Top ten finish for York’s student entrepreneurs
Posted on 7 February 2008
Around 250 teams entered the IBM Universities Business Challenge and the York team's participation in the final at IBM headquarters in London on 7 March guarantees them a top ten finish.
Our recognition of each others' strengths and weaknesses....enabled us to build complementary and broadly-based skill sets
Andrew Wells
Team members Katherine Groom, Laura Williams, James Jones, Suraj Gangani and Andrew Wells believe they have established a strong team dynamic - and they have enjoyed working together.
Andrew Wells attributed success to "our recognition of each others' strengths and weaknesses, which enabled us to build complementary and broadly-based skill sets."
Professor Steven Toms, the Head of the York Management School said: "All the staff at the Management School are really proud of the students' achievement. Their entrepreneurial team-spirited attitude is exactly what we try to encourage, and, as the students have shown, it gets results in the business world."
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Notes to editors:
- More information on The York Management School at www.york.ac.uk/management/
- For a picture of The York Management School team, contact David Garner on 01904 432153 or dcg501@york.ac.uk
- More information on the Universities Business Challenge at www.universitiesbusinesschallenge.com/content/this_years_finalists.asp