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The Graduate Programs Office is pleased to announce we are once again collaborating with Monsanto on our second national case competition.  This case competition is designed for MBA students interested in global supply chain and technology management in the agribusiness environment. Olin Faculty and Monsanto executives have put together a live case and are looking for innovative, creative and insightful business solutions.

Team Olin took 3rd place in last year’s competition.

Teams of four must include MBA students but are allowed to include Specialized Masters students, as well. The Olin graduate student organization, SCOPA (Supply Chain and Operations Association), is co-sponsoring the event and forming an Olin team for this year’s competition. Team Olin took 3rd place last year.

The competition consists of two rounds, one virtual and one on site.  Finalists will be invited to St. Louis for the two day event including a welcome reception and tour of Monsanto’s Chesterfield campus on Thursday, February 2, and the team competition at WashU on Friday, February 3.  Winners will receive $10,000 for first place, $5000 for second place and $2500 for third place.

To read more about the 2017 competition, visit www.olin.wustl.edu/mocc.

We are thrilled to be hosting the newest, national MBA case competition in collaboration with Monsanto on Feb. 12 at Olin. This case competition was designed for MBA students interested in global supply chain and technology management in the agri-business environment. Olin Faculty and Monsanto executives have put together a live case and are looking for innovative, creative and insightful business solutions. To read more about the case and Monsanto, please visit olin.wustl.edu/mocc.

Five teams have been invited to compete in the final round of the competition being held on Friday, February 12 in Bauer Hall 240 from 9:00am-12:30pm. The final teams represent Olin, TCU, Penn State, Rollins College and University of Missouri-Columbia. Monsanto is also holding a welcome reception at their headquarters on the evening prior to the competition for the finalist teams.

Join us on game day for team presentations from 9:00am – 12:30pm in Bauer Hall 240 with a lunch and awards reception following in Knight Center 340. Email Laura Fogarty at LFogarty@wustl.edu to RSVP for the lunch.

The Graduate Programs Office invited over 50 top ranked MBA programs across the country to participate in the inaugural event. Teams were asked to submit executive summaries and a power-point presentation of their recommendations in round one of the competition. Teams were also asked to create a five-minute video to help judges get to know the team members and allow them to have fun while showing some school spirit.

Teams from 11 top business schools competed in the inaugural Olin Case Competition Nov. 14-15 for $5000 in prize money. The team from the University of Southern California (USC) took first place, winning $3500; Wash U placed second winning $1000; the University of Texas at Austin placed third winning $500; and Wake Forest placed fourth.

Team Olin earns 2nd place.

The winners were announced at a dinner hosted by our generous sponsor, CapitalOne. Competing schools included: Boston College, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Indiana University, UNC, Notre Dame, USC, UT-Austin, University of Virginia, and Wake Forrest University.

Wash U and USC advanced to the finals from the first round, while Wake Forest and University of Texas at Austin advanced to the finals from the second round.

Olin Case Competition teams visited the St. Louis Arch after the awards ceremony on Saturday, November 15th.

The executive board of the Olin Case Competition and the Olin Business School just want to say thank you one last time to all the teams who competed and helped make the competition so exciting and successful. We also would like to thank all of our generous sponsors for making the competition possible. We hope to see everyone back next year!

To read about the case and see photos from the competition, visit the Olin Case Competition site.

Post by Graham Gaddes, a freshman studying finance, economics and strategy at Olin who served as the Vice President of Public Relations for the 2014 Olin Case Competition.