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Courtney Ohr, created a game company named Gem Games that provided digitized cornhole boards. They won a total of three trophies for Best Written Documents, Best Presentation and Runner-
A new record in success
team (pictured on the left from top to bottom, left to right), with Gary Rendek, Kelsey Breer, Nikole
Up in Overall Performance. “We faced a number of challenges such as losing a team member early on in the competition, as well as decisions that we had
College of Business graduate students competed
Layton, Patricia Schmidt, Sierra Ambrosek and
in the 57th annual International Collegiate Business
Metamorphic Interiors and won a trophy for Best
Strategy Competition (ICBSC), taking home five
Written Documents. Kelsey Breer, Chief Financial
trophies - a new record for the College of Business.
Officer, said that, “Early on, we struggled finding
This year was the first time two Idaho State teams
the best process to make quarterly decisions
have competed in different “worlds” and, due to
efficiently. As time went on, we found a flow that
Both teams also won a trophy for Overall Winner of
COVID restrictions, the competition took place
worked for us to make predictions more exact and
the Stock Market Competition.
entirely via Zoom.
decisions much faster.”
Sophia Perry, created a furniture company called
to adapt and learn from,” said Jeff Morgan, Chief Executive Officer. “However, in the end I think we realized these obstacles were only setbacks that ended up creating a stronger, more cohesive group by the end of the competition.”
“I am so impressed by how well both of our teams
The teams ran under the guidance of co-advisors
The second team (pictured on the right from top
navigated those challenges and how adept they
Dawn Konicek and Alex Bolinger, professors of
to bottom, left to right), with Jeff Morgan, Chase
have become at collaborating via web conferencing
accounting and management respectively. The first
Downs, Marcus Peterson, Marisa Palermo and
software,” Bolinger commented.
