Ivy’s professional MBA program hosts first internal strategy case competition

Professional MBA students teamed up to go head-to-head in the first internal strategy case competition, tackling a case that explored Best Buy’s strategy under a new CEO.

New in fall 2023, we’ve added a Professional MBA Strategy Internal Case Competition for our professional MBA students on the Des Moines campus. As a part of their capstone course, Management 504, students competed in teams with a case that explored Best Buy’s strategy under a new CEO. Thank you to Mike Howard, Hilsinger-Janson Professor, for his partnership as we added this important learning component to our program.

A special thank you to our outstanding judges:

Hillary Eckert

Valentina Salotti

Prabdeep Bajwa

Sid Ramsey

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Ben Menz

Congratulations to this year’s winners:

First Place Winners

Hillary Eckert

Mitch Amundson

Prabdeep Bajwa

Cody Haugo

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Ross Patrick

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Joseph Rogers

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Carrie Schwake

Second Place Winners

Hillary Eckert

Phillip Cowan

Prabdeep Bajwa

Mark Feilmeier

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Jacob Larson

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Jens Pederson

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Christopher Schminke

Third Place Winners

Hillary Eckert

Joel Buehler

Hillary Eckert

Victoria Greear

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Larry Juncker

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Kelsey McSorley

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Zachary Stuart

Best Q&A and Best Presenter

Hillary Eckert

Phillip Cowan

Prabdeep Bajwa

Joseph Herst

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