{"id":152188,"date":"2012-04-16T16:36:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T20:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/?p=152188"},"modified":"2025-04-02T08:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:51:21","slug":"schulich-team-beats-20-universities-for-top-spot-in-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2012\/04\/16\/schulich-team-beats-20-universities-for-top-spot-in-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Schulich team beats 20 universities for top spot in competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of MBA students from the Real Estate &amp; Infrastructure program at York\u2019s Schulich School of Business won top spot in the 2012 Argus Software University Challenge last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Schulich team, comprised of Amber Lam, Maxwell Vo, Anastasia Malina and Sarah Hsu, beat 20 other teams from universities across the United States and elsewhere to receive the $8,000 first-place prize.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-152189\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/yfile.news.yorku.ca\/files\/2012\/04\/SchulichTeamARGUSChallenge.jpg\" alt=\"The winning team from York's Schulich School of Business. From left, Maxwell Vo, Anastasia Malina, Sarah Hsu and Amber Lam\" width=\"400\" height=\"324\" \/>Right: The winning team from York's Schulich School of Business. <\/strong><strong>From left, Maxwell Vo<\/strong>, <strong>Anastasia Malina<\/strong>, <strong>Sarah Hsu<\/strong> <strong>and Amber Lam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andre Kuzmicki<strong>,<\/strong> executive director of Schulich's Real Estate &amp; Infrastructure program, helped prepare the team for the online competition.<\/p>\n<p>A team from the University of San Diego finished second and a team from the Stern School of Business at New York University came in third.<\/p>\n<p>The competition was based on Valuation Discounted Cash Flow (DCV) knowledge. The challenge included simulating a realistic investment analysis and composing a paper detailing the projected outcome of the investment opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>One team from each participating university also had to complete a case study \u2013 Investing in an Emerging Market: The Wizarding World created by Pernille Christensen, who holds a LEED-AP,\u00a0BD+C\u00a0certification and is a certified ARGUS Valuation-DCF Trainer.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a list universities that participated in the challenge:<\/p>\n<p>Cornell University<br \/>\nUniversity of North Carolina Chapel Hill<br \/>\nThe Pennsylvania State University<br \/>\nThe University of Chicago<br \/>\nUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison<br \/>\nClemson University<br \/>\nTexas A&amp;M University<br \/>\nJohns Hopkins University<br \/>\nYork University<br \/>\nUniversity of Colorado - Boulder<br \/>\nCalifornia State University \u2013 Easy Bay<br \/>\nUniversity of San Diego<br \/>\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<br \/>\nVanderbilt University<br \/>\nNew York University<br \/>\nCovenant University - Nigeria<br \/>\nUniversity of Laval<br \/>\nLouisiana State University<br \/>\nBaruch College<br \/>\nUniversity of Texas - Dallas<br \/>\nUniversity of Texas - Austin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of MBA students from the Real Estate and Infrastructure program at York's Schulich School of Business came in first in the 2012 Argus Software University Challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":152191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-152188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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