School of Management Names Case Competition Winners

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A team of four students in the University at Buffalo School of Management will share a $3,000 prize as winners of the second annual On Target Undergraduate Case Competition.

Bevano Lianto of Indonesia, Andrew Widjaja of Indonesia, John Willett of Williamsville and Qiliang Yu of Brooklyn comprised the winning team.

The competition, sponsored by Target Corp., is intended to help undergraduate students hone their analytical, problem-solving and teamwork skills.

Twenty teams representing 77 students entered the competition. For the final round of the competition on March 1, the top five teams presented their analyses and recommendations for a case involving how Target could effectively staff its stores with teams as its enters the competitive labor market of 2010.

Six individuals from Target Corp. served as judges for the final presentations: Bill Hall, vice president for upstate New York, central Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and West Virginia; Randy Joseph, district team leader; Steve Robinson, district assets protection team leader; John Cardarella, human resources business partner; Andrea Vaughn, human resources business partner; and Ben Gregory, store team leader.

The Wall Street Journal ranks the UB School of Management 9th in the nation among schools with strong regional recruiting bases. In addition, BusinessWeek ranks the school as one of the country's top 5 business schools for the fastest return on MBA investment, and Forbes cites it as one of the best business schools in the U.S. for the return on investment it provides MBA graduates. For more information about the UB School of Management, visit http://mgt.buffalo.edu.

The University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, a flagship institution in the State University of New York system that is its largest and most comprehensive campus. UB's more than 28,000 students pursue their academic interests through more than 300 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs. Founded in 1846, the University at Buffalo is a member of the Association of American Universities.