2011 Inclusive Excellence Case Competition 

Daniels hosted the second annual Inclusive Excellence Business Case Competition during Daniels Week on April 27, 2011.  Competing Sponsors Aurora Bank, MolsonCoors and CenturyLink (formerly Qwest) each had four teams compete in the morning round.  Program Sponsor Kaiser Permanente had an executive judge in the final round.

Students were challenged to put together the most diverse team possible. This year, six DU Colleges were represented: Daniels College of Business, Graduate School of Social Work, Korbel School of International Studies, Morgridge College of Education, Natural Sciences and Sturm College of Law.

Pictured: Team Compass Solutions -- Dustin Charapata, Qianyuan Zhang, Kait Vinson, Saran Stewart.

 

A panel of executives judged the final round of the competition.

Pictured:

Alma Vigo-Morales, Sr. Manager, Diversity Development, Kaiser Permanente

Karen Padgett, President and CEO, Novus Biologicals

Kevin Reddy, CEO, Noodles & Co.

Cathey McClain Finlon, President, Denver Art Museum

Anthony Graves, Director, Government & Community Affairs, Visit Denver

Gint Baukus, SVP, Global Talent Management, Western Union

Lawry Scicluna, VP, Human Resources (Retired), Ball Corporation

Qwest's team, Excellence Consulting, won first place and the team received $8,000 in scholarships.

Pictured: Frank Mattheus, Monica Williams, Houhui Leng, Chari-Lynn Koppel, Tim Russell, Rahul Sharma, Izzy Murdy, Tina Williams.

The MolsonCoors team, Group of Four, came in second place and received $4,000 in scholarships.

Pictured: Dave Aguliera, Dean Christine Riordan, Peter Knox, Wanling Zhu, Matteo Mosca, Missi Freimark, and Provost Gregg Kvistad.

Aurora Bank's team, Mosaic, placed 3rd in the competition.  The team was awarded $2,000.

Pictured: Provost Gregg Kvistad, Dean Christine Riordan, Marc Dawson, Beau Brooks, Amanda Gonzalez, Lisa Liming Huang, Dave Aguilera of CBS4 Denver.

Lieutenant Governor Joseph Garcia spoke at the VIP Reception.