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Amazon.com Furnishes Case for Tepper School's Annual International Operations Case Competition

Release Date: Nov 08, 2007

PITTSBURGH – Teams from top-tier business schools across the country will compete this weekend at the 12th International Operations Case Competition to be held at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Amazon.com is providing the case this year at the annual event sponsored by the Operations Management Club at the Tepper School.

Jeremy Hastings, president of the Tepper School's Graduate Business Association, talks about class size and faculty involvement in student case competitions.

The competition begins Friday, Nov. 9, 3:30 to 5 p.m., with a panel of industry experts hosted by Amazon.com, titled, “Lean in the Supply Chain.”  The competition case will be presented at 6 p.m, and teams have until midnight to analyze the business problems in the case and develop their strategic solutions.

The competition will be judged by a panel of industry executives. Teams will be judged on the soundness of their reasoning, their analysis of the problem and the strength of their business assessment. First round presentations begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10; finalists present at 1:30 p.m. and winners will be announced at 3:30 p.m. The first, second and third prizes are $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500 respectively.

Teams from the following top MBA programs will compete this year:
• University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
• Georgetown University – McDonough School of Business
• Georgia Tech College of Management
• Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management
• University of North Carolina – Kenan-Flagler Business School
• Purdue University - Krannert School of Management
• The University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
• Vanderbilt University – Owen School of Management
• University of Michigan - Ross School of Business
• MIT – Sloan School of Management
• Carnegie Mellon University – Tepper School of Business

Last year’s winner was a team from the Owen Graduate School of Management; a team from the Tepper School placed second; and a team from Darden School of Business placed third.

Corporate sponsors of the 2007 International Case Competition include Amazon.com, Honeywell, Cooper Industries, Eaton Corporation, Graham Packaging Company, L.P. and Union Pacific.

Founded in 1949, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon (www.tepper.cmu.edu) is a pioneer in the field of management science and analytical decision-making. The school’s notable contributions to the intellectual community include six Nobel laureates and a consistent presence in the top-tier of business school rankings. The Wall Street Journal recently ranked the Tepper School as the fifth-best business school in the United States.