Student Activites at Daniels

Once again, I have predetermined my destiny (to be over committed) by eagerly agreeing to be a part of various activities and organizations during my time here at DU. I am highly enthusiastic about joining the graduate student led group Entrepreneurs in Action (EIA) whose mission is “To promote entrepreneurship at the University of Denver through alumni engagement, community involvement and hands-on learning opportunities.”

Another thrilling engagement that I have committed to is the Daniel’s signature case competition called “Race and Case". Race and Case as described by the second student MBA graduates is business ethics challenge in which teams (4 to 6 individuals) are given a prompt and after a specified duration of time, each team comes together for a preliminary competition. After making it to the next round, the selected teams will then have another competition presented in front of business executives. The last aspect is a NASTAR ski/snowboard racing (hence the name) event. This is were the teams select two men and two women members to compete. A few other key components include:

• The ethics based prompt is delivered to teams three weeks prior to competition date.
• Presentation length will not exceed 20 minutes.
• Presentation is followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.

Scoring System

Several improvements have been made to the scoring for 2011!
The score is weighted 80% on the case competition and 20% on the skiing.

Case Competition: A panel of judges will score each presentation. Each judge may award a maximum of 10 points each for 10 different criteria for a maximum of 100 points. Please refer to the official scorecard for the criteria on which teams will be judged. Each team's raw score will be carried over as their score for the case portion of the competition and multiplied by 0.8 to get the weighted score.

Ski Race: The race will be held on an official NASTAR course. Each participant may ski a maximum of three runs. Any team not comprised of at least two women and two men must accept a time of 50 seconds for each missing member. The two fastest women and two fastest men on each team will be individually ranked and given an individual score based on position. The team score will be the combined score of the top two men and the top two women. The maximum team score is 100 points. The team score will be multiplied by 0.2 to get the weighted score.

Both weighted scores will be added together to get the final team score.

I have a fantastic team this year and I strongly believe we will take home the "Gold"!
If you are interested in participating and you attend another school Race and Case is open to all students (not just Daniels) check out the link above.