ACG Philadelphia Announces Winners of the 8th Annual Cup Competition
ACG Philadelphia presented the 8th annual Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Cup competition, sponsored by KPMG LLP on April 17, 2014. The Philadelphia Cup, which is open exclusively to MBA and MS Finance students attending top area universities, is a highly realistic private equity/investment banking case study competition that requires a combination of corporate strategy, finance and valuation skills. A total of $25,000 was awarded to to eight local MBA teams and every student who participated took home prize money and invaluable real world experience.
Teams from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, Saint Joseph’s University’s Haub School of Business, Villanova University’s School of Business, LaSalle University, Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business, Temple University’s Fox School of Business, LeBow College of Business – Drexel University and the University of Delaware’s Lerner College of Business all competed as finalists in the 2014 ACG Cup. The finalist teams were selected from Round One competitions that were held on-campus at each school. Each team analyzed and presented their solutions and recommendations to a complex business case in order to advance to the “ACG Philadelphia Cup” Finals. Continue reading…
Villanova MBA Students Compete in London
A team of four Villanova School of Business MBA students, Brandon Segal, Benjamin Littell, Rob Ostapowicz and Chris Poston, under the auspices of the Daniel M DiLella Center for Real Estate, advanced to the semi-finals of the MIT Real Estate Challenge, held at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, England.
The MIT Real Estate Challenge focuses on real estate acquisition, development programming and financial underwriting at the asset level. It mimics the professional circumstances and assignments that students interested in real estate finance, acquisitions and development are likely to encounter after graduation. The initial round of the competition gave teams five days to submit a comprehensive letter of intent, a fully functional Excel-based financial model and a summary PowerPoint presentation. A panel of judges then selected semi-finalist teams to travel to London. There, the top teams will present in front of an array of judges and industry professionals. The Villanova team was one of 12 semi-finalists selected among competitors representing 42 of the top graduate-level universities worldwide.
This competition gave these four Villanova MBA students comprehensive insight into the nuances of real estate finance, acquisitions and development, as well as an opportunity to compete on a global scale against a talented collection of graduate students. The achievement of these motivated students has broadened the scope of Villanova’s accredited DiLella Center for Real Estate and the nationally-ranked MBA program as a whole.
