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LMI Announces Winners of Howard University MBA Exclusive Case Competition

Washington, DC, November 20, 2009—LMI recently sponsored the fifth annual Minority MBA Exclusive (MBAE) Supply Chain Management Case Competition, hosted by the Howard University School of Business, which pits top MBA candidates from across the country in a contest that challenges their analytic and communications skills using a practical problem.

The winners of this year’s competition were MIT, Sloan School of Management (first place, $5,000); Wake Forest University, Babcock Graduate School of Management (second place, $3,000), and University of Rochester, Simon Graduate School of Business (third place, $1,000).

Other participants included Howard University, Graduate School of Business; The University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School; Drexel University, LeBow College of Business; Yale University, School of Management; University of Pittsburgh, Katz Graduate School of Business; Baylor University, Hankamer School of Business; Clark Atlanta University, Graduate School of Business; Syracuse University, Whitman School of Management; and American University, Kogod School of Business.

LMI has sponsored this competition for five years, providing the case, based on real government issues, to which the student teams apply their skills. Past cases have involved emergency response activities, call center consolidation, implementation of complex enterprise software, and decreasing the costs of providing materiel to warfighters in Iraq. This year’s case was an examination of Amtrak’s logistics processes to improve the effectiveness of a new enterprise resource planning system.

Each competition team consists of three or four members, at least 50 percent of whom are from an ethnic minority group. One faculty or staff member serves as an advisor to each team and attends the competition. Fifteen research staff members from LMI acted as judges this year, and LMI Senior Vice President Jeff Bennett, a long-time supporter of the Howard University MBA program, spoke at the event’s closing reception.

The competition was part of Howard University’s 14th Annual MBAE, which took place at the Hilton Washington Embassy Row hotel November 5–6. This conference included workshops, a career fair, and the case competition and featured professional development, networking, and leadership components. MBAE 2009 offered companies access to a pool of MBA students and an opportunity to foster relationships with Howard University students, faculty, staff, and administrators.

LMI, a not-for-profit firm headquartered in McLean, Virginia, has served the government since 1961, seeking to improve agency management through independent analysis and counsel in logistics, infrastructure, and resource management.