Mays Full-Time MBA student wins PepsiCo Case Competition
November 5, 2018
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Mays Business School
COLLEGE STATION, Nov. 5, 2018 – Full-Time MBA student Stephen Haworth helped lead his team to first place at the PepsiCo case competition at TCU from Oct. 26-27.
Haworth was randomly placed into a team of MBA students from other schools and programs. The teams had Friday night to meet one another and had the first half of Saturday to prepare the case given to them by PepsiCo. The second half of Saturday was devoted to presenting the results each team came up with. These presentations were given to PepsiCo executives.
On Saturday evening, results were announced. Stephen Haworth and his colleagues from Columbia, Vanderbilt, and TCU were given first prize for their efforts on the case. Haworth and his teammates were awarded $7,000 for their work on the case.
About the competition
This is the fourth MBA case competition held at TCU through a partnership with the Neely School of Business and PepsiCo. PepsiCo judges included vice president of finance Ralph Goedderz, senior vice president and CFO Stefano Sartoretti, vice president of financial planning Jim Hathaway, senior director of eCommerce Kyle Gore, and senior marketing manager Hana Golden.
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Media contact: Kelli Reynolds, Communications Specialist, Mays Business School,
(979) 845-3167, kreynolds@mays.tamu.edu
