Audi’s Global Business Case Competition (GBCC 2016)

The GBCC 2016 will take place at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University from 11th to 17th October.

The Team

Representing the University of Glasgow this year are “Meticulous Medley”. The team, which includes three students from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, are:

  • Mateusz Del Percio -  MA in Economics and Mathematics
  • Petr Perina -  MA in Business Economics and Business Management
  • Ivona Voroneckaja - MSci Statistics
  • Karol Yearwood - MA in Economics and Mathematics

The Competition

GBCC 2016 is designated for exclusively 12 teams from undergraduate business schools around the globe. The team, made up of four individuals, will pit their knowledge and skills against other teams in the divisions and then in the final round, which is open to a public audience.

Participating teams will face a “short case” challenge of just five hours and a “business case” challenge of 24 hours. In both challenges the team must analyse and prepare two innovative and logical business strategies for a real-world business case. The teams are also required to provide their complete solution of the case study, via presentation, as well as answering questions from a panel of judges.

Further information about the competition can be found on their website at https://gbccapublog.wordpress.com/

We wish the team the best of luck and look forward to hearing about it on their return.

Good luck Meticulous Medley!

Summer projects

There was a great deal of undergraduate research activity in the School this year, one of whom was funded by a College Scholarship, Lavina Bulai (Mike Whittaker). This also included four students, Aleksandra Boicuka (Ludger Evers), Sebastiano Cultrera di Montesano (Andrew Wilson), Ionut Paun (Chris Athorne) and Theodora Torcea (Luigi Vergori), funded by LMS undergraduate bursaries. Further funding came from Carnegie for Oliver Allen (Peter Stewart), the EPSRC for Matthew Robertson (Marian Scott, Claire Miller and Ruth O’Donnell), and two students were also funded by NERC IAPETUS Doctoral training programme, Dominic Brass (Christina Cobbold) and Anna Sehn (Marian Scott). In addition, three students received Erasmus funding to do summer projects overseas. They were Catriona Wedderburn and Blake Sims, who visited Bremen University in Germany, and Adeline Childs who visited the University of Calabria in Italy. A further two students, Rachael Nicol and Miya Pniel, participated in unfunded summer research projects. Both students were supervised by Andy Baker.

Six of those students gave short talks about their projects at an event on 28th July.

Student invited to speak at Undergraduate Conference in America

Lavinia Bulai, who is now starting in Level 5 Maths, was invited to give a talk at the Undergraduate Knot Theory Conference III held at Denison University in Ohio, USA, at the end of July.  Her expenses were partly covered by the conference with additional help from the School.  Her talk was entitled “Unlinking numbers of links with crossing number 10”, and was based on LMS-funded summer research done the previous year.

University of California Summer School

This summer the School hosted students from the University of California who exceeded expectations in completing their summer school program. Next year we are hoping to build on this success as we look to widen our summer activities.

First published: 10 October 2016

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