapter of the Year Award,” says Robert Hanlon VSB ’11,
