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The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business took 1^st Place in 4^th Annual National Undergraduate Supply Chain and Operations Case Competition on April 2, 2016.

Congratulations – Juhi Amodwala BBA ’17, Mickey Li BBA ’18, Nick Sajatovic BBA ’17, Amy Yu BBA ’16!
In addition to the team win, Amy Yu was named the 2016 Best Presenter.

Hosted by the University of Minnesota-Carlson School of Business, the competition brought together undergraduate students from 15 of the top supply chain management programs in the country including Michigan State University, Penn State University, and Arizona State University.

The teams had 24 hours to develop and present a solution to a 3M case. The presentations were judged by representatives from 3M, Cargill, C.H. Robinson, Land O’Lakes, Target, Polaris, Andersen, Best Buy, Eaton, FedEx, General Mills, Medtronic, and Protiviti.

The UT-Austin team’s cohesive solution and presentation, poise, and solid financial analysis put them ahead of the field for the win.

The team was assembled and sponsored by the Supply Chain Management Center of Excellence – a company-sponsored center dedicated to developing outstanding academic programs and talent in supply chain management.

Professors Wen Wen and Sirkka Jarvenpaa won a Best Paper Award at the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) for their paper, “Standards, Intellectual Property Rights, and Strategic Patenting:  Evidence from the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)”. The paper, which they co-authored with Professor Chris Forman of the Georgia Institute of Technology, studies how the development of formal standards for information and communication technologies shapes the strategic patenting behavior of firms.  WISE is the premier academic research forum for information systems issues from an economics perspective.  Their paper was selected as the Best Paper among 198 submissions.

IROM Associate Professor Genaro Gutierrez was named a finalist for the DAS Practice Award for the year 2015. He, along with Saurabh Bansal, wrote Expert Calibration and Elicitation for Large Scale Investment Decisions. "The DAS Practice Award is given annually to the best decision analysis application, as judged by a panel of Society members." Read more at INFORMS online.