MY YEAR WITH AMERICORP – RESTORE RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

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$College of Business Business Students Compete in Northwestern Mutual Integrated Business Case Competition The University of North Texas College awarded more than $6,000 in prizes to student winners of the Northwestern Mutual Integrated Business Case Competition on Dec. 1. The Northwestern Mutual Integrated Business Case Competition provides graduating seniors in the UNT College of Business the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills to solve a complex business problem. Each semester students are divided into teams and given a case study for an actual company. The competition is designed to reward creative solutions that cut across traditional functional boundaries. Five teams, selected out of 28 total teams, moved into the finals and presented their strategic recommendations for the ReStore operations of the Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity. ReStore sells new and gently-used home improvement goods, furniture, home accessories, building materials and appliances to the public at a fraction of the retail price. The proceeds are used by local Habitat for Humanity affiliates to help build and renovate more homes and communities. There are 825 ReStores in the United States and Canada. The winning teams were: First Place: Justin Caldwell, Linda Braund, Preston Pavla’T, Aleksey Gurov, Benjamin Dethlefs and Sunny Malik Second Place: Christopher Bennett, Maria Gloria, Steven Hicks, Robert Knox, Jonathan Moncrief, Patrick Russell, Trevor Sailors and Andrew Shuster Third Place: Grant Saab, Emily Johnston, Michael Patterson, Brendan Knickerbocker, Caroline Cremer and Vinh Truong Judges for the competition included Ron Collins, vice president of ReStore, Bernardino (Dino) Martinez, store manager of ReStore, Patrick Matthews and Hugh McFadden, managing directors at Northwestern Mutual – The Texas Financial Group and Dr. Finley Graves, dean of the College of Business. “The competition provides a great opportunity for students to showcase how much they have learned throughout their entire education at UNT,” said Dr. Grant Miles, course instructor and associate professor of management. “They put countless hours of work into creating presentations that will ultimately provide useful recommendations for ReStore.” In Fall 2011, Tait Cruse, a 1989 UNT graduate and managing partner of Northwestern Mutual Financial Network -The Texas Financial Group Dallas, made a four-year commitment to name the Northwestern Mutual Integrated Business Case Competition. The agreement solidified a partnership with the College of Business which fully funds student cash prizes and logistical costs for the program. “I chose to sponsor this program for four years, to the amount of $100,000, because I truly believe, as an Alumnus, this class ties everything together that they’ve learned in the last four years in the Business School,” said Cruse. It requires the students to use real world experience to develop their case presentation in order to qualify in the final round of the competition. This is truly a hands-on class that helps them prepare for the real world. I could not be more excited about sponsoring this program.” For more information about the Northwestern Mutual Integrated Business Case Competition,$

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MY YEAR WITH AMERICORP – RESTORE RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

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