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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Adam Midden, a senior in the School of Business, and fellow team members won their case category during the Team Case Competition, sponsored by KPMG, at Beta Gamma Sigma’s (BGS) 2017 Global Leadership Summit. 

The Team Case Competition allowed 35 teams of business students to collaborate and provide a solution to a complex business scenario. Midden’s team won based on their innovative and creative solution for their assigned business case, as well as the effectiveness of their presentation. 

BGS’s annual Global Leadership Summit allows members to advance their leadership development, while building relationships with fellow leaders from around the world. 

During the Summit, held Nov. 2-5 in Orlando, students participated in a carefully cultivated series of leadership sessions designed to build upon each other to culminate in an intensive team competition. 

Competition judges consisted of business and community leaders, BGS’ leadership team, BGS board members, and deans from AACSB accredited business programs. Team presentations were evaluated based on evidence of preparation, content, consideration for innovation, delivery and discussion. Each presentation ended with a question and answer session with the judges. Then the winning teams displayed their business solutions to the full group of Summit attendees. 

Beta Gamma Sigma is the international business honor society, which operates exclusively for AACSB accredited programs. Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is highly selective, reserved for the top students within the 5% of business schools around the world that are eligible to establish Beta Gamma Sigma chapters. Beta Gamma Sigma has inducted more than 810,000 members worldwide since its founding in 1913. 

SIUE’s School of Business and the accountancy programs are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International, representing the highest standard of achievement for business schools worldwide. The Princeton Review lists SIUE as one of the top 294 business schools in the U.S. for the 11th-consecutive year. Undergraduate and graduate degrees are offered in accounting, computer management and information systems, economics, finance, management and marketing. More than 20,000 alumni have earned degrees from the SIUE School of Business. For more information about the School of Business, visit siue.edu/business. 

Photo: SIUE senior Adam Midden, second from the right, is shown with other members of the Red Team. On the left is Bernard “Bernie” Milano, who presented the awards to the students. Milan is a BGS board member, president of the KPMG Foundation, and president of The PhD Project Association.