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6-18-09
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Lycoming College senior students in Dr. Neil Boyd’s strategic management class, which is the Business Administration Department’s capstone course, recently completed consulting services with three local businesses. During the semester-long projects, students worked with Peter Sides of R.M. Sides Family Music Store, Sondra and Roger Stipcak of Ideal Police Canine, and Mike Hiller of the Bavarian-Barbarian Brewery.
At the beginning of the semester, Boyd asked each team to create a tribal name based on an emerging global market. Teams created names in the markets of India, China and Brazil. During the next six weeks, student consulting teams conducted strategic SWOT analyses of the organizations to determine external opportunities and threats, and internal strengths and weaknesses. After conducting the SWOT analysis, the teams worked for a month designing recommendations to improve various aspects of each business. Teams competed against each other in a final “Apprentice-like” showdown in Honors Hall to determine who designed the best recommendations for each business. The competition was judged by a panel of faculty business experts from the departments of business administration, accounting and economics, and top executives from each business.
The overall winner of the competition was Team Fire Tiger, which included Stephanie Ly, Kayla Scott, David Labagh, Bridget Lavan and Kayla Smith. The team worked with Ideal Police Canine, which trains and sells police dogs to law enforcement agencies for narcotic and bomb detection, and patrol work. By winning the competition, each senior student received the Senior Management Project Award.
Other winners and second place finishers are:
Bavarian-Barbarian Brewery Project
First Place:
Team Cusquena: Sean Berrier, Carlie Mowatt, Ashley Johnson, Amanda Tompkins, Dominik Imiela
Second Place:
Team Amazon: Melissa Earley, Sarah Hartshorne, Nicole McKibben, Thomas McVey, Francesca Piscitelli, Markell Sitler
Ideal Police Canine Project
First Place:
Team Fire Tiger: David Labagh, Bridget Lavan, Stephanie Ly, Kayla Scott, Kayla Smith
Second Place:
Team Ren Bin Me: Maggie Baier, Brittany Boas, Jemayne Nowlin, Amanda Raymond, Michelle Sisino
R. M. Sides Music Project
First Place:
Team Akbar: Gwyn Bertelson, Jason Dow, Daniel Matter, Cassi Kaiser
Second Place:
Team Bali: Nate Kraynak, Christina Myers, Mike Pinto, Gina Puscany, Colin Puskaritz
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