WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Entrepreneurship students from six MBA schools across the nation will compete for $10,000 in prize money in the inaugural Kauffman/Angell Center For Entrepreneurship National Case-Writing Competition on Jan. 26-27.
The Angell Center at Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management will host the competition, to be held at the Worrell Professional Center on the Wake Forest campus.
Competing students will present teaching case studies that they have written. Students from the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Nebraska, Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame and Wake Forest will participate.
Cases will focus on such subjects as new venture creation and venture capital; entrepreneurial finance, human resources or marketing; and fast-growth management. Supervising faculty from the participating schools will serve as judges. The winner will receive $5,000, with the remaining $5,000 distributed among the other five schools.
Each school held preliminary competitions to determine their representatives. Erik Larsen, a second-year MBA student, won Babcock's competition in November and will represent the school. Larsen won $3,000 for his case, which involved Stratford Biotechnologies Inc.
Stan Mandel, director of the Angell Center, says the competition will be a valuable learning tool for participants.
"We have found that student preparation of a teaching case with teaching notes is a very strong learning tool that helps bridge the gap between theory and practice for young entrepreneurs," Mandel says. "This competition will enrich students' internship experiences and underscore how important competition is in entrepreneurial activities. It also promises to add a treasury of cases available to MBA programs that offer entrepreneurship courses and curriculums."
The competition was funded in part through a $40,000 grant given to the Babcock School by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. All participating schools are members of the Kauffman Entrepreneur Internship Program. The Kauffman Center, located in Kansas City, Mo., works to accelerate entrepreneurship in America through educational programming and research.
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The Babcock School is ranked among the nation's best graduate business schools by Business Week, Forbes and U.S. News & World Report, and among the world's best business schools by the Financial Times of London. Information on the Babcock School is available at www.mba.wfu.edu.
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