Bowling Green, Ky. - For the second straight year, graduate and undergraduate teams from Western Kentucky University’s Gordon Ford College of Business swept first-place awards in the annual International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition.

In the competition, students run a simulated company for 10 weeks. They make all the marketing, production, finance, and human resource decisions for their company and compete against other companies in their division. Seven undergraduate students and 21 graduate students participated at WKU.

For the first nine weeks, students send their decisions via the Internet. On April 6-8, students representing each team traveled to San Diego for an “intensive” phase making nine decisions in two days and presenting a report to a Board of Directors.  Teams were ranked for their company performance and excellence in their presentations, annual reports and business plans.

Members of WKU’s undergraduate team (company name Western Kensaki) that competed in San Diego were Matt Burke of Louisville, Ross Richey of Central City and Joshua Knight of Bowling Green. Faculty adviser is Dr. Gabe Buntzman.
Members of the MBA graduate team (company name Scandles) were Jackie Newman of Franklin, Lance Dement of Madisonville, and Fabian Novoa, Hung-Jung Wang and Ben Mahaney, all of Bowling Green. Faculty adviser is Dr. Linda Parry.

WKU teams were among competitors from 32 other schools from the United States and around the world.

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For information, contact Gordon Ford College of Business at (270) 745-6311.

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