Team of business majors among 23 to compete
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A team of business majors took 2nd place at the in the 2016 Community Bank Case Study Competition. The students are seniors in the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Maria Davis (B.B.A.), Jacob Renner (B.B.A.), Dakota Sommerfield (B.B.A.) and Clara Stahl (M.S.F.) made up the UMKC team. Each team produced a 15-20 page paper and a 10-minute video to promote public awareness and an understanding of community banks and to stimulate interest among undergraduates in careers in community banking.
The competition theme was lending to small businesses, where each team evaluated their partner bank’s management of lending, the impact of the bank’s lending on the community and the impact on the bank’s financial performance.