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2025 MECC Winning Teams

First Place

Team: Slam Solutions

Second Place

Team: Mendoza Consulting Group

Third Place

Team: The Sharks

Congratulations to all 2025 Finalists

The 2025 competition featured the “When Solutions are in Search of Problems: New Venture Creation in the Booming Market of Digital Speech Recognition” case from Sage Business Cases. Competing teams represented five universities: Purdue University, Michigan State University, Indiana University Bloomington, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Illinois Chicago. Thank you to Sage Business for sponsoring this years event! Read more about this competition here.

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 2025 Case Competition was on market research for digital speech recognition products. Congratulations to our finalist teams! Learn more.

The 2024 Case Competition was on the topic of market validation for a startup company. Learn more.

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

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