Kellogg Alumni Honored For Contributions to School and Community
This post was originally sourced from Gratitude for Kellogg, an article on the school’s website about three alumni honored for their achievements in the professional world and at Kellogg.
John Livingston, Robin Yoshimura, and Steve Wilson, all alumni of the Kellogg School of Management, were honored at the “With Gratitude, Kellogg” awards on April 30th. They were presented their awards by Kellogg Dean Sally Blount ’92, who thanked the recipients for their service to Kellogg. Continue reading…
Kellogg MBA Teams Win Big at Various Case Competitions
This article was originally sourced from Best-Case Scenario, an article on the Kellogg website about student teams taking top honors in recent case competitions around the world.
The Bulls aren’t the only team in the Chicago Metro who are winning when it counts—in business competitions across the globe, teams from The Kellogg School of Management are taking home top prizes and first-place victories. Three different teams of MBAs won at the Wake Forest University School of Business Marketing Analytics Summit, The 5th Annual Deloitte National MBA Case Competition and Wharton MBA Buyout Case Competition, respectively. Continue reading…
Booth MBAs Take Home First Place Prize at the 2015 Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition
A team of Chicago Booth MBA students came took home a $5,000 first-place prize at the 2015 Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition at Northwestern University. In additon to the money prize, Team Evidence– made up of Dr. Jonas de Souza, Lindsay Davis, Jason Lipes, and Barry Sandall, all of whom are Booth – also came home with a launch plan that included pricing and forecasting for Amgen’s medication Evolocumab, a newer cholesterol drug under FDA consideration. Continue reading…
Start-Up Spotlight: Kellogg’s David Hegarty and Fixed
This article was originally sourced from Start-Me-Up: David Hegarty ’07, part of Kellogg’s “Start Me Up” series, which spotlights members of the Kellogg community who are putting their entrepreneurial visions into practice.
David Hegarty constantly had issues with parking tickets. A Dubliner living in San Francisco, the Kellogg School of Management alum managed to accumulate four parking tickets over a few weeks last year. It was at that time that the idea for his Fixed app came to him.
The iOS-only app designed so that anyone who gets a ticket in San Fran simply needs to take a photo of the citation and submit it through the downloaded Fixed app. The Fixed team, in turns, drafts a letter to contest the ticket and submits it to the city. Hegarty’s business makes money by charging users 25 percent of the cost of the ticket if they overturn it successfully. If they fail to overturn it, there’s no financial obligation to Fixed — the user must simply pay the ticket to the city. Continue reading…
Start-Up Spotlight: Kellogg’s Adam Louras and Koa Organic Beverages
This article was originally sourced from Start-Me-Up: Adam Louras ’11, part of Kellogg’s “Start Me Up” series, which spotlights members of the Kellogg community who are putting their entrepreneurial visions into practice.
Kellogg School of Management alum Adam Louras was surprised when his doctor told him that he was pre-diabetic at the young age of 30. While at Kellogg, Louras often downed juice smoothies to save time– his rigorous studying schedule cut into the time it took to prepare traditional meals. While he thought that he was making a healthier food choices, in reality the smoothies he came to love and rely on were loaded with sugar.
Four years later, Louras is now the founder and chief executive of Koa Organic Beverages, a company that produces and bottles olakino beverages– vitamin-packed, sugar-free juice originating from Hawaii that can be pressed from fruits and vegetables. Continue reading…
REPEAT CHAMPS: Kellogg Team Takes First Place in Adobe Digital Analytics Competition
This article was originally sourced from the news piece “Big Data, Big Win” on Kellogg’s news and events page.
A team of One-Year Program students from the Kellogg School of Management once again emerged victorious at the Adobe Digital Analytics Competition. Alex Bourdeau, Yajur Kapoor and John Elder came in first place out of 66 competing teams to take first place in the case competition that challenged participants to use Adobe’s data analytics software to tackle the challenges real-world companies face online. Continue reading…
