Columbia Hosts Odyssey Management Competition

Columbia Business School will host the sixth annual ODYSSEY Global MBA Competition and Symposium, coming up on March 28 and March 29, 2014.  Held each spring, this student-organized event features a three-part business management competition between teams from a select group of the world’s top business schools who have gathered to learn, network, and compete.

In addition to the competition, the event includes a symposium featuring industry leaders addressing this year’s theme—Disrupt or Be Disrupted—which focuses on the need for companies to be agile in the face of disruptive forces and to manage innovation in order to stay ahead of challenges confronted.

Each team will compete in three categories: an entrepreneurial pitch, a case study presentation, and negotiation skills.  Leading industry practitioners judge the event, awarding points based on strength of concept and solutions, negotiation skills, and presentations.

Who:

  • Frank Eliason, Director, Global Social Media, Citi
  • Neal Goldman ’96, Founder and CEO, Relationship Science; and Co-Founder and former CEO, Capital IQ
  • Bruce Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School
  • Craig Hatkoff ’78, Founder, Victor Capital Group; Co-founder, Tribeca Film Festival and the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards
  • David Kidder, Co-Founder and CEO, Bionic; Co-founder and former CEO, Clickable; and author on entrepreneurship

Participating schools include Chicago Booth School of Business, China Europe International Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School, HKUST Business School, INSEAD, London Business School, NYU Stern School of Business, University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and Yale School of Management.

For more information on Odyssey, the competition, and symposium agenda, visit: http://www.mbaodyssey.com.

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