MBA students win MIT Sloan Sports Analytics First Pitch Case Competition
Desautels MBA students Jorge Tatto, Deepti Kaul, and Christian Mathews-Gagne triumphed over 43 other teams from around the world to win 1st place at the 2016 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference’s First Pitch Case Competition held on March 11 to 12. Taking second and third places were Cornell University and Old Dominion University, respectively.
The competition is for top graduate students from around the globe who are attending the conference. It allows evaluation and analysis of a major sports organization’s most challenging issues while providing a networking and educational platform for graduate students with sports career aspirations. In teams of three, students are tasked with analyzing and suggesting solutions for a challenging sports business issue. Previous years cases have been developed in conjunction with Ticketmaster, Zebra Technologies, MLB Advanced Media, the NFL, and AECOM. The 2016 competition was sponsored by Ticketmaster to provide graduate students with a fun, dynamic, and competitive learning experience to gain exposure to a challenging sports business issue.
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