Alana Des Coeurs, Isabella Matteo, and Catherine Richard represented Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business (JMSB) at Ryerson University’s 7th annual Organizational Behaviour Case Competition (OBCC).

Having won the competition the two previous years, the team faced their challenge head on, delivering a stellar performance and winning gold. The competition had two phases. In the first phase, participants had two hours to read a case and twenty minutes to present their solution. The three teams selected for the final round had 15 minutes to adjust their recommendations before presenting to a panel of eight judges who are professionals in the Human Resources industry.

Congratulations to the JMSB team for their incredible work!

Final results:

1. Concordia University (John Molson School of Business)
2. University of Guelph
3. McMaster University

Thanks to lead coach, Aaron Dresner for accompanying the team and for guiding them to their brilliant performance. Thanks to assistant coach, Savvas Pilarinos for his help.
Thanks also to alumni Scott Fisher, Allyson Ifergan  and Jessica Kuan for their insightful tips.

A special thanks to head coach, Mark Haber for his support and dedication to the case competition program.

The team would also like to express its deepest gratitude to exclusive sponsor Pfizer Canada for their support and encouragement of the case competition program.

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Students Samer Balaghi, Michel Berger, Adam Forlini and Samuel Nasso represented Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business (JMSB) at the 2012 Battle on Bay Street, Ryerson University’s Financial Management Case Competition. The JMSB team made its mark on the competition with an impressive third-place place finish.

“The Ryerson case was about Sustainametrics, a tech start-up developing a Smartphone app to help companies implement their sustainability strategy among their employees,” said Berger. “Our job was to value the start-up and determine the best way to finance its growth – it had a projected shortfall in the next year if it did not receive a cash injection. The professor who wrote the case told us we had the most accurate valuation.”

The final rankings were:

1. University of Waterloo (team 1)
2. University of Waterloo (team 2)
3. Concordia University (John Molson School of Business)

Congratulations to the Concordia team for their comprehensive analysis and presentation of recommendations at the competition.

The competition committee would like to extend its thanks to Reena Atanasiadis, Amr Ezzat, Arthur Grabovsky and Thomas Horvath for their coaching.

Special thanks to Head Coach and Advisor to the Undergraduate Competition Program, Mark Haber for his dedication and support.
The team would also like to express its deepest gratitude to exclusive sponsor Pfizer Canada for their support and encouragement of the case competition program.

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Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business (JMSB) took home second place at the Commerce Games (Jeux du Commerce), held this year at Université Laval in Québec City from January 5 to 8, 2012. Over 1,000 students from eastern Canadian universities participated in this competition, making it the biggest commerce competition in eastern Canada. The weekend-long competition put the participants’ skills to the test in a variety of categories which included academics, debate, stock simulation, sports and social. The JMSB teams’ strong performances and team spirit earned the delegation the runner-up spot behind the winners from Ottawa University’s Telfer School of Management and ahead of third-place Université Laval.

Congratulations to the entire delegation, all of whom contributed to the overall second place finish. Below is a list of participants and their results:

Final Overall Results:

1. Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa
2. John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
3. Université Laval

The John Molson Competition Committee would also like to extend a special thanks to Head Coach and Advisor to the Competition Program, Mark Haber, for his commitment and his contribution to the program.

The Committee would also like to thank its exclusive sponsor Pfizer Canada for their support of the competition program.

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January 18th 2012 – In late November 2011, Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business (JMSB) qualified for the final round of the Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (ICBC), held at Queen’s University’s Queen’s School of Business. JMSB teams qualified in six competition categories: five business disciplines and the category for debate. This in itself was an incredible accomplishment and represent JMSB’s best qualification round results ever.

The JMSB delegation managed to parlay its six entries into four podium finishes – the most of any university at the competition.

Congratulations to all the ICBC competitors and coaches for their outstanding work and commitment!

Below is a list of competitors and their results:

Thanks to Jonathan Mailhot, an ICBC alumnus who showed his support for the JMSB teams all weekend.

The teams that did not qualify worked hard to produce excellent papers. ICBC is a competition where only the top six of as many as 30 teams qualify in each category of the final round. Thanks to the marketing team of Kirsten Law and Alison Revine, along with their coaches Peter Elenakis and J.S. Belanger. And to the Accounting team of Gregory Synanidis and Phoebe Li, with their coaches Gail Fayerman, Basel Arafe and Patrick Gagnon.

The John Molson Competition Committee would also like to extend a special thanks to Head Coach and Advisor to the Competition Program, Mark Haber, for his commitment and his contribution to the program.

The Committee would also like to thank its exclusive sponsor Pfizer Canada for their support of the competition program.

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December 1st 2011- Two accounting teams from the John Molson School of Business (JMSB) competed in the third annual inter-collegiate Brock University Accounting Conference. And they did not return empty-handed.

The JMSB team of Phoebe Li, Tarun Suri, Veronica Perez and Mariann Rossi finished an impressive second overall, while a second team composed of Ranjit Girn, Eric Mcdonald, Lucie Keuyalian and Greg Synanidis, was eliminated by the eventual winners from University of Saskatchewan. University of Ontario Institute of Technology finished third.

This was JMSB’s second time attending the conference, which is growing every year. This year, the event expanded to 14 senior teams and added a junior division. Coach Patrick Gagnon, who accompanied the delegation, noted that “Niagara Falls is a great place in which to host a competition,” and that it “brought out the best performances in our two teams.”

Gagnon also explained that the organizers of the conference were impressed by JMSB’s history of case competition success, recalling last year’s competition when the team took home the gold. “They have already expressed hope that we come back next year,” he said.

The John Molson Competition Committee (JMCC) would like to congratulate both teams on their performances and to thank coaches Gail Fayerman, Basel Arafe, Patrick Gagnon, Audrey Landry, Martina Petrova and June Svetlovsky for turning our students into successful competitors. Special thanks to head coach and Advisor to the Undergraduate Competition Program Mark Haber for his dedication and contributions to the case competition program.

The Committee also extends a very special thanks to its exclusive sponsor, Pfizer Canada for their support and encouragement of the case competition program.

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