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2024 MECC Winning Teams

First Place

Team: Great Lakes 

Second Place

Team: Stratton Oakmont

Third Place

Team: SASH Consulting 

Congratulations to all 2024 Finalists

Five teams, including 20 participants from five institutions, Indiana University–Bloomington, Michigan State University, Purdue University–West Lafayette, St Louis University, and University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, advanced to the final round of presentations, which was held virtually on Saturday, February 24th. Winning teams received up to $1,000 in cash prizes, courtesy of SimplyAnalytics. 

Previous Case Competitions


The 2024 Case Competition was on the topic of market validation for a startup company. Congratulations to our finalist teams! 


Click here to learn more about last year's competition



The predecessor to the MECC was the Midwest Business Libraries Case Competition (formally the Parrish Library Case Competition). 


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Further Reader

Further reading is also available via this analysis by one of this competition's organizers, Ilana Stonebraker: 

Stonebraker, I. (2017). Library-sponsored case competitions: Best practices and assessment of learning gains. Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 22(1), 46–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/08963568.2016.1258937