Kellogg Students Win Cornell Stock Pitch Competition

A team of first-year MBA students from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management won this year's "MBA Stock Pitch Challenge," organized and hosted by Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management.

The Kellogg students competed against teams from Cornell (Johnson), the University of Virginia (Darden), Carnegie Mellon (Tepper), Columbia, Duke (Fuqua), Dartmouth (Tuck), the Chicago GSB, the University of Michigan (Ross), and other top business schools.

A team of judges from UBS, Fidelity Investments, Wellington Management, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, and State Street Global Advisors listened to the teams' present their arguments for or against investing in a particular stock. Teams were judged on the quality of their analysis and presentation.

The winning Kellogg team won a $3,000 prize. A second prize of $1,500 went to the team from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business.

Source: "Northwestern Wins Cornell's Johnson School MBA Stock Pitch Competition," press release, the Johnson School (Ithaca, NY), November 3, 2006