Carey MBAs Finish 5th at MIT Sloan Operations Simulation Competition
According to a news release on the Carey Business School website, a team that included three Carey Global MBAs earned fifth place in MIT Sloan’s 12th Annual Operations Simulation Competition. Carey students Prateek Agarwal, Alex Starr, and Sean Chou were on the “alexstarr” team that finished the online simulation with a cash balance of $2,233,510.
MIT Sloan’s 12th Annual Operations Simulation Competition challenged nearly 200 teams comprised of business students from graduate programs around the world to manage a factory — requiring activities such as making investments, cutting costs, borrowing money, forecasting demand, detecting bottlenecks, and fulfilling orders. The event took place online and was held from April 7-10.
Carey Assistant Professor Tinglong Dai, who taught the three students in his operations management course in fall 2014, said:
“They were competing with MBA students from peer schools including Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Ross, Tepper, Chicago Booth, and Haas. The intense competition, the most challenging and quantitative in the world of business education, lasted for 72 hours.”
The Global MBA program at the Carey Business School offers primarily daytime and evening classes at Johns Hopkins’ Baltimore campus. Carey offers one intake per year with classes beginning during the fall semester. As part of the curriculum, students take part in an Innovation for Humanity program during the summer between the first and second years of the program. While in this program, students travel to different countries across the globe to work collaboratively with local entrepreneurs and community leaders.
There are a total of 117 students enrolled in the full-time MBA program at Carey. The average age of students enrolled is 26. On average, 43.6 percent of students are female and 52.1 percent are international students. Students in this program have an average of two to five years of professional work experience, although there is no minimum requirement.
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