Vol. 2 Issue 3 Home Message from the Dean Message from Ashok Sani Career Resource Series Author Lecture Series NYU Alumni Weekend Notes from the Undergraduate College Greetings from Dean Choi Undergraduate Students Compete in Case Competitions News Stories Berkley Center Competition Alumni Buddy Program Vault.com Alumni Support OCD Glucksman Awards Robert Kavesh Honored Recent Events Alumni Wine Tasting Reception for January Langone Graduates Reception in Israel Lecture in San Francisco Update from Washington, D.C. Alumni Corner Upcoming Events Stern in the News Feedback STERN@lumni Home Contact Us Office of Alumni Affairs NYU Stern School of Business 44 West Fourth Street, 10th Floor New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212) 998-4040 Fax: (212) 995-4515 E-Mail: alumni@stern.nyu.edu Suzette Lemson, Assistant Dean Jeanne Marano, Director Elena Piercy, Associate Director Sheri Pillo , Associate Director Hae Soo Kim, Coordinator Debra Stern, Administrative Aide Joanne Marone, Secretary Office of Alumni Affairs Home		Undergraduate Students Compete in Copenhagen Case Competition Throughout the 2002-2003 academic year, Stern undergraduates have enthusiastically represented Stern at case competitions at corporations and academic institutions around the globe. It is not surprising that students welcome these opportunities as they often involve job prospects, travel and substantive prizes. Most important, they offer the chance to apply their Stern education to real-world problems and to build the Stern reputation worldwide. This month, a team of four Stern seniors - Sudipti Gupta, Neha Jikaria, Karen Narang and Nehal Valia - traveled to Copenhagen to compete in the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) Case Competition. The aim of the CBS Case Competition is to create an opportunity for the best business undergraduate students to obtain a learning experience in terms of applying theoretical competencies as an instrument of real-life problem solving. Furthermore, the competition aims to encourage a dynamic cross-cultural networking environment in which students as well as faculty can exchange experiences. The Organizing Committee of CBS Case Competition annually selects a number of schools to be invited based on previous merits, international reputation, experience in case solving and/or case based teaching. NYU Stern was one of three U.S. competitors, including the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Additional competitors representing universities from nine countries included: Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Demark; Norweigan School of Management, Oslo, Norway; McGill University, Montréal, Canada; Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan; Singapore Management University, Singapore; Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, University of Cape Town, South Africa; University of Economic Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; and WHU Koblenz, Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany. The competition spanned an entire week including three days of research, analysis and preparation and one day of presentations. By the end of the academic year, in addition to the Copenhagen Case Competition, students will have competed in the Carrot Capital Business Plan Competition, Loréal Marketing Award, Marshall School International Case Competition, Merrill Lynch Case Competition and New York Fed Challenge. Although the structure and content varies, each competition requires analytic skills, teamwork and excellent presentation skills. Stern's success at these competitions has been impressive. In 2002, Stern captured first place prizes at both the Merrill Lynch Case Competition and the New York Fed Challenge.