A team of five SETU Waterford MBA students won the MBAAI All-Ireland Strategy Case Competition for an impressive fourth time earlier this month.
The competition provides students from the top MBA programmes in Ireland with the opportunity to solve a real-world strategy case problem in a high-pressure environment.
Organised by the MBA Association of Ireland, the competition is open to all MBA programmes across Ireland and past winners have included UCD, NUIG, DIT and DCU.
How the competition works
MBA students get the case in the morning and over a long day of work prepare a strategic analysis and presentation on a complex strategy case for a panel of judges.
The judges are drawn from leaders in significant companies and the panel was headed by Stuart Crainer from London Business School.
The winning SETU MBA team was Nial Reck, Paul Reilly, Ciara O’Reilly, Justin Collery and Dave O’Connor. The team were mentored and supported by MBA course director Dr Tom Egan, Strategy lecturer Dr Ray Griffin and Head of Graduate Business Prof Denis Harrington.
Commenting on the win, Prof. Denis Harrington said “The currency of an MBA is competition in the marketplace, and when the SETU MBA goes toe-to-toe with other Irish MBAs, more often than not, it comes out top. This is a testament to the excellent lecturing and facilities of our programme”
What makes SETU Waterford’s MBA special?
On the SETU Waterford MBA programme, you will develop skills and learn concepts that will accelerate your career, serving you throughout your professional life. The course is about personal accomplishment, new insights and frameworks for thinking, about building stronger skills, expanding horizons, good governance and leadership in a challenging corporate environment.
Our MBA Programme transforms individuals, who in turn go on to transform their organisations. The faculty who deliver on the MBA programme are exceptional research-led academics. This research also focuses on discovering the most powerful ways to train new leaders and putting those ideas into practice in our curriculum.