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Ninth Annual Navigant-McIntire Case Competition

	Navigant-McIntire Case Competition winners with Navigant's Jeffrey Yushchak and Jessica Wilson.

McIntire congratulates the team of Ian Buchanan (McIntire ’09), Vineet Mehta (McIntire ’08), Vu Nguyen (McIntire ’09), Jay Schafer (McIntire ’09), and Michael Underhill (Engineering ’09), who won the Ninth Annual Navigant-McIntire Case Competition, which took place Feb. 21-22, 2008. The winning team took home a $2,000 first-place prize. Phillip Deneault (McIntire ’09), Yu Pan (McIntire ’09), Jongmin Sung (McIntire ’09), Simon Tsao (Engineering ’09), and Wei Wang (Engineering ’08) placed second in the event, winning $1,000.

Playing the roles of Navigant consultants, 11 student teams were asked to explore how a firm that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets high-performance integrated circuits should respond to its largest customer, who recently launched a competing, lower-cost integrated-circuit product that possibly infringed on the firm’s patents. Assessing the net present value of multiple decision scenarios, students addressed the strategic, market, financial, and relationship considerations for licensing, litigation, and buyout possibilities. After presenting their recommendations to Navigant representatives and McIntire faculty, student teams were judged based on the quality of their analyses and presentation skills.

Navigant representatives included Matt Hartley (McIntire ’07), Steve LaPenna, James Moore (McIntire ’03), Jackie Naso (McIntire ’07), Blair Weih (McIntire ’07), Jessica Wilson (McIntire ’99), Jeffrey Yushchak, and Samantha Zyontz.

A special thanks to Professors Tony Baglioni, Rich DeMong, Cynthia Gasman, and David C. Smith for their support as faculty judges.

Two teams also placed as runners-up, each winning $250.
 

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