Owen wins (another) case competition

Owen's been in the news a lot lately; i like it when we whip up on other schools, especially in areas that aren't considered our "specialties". It seems like every case competition we go to we either place 1st or 2nd, and as you can tell by the picture, we look good doing it too.

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Congratulations to Kristin Arterburn, Michael Augustine, Mark Becher, and Denver Glazier for their second place finish last Friday at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Real Estate Development Case Competition.  This is the premier MBA real estate development case competition and it draws students from many of the top real estate programs in the country.  In the span of two days teams were tasked with creating a full development plan, including a financial analysis, project design, and a project timeline.  The competition included 15 top business schools with Owen, NYU, Emory, and Wharton competing head to head in the final round.  The Owen team gave a dominating performance but were narrowly edged out by NYU.  Other competing schools included: Chicago, Columbia, Tuck, Georgia, Ross, Kellogg, Rice, McCombs, UCLA, Kenan-Flagler, and Darden.

Comments

[TonyO33]

Stephen,

I also came from a real estate background before grad school. Getting involved in the real estate case competition is run through the real estate club. I would encourage you to get active in the club early on. The club is pretty active and has brought in many speakers throughout the year, and held a real estate symposium. Some of the contacts I made through the club lead to an internship interview.

More specificialy about the case competition, I can tell you that one of the people above was an architect before grad school, two were in construction, and one worked in the finance field. The team was constructed to maximize the strengths of each team member, and they did a great job.

[Stephen]

There may be some obvious answer to this question but i figured i'd ask anyway. I want to conentrate in finance but I come from a real estate background... can i get involved in the real estate case competition? going and whipping some ivy league kids sounds fun to me.