MCINTIRE STUDENT TEAM WINS ONTARIO BUSINESS CONTEST

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 27 -- A team from the University
of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce swept top honors at a
recent case competition held at the University of Western Ontario in
London, Ontario.
	Three McIntire students beat teams from business schools
around the world at the seventh annual Harold Crookell HBA (Honors
in Business Administration) International Case Competition,
sponsored by the Canadian university's Western Business School, from
March 12-16.
	This year's competitors came from Austria, the Philippines,
the United States and Singapore to face off against defending
champions from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of
Business.  Undergraduate students from Western Business School
organize the competition, but don't participate. 
	This was the fourth time in seven years that McIntire
students took first place in the competition.  After winning for the
first three years, McIntire was required to sit out the next three
years.  This was the first year McIntire was allowed back.
	Judges said McIntire's team was the only one to propose the
solution to the problem that the company, which provided the case,
actually adopted:  What to do with a joint venture that doesn't
work?  Other teams suggested mediating between the parties;
McIntire's team advised dissolving the venture. 
	Most of the teams fielded five students, but McIntire's team
of four was down to three due to a family emergency.
	The competition is similar to the one hosted by McIntire and
sponsored by GE Fanuc Automation of North America Inc. each fall.
	On the first day of the competition, each team is given the
same case study -- a detailed account of a real-world business
situation -- which students must analyze.  After three days of
intensive study, a written report is submitted.  On the last day,
each team delivers a 20-minute oral presentation of its report
before a panel of judges and the winners are announced at the
closing banquet.  The winning team is invited back the following
year to defend its title.
	For more information, call the team's faculty advisors, Mike
Atchison (804) 924-7093 or Martha Maznevski, at (804) 924-3272.
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March 26, 1996
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