Two Olin undergraduate teams were finalists in the 2nd Annual Midwest Diversity Case Competition hosted by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in mid-January.
Members of the newly created student organization, Arch Consulting, sent teams to the competition in Bloomington and they came home with third and fourth place finishes that included awards of $2,500 and $1,700, respectively. The first place prize was $7,000 out of a prize purse totaling $20,000.
24 teams from 16 distinguished universities participated in the competition. The competition is designed to educate students about the importance of diversity in business and showcases talented, under-represented, minority students. The competition was created and organized by the Kelley Student Diversity Council.
In addition to the mission of diversity, the case competition serves as a recruiting platform for corporate sponsors including Target, Ernst & Young, General Electric, General Mills, Whirlpool, Huron Consulting Group, Allstate, Xerox, KPMG, and Google.
Arch Consulting is Olin’s traveling case competition group and hopes to continue to grow and excel at case competitions such as these.
This academic year Arch Consulting will also compete at Northeastern University, Georgetown, USC, and the U of Pittsburgh. Arch Consulting teams also enter Olin and on-campus case competitions.
