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The Turnaround Management Association (TMA) announced last Tuesday the winners of the 2007 Carl Marks Student Paper Competition. Teams made up of Columbia MBA students won the first- and second-place awards in the case study category. The students were advised by Laura B. Resnikoff, associate professor of management and advisor to the student-run Private Equity and Venture Capital Club.
Submitted in general and case study categories, the winning papers were selected for their relevance to corporate distress, financial restructuring and reorganization along with the quality of the writing and analysis. The first-place team - Hamid Benbrahim 07, Rich Bozutto 07 (EMBA), Laurent Grossi 08, Geoffrey P. Teillon 07 and John Ure 07 - adopted the perspective of an adviser to the board of directors of Pier 1 Imports and suggested plans for increasing shareholders equity and returning the company to profitability. The second-place team - Christian Blinkenberg 07, Sachin Kadakia 07, Michael Yao 07 and Paul Zangrilli 07 - analyzed Trump Entertainment Resorts assets and operations and proposed a successful turnaround based on refinancing, selling two properties and improving existing operations.
The judging panel was most impressed by the high quality of the submissions from prestigious schools with excellent MBA programs, said Lisa Poulin, vice president of university relations at the TMA. The winning case studies were of a caliber that can be utilized for teaching turnaround issues facing companies today.
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May 31 is the deadline for entries in the Carl Marks Student Paper Competition, administered by the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) to recognize outstanding student achievement in the field of corporate renewal. Funds for a $3,000 first place prize and $1,500 second place prize in two categories are provided by Carl Marks Advisory Group LLC in New York. Travel expenses are also provided for one author of each winning paper to accept the awards at the TMA Annual Convention in Boston, October 16-19, 2007.
Papers by individuals or teams must be written between May 30, 2006, and May 30, 2007. Students
Turnaround Management Association Offers Cash Prizes for MBA Student Papers on Corporate Renewal; Deadline May 26
May 26 is the deadline for entries in the Carl Marks Student Paper Competition, administered by the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) to recognize outstanding student achievement in the field of corporate renewal. Funds for a $3,000 first-place prize and $1,500 second-place prize are provided by Carl Marks Advisory Group in New York. Travel expenses are also provided for winners to accept the awards at the TMA Annual Convention in Orlando, Oct. 11-14, 2006.
Papers by individuals or teams must be written between May 26, 2005, and
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