On April 12, 2017, three teams of undergraduates at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business competed in the 2017 KPMG Excel Competition at the annual TechFest event. The event is organized by the school’s department of decisions, operations and information technologies and two student clubs: BITS and iTBT.
The teams analyzed Yelp review data for all restaurants in College Park to generate business insights and present their findings and recommendations on opening a new restaurant in College Park to the KPMG judges. Students who are in BMGT301 were invited to participate in the competition.
Special thanks to KPMG and congratulations to all students who participated in the event and the following winners:
- First prize ($450): Michael Koscinski and Derek Xiao
- Second prize ($300): Abbey Cerciello, Allyson Convers and Angelina Lyubimova
- Third prize ($250): An Xu, William Lu and Joon Hwang
For more information about the undergraduate program at Smith, visit: www.rhsmith.umd.edu/undergrad.
Media Contact
Greg Muraski
Media Relations Manager
301-405-5283
301-892-0973 Mobile
gmuraski@umd.edu
About the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business
The Robert H. Smith School of Business is an internationally recognized leader in business education and cutting-edge research. The school’s world-class faculty facilitate experiential learning opportunities rooted in the real world. Smith students learn to think like entrepreneurs, prepared to drive positive impact. The school offers undergraduate, online and on-campus business master's, full-time, part-time, online and executive MBA, plus PhD and DBA degree programs, and non-degree and executive education programs. Where Smith leads, the future follows.