Smeal College MBA Trio Honored At Oregon Entrepreneurship Competition
Smeal College MBA Trio Honored At Oregon Entrepreneurship Competition
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (April 27, 2004) – Smeal College MBAs Brian Anderson, Ankit Patel, and Michael Mikalsky recently won the Best Presentation Award at the University of Oregon’s New Venture Championship business plan competition in Portland.
During the April 8-10 event, the Smeal trio competed against 20 other schools, pitching a plan for new railway car technology that increases cargo fuel efficiency by 20 percent. The plan was developed in collaboration with Anthony C. Warren, director of Smeal’s Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
University teams competing in the competition included: Drexel, Georgia Tech, Ohio State, San Diego State, Thammasat (Thailand), Colorado at Boulder, Denver, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Manitoba (Canada), Oregon, Portland, San Francisco, Texas at Austin, Washington, Vanderbilt, and Wake Forest.
In March, Smeal MBA student Bradley C. Barnhorst offered the same railcar concept to a panel of judges and won the elevator pitch event at the McGinnis Venture Competition hosted by Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
