UB School of Management named competition winners

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 composed 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 it enters the competitive labor market of 2010.

Six individuals from Target Corp. served as judges for the final presentations.

The Wall Street Journal ranks the UB School of Management ninth in the nation among schools with strong regional recruiting bases. In addition, BusinessWeek ranks the school as one of the country's top five business schools for the fastest return on MBA investment, and Forbes cites it as one of the best business schools in the United States for the return on investment it provides MBA graduates.