L~. stuciiH his company's assecs ID prepariog to make a t111n1 l"'OIDd cledsion in tbe Emory bluiDess games. Business·Barons De_f~afe-d~ by; lri"'sl1 Harding's. ,business team placed. firot in its industry and finished seccnd to Notre Dame in over:aU: competition in the Intercoll~ Business Games sponsored .by Emory University which 'O'as completed in Atlanta with a three-day conference last week. The thirty-nine schools repre– sented in the contest were divided into industries in which competition was direct. Fifty per cent of the judging at Emory for this industry com· petition was based on the quanti· tative results of six weeks of managing computer . simulated businesses; ten per cent, on the annual report; and 40 per cent, on the oral presentation. Harding defeated such schools as Auburn, William and Mary and Austin Peay to win its in· dustry by a unanimous vote of the judjl;es, with the best overall quantitative results. annual re– p<lrt and presentation. Other in· dustrv winners were Northeast Missouri State, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt and Loyola of New Orleans. The first day of the confer– ence included the announcement of the results from the final round of compater competition and an address by Walter F. Berac, Partner-in-Charge of · Customer Services for Ernest & Ernest, Public Accounting Finn. Lynn Dix.im_gave an oral pre– sentation of the team's strategy, and the entire team defended the strategy iri a question and answer period for industry com– petition on the next day. At a – dinner at the Regency Hyatt House that night, winners were announced, and Ely R Gal– loway, president of Burlington Industries spoke to-the_group. - On the final day the fiw in– dustry winners gave their pre-• sentations to a panel of five judges, three from Emory's Graduate School of Business. and two from the business world. The final conference championship was determined on the basis of the oral pre– sentations of team strategy and defense to this panel. This was Harding's fourth year to participate in the games. Last year the team took first in both its industry and the over-an· competition. No team has won the contest twice. David Burks, faculty· advisor lor the t~m. said that "the team certaimy gave their all toward their goal of winning the over-all championship lor the s~ond year in a row. I feel they accomplished that goal as they definitely were ahead quantitatively, they definitely had the best annual report of all forty teams represented, and in my judgment, gave an excellent and superior presenta– tion ol their stragtegy and de– fended it perfectly. "I am particularly proud of the tremendous contribut;ons made by both~ Dixon, designated as P ~ of our company,. and Don Hicks, desig– nated as Board Chairman, as they provided the senior lead– ership necessary to achieve this success.'' Other team members were Ri~. Mark Milhollen, Dimox Reeye and Mike Cole. Business Team Retires Trophy Harding's business team won first place among over fifty schools represented at the Inter– national Intercollegiate Market– ing Competition at Michigan State University last Saturday. Harding became the first school to win the first place award three times and retire the trophy since Dr. W. J. E. Crissy began the program in 1963. Other first place winners have been Kent State ('63), Notre Dame ('64, '69), Univer– sity of South Carolina ('65) and Bowling Green ('67). In this year's competition Rider College of Baltimore was second; Louisiana State Univer– sity, third; Lawrence Institute of Technology, fourth ; Duquesne, fifth; Notre Dame, sixth; and Ohio State, seventh. 3240 Decisions Harding's team members were captain Rick Venable, Barry Milton, Rodney Waller and Diana Dooley. Alternates Su– zanne Holland and David Sain were able to particiPate m the making of 3240 decisions for the computer - simulated company that the team managed. This was Venable's third year to par– ticipate in the games and sec– ond year to act as captain of the team. Milton was also in last year's contest. The games were played over a seven month period. Sixty per cent of the final score was based on the computer competition which was divided into ten periods to represent ten months of business. Harding received its best sr.ore ever in this area this year. Forty percent of the score was based on the written and oral presentations. The team spent 480 hours preparing these for the finals in East Lansing. Billy Ray Cox, faculty sponsor for the ~am. said that this team iJ!:FM- .. -li· ~~ was better prepared than any before. They were able to antici– pate and to prepare answers for all but one of the judges' ques– tions. Oral Presentation Venable gave the twenty– minute oral presentation. The clock had to be stopped during the timed competition because of spontaneous applause from the ~~~~. audience, who later gave Har– ding a standing ovation. Harding w a s unanimously chosen for first place by the five judges. They were the vice president of the Oldsmobile division of General Motors, the vice president of Kimberly– Clark, the vice president of Sil– vania, the faculty advisor from Notre Dame and the faculty ad- ~..... visor from Dyke College. When Dr. Wharton, president of Michigan State, presented the first place trophy to Harding after the luncheon on Saturday, the team again received standing ovation. In the six years that Harding has participated in .the ,games, it has received three first .............,.. places, two second places and on_e eighteenth place. Standards Set Richard Lewis, Chairman the Marketing Department of Michigan State and the director ~.J..:..• of the competition, said that in lf.c,;'"t.r...rj the business games "Harding sets the standards of quality. Harding means excellence at Michigan State." Cox feels that "The fact that we received a five minute ova- ~ tion even when we were the -.::-.:.L– smallest school in competition is indicative of the tremendous respect for our ability to com– pete and excel as excellent in– dividuals. It was not just be- ~~l•i!{·:::-, cause we won but it our
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