An interdisciplinary case competition on Nov. 14 will bring together Syracuse University
students and JPMorgan Chase corporate partners to explore issues related to innovation and
information.
Four teams of four undergraduate students will each choose one of four given topics-
"Innovation in Financial Services," "Going Green," "Knowledge Transfer and
Management" or "Privacy/Ethics in Information Usage." The teams represent four
academic units within SU -- the School of Information Studies (iSchool),
The College of Arts
and Sciences, the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS) and the
Whitman School of Management.
The students were selected by their home schools or colleges. The team members from the
four participating schools are sophomore James Benninger, senior Andrew Kieffer,
sophomore Mike Loiero and sophomore Maxine Shaw from the iSchool; senior Chad
Brooker, junior Lane Musgrave, senior Joonas Niiholm and senior Drew Sullivan from The
College of Arts and Sciences; senior Peter Frey, senior Mike Lattar, junior Jeremy McCarthy
and senior Gafei Szeto from LCS; and senior Jocelyn Lederman, senior Harris Levinson,
junior Nicole Quidley and junior Gary Stefanski from the Whitman School.
The student teams will have to research the problems and solutions within their chosen topic
as it pertains to JPMorgan Chase and JPMorgan Chase's core businesses. The students must
then create a 15-minute presentation detailing their findings, present to four JPMorgan
Chase judges, and field a five-minute Q&A session. The judges are University Professor of
Practice Jeff Saltz and Drew Foster '05, Lauren O'Brien and Michelle Koch, all of JPMorgan
Chase.
Each participating team will win an award, from $1,750 for the first-place team down to
$250 to the fourth-place team. The competition will take place in Hinds Hall.
