What: With Mayor James Kenney, civic leaders and Wharton deans in attendance, two teams of University of Pennsylvania students co-won the Amazon HQ Case Competition at a finals event that supported the City of Philadelphia’s efforts to bid for Amazon’s second headquarters. The finals event aimed to showcase the Wharton School’s entrepreneurial, analytical and communications talent. The two teams were: Team Wharton Prime, which focused on Philadelphia’s financial and tax incentives and Team Delphi which focused on Philadelphia’s Strategic tech-focused incentives.
Penn is supporting the city’s pitch through direct outreach to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, serving on a city committee advocating for Philadelphia, and via the two Wharton student competitions.
Who: Find a complete list of finalists’ names below under “Additional Detail”
Available Materials: B-roll video, still images, presentation slide decks and more are all available upon request: winicov@wharton.upenn.edu
When: The Finals Event took place October 13, 2017, 10:00 a.m. -12:00 noon at Hoover Lounge, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
How: The Sign.al (a student publication) and MUSE (a Penn marketing club) hosted the case competition for students to pitch a proposal to the Mayor of Philadelphia. Teams of 2-4 enter under one of these subtopics:
1. Financial and tax incentives
2. Talent base and employee life incentives
3. Strategic tech-focused incentives
4. Current and new legal incentives
The case competition saw 24 teams enter, with four finalists, one for each subtopic, presenting at Wharton’s Hoover Lounge on October 13 to faculty judges naming two co-winners. Find the names of faculty judges below Under “Additional Detail.”
In addition to the case competition a Writing Competition conceived by the Wharton Communication Program recognized:
- Undergraduate Winner: Shehryar Khursheed
- MBA Winner: Brian Simel
(Note: Amazon is not a sponsor of either contest.)
Additional detail/Team Members’ Names
Co-Winning “Team Prime” for “Financial and tax incentives”
Joe Ammon
Chris Fletcher
Katie Miller
Gavin Yerxa:
(All are Wharton MBA students, Class of 2019)
Co-Winning “Team Delphi” for “Strategic tech-focused partnerships”
Jeffrey Cheng
Tanmay Chordia
Ameya Shiva
Johnathan Chen
(All are Dual Engineering/Wharton (M&T) undergraduates, Class of 2019)
Additional Detail/Faculty Judges
o Gad Allon
o Robert Inman
o Saikat Chaudhuri
o Sara Jane McCaffrey
o Susan Wachter
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