{"id":48195,"date":"2021-06-29T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/us\/en\/blog\/?p=48195"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:20:39","slug":"sbsc-2021-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/us\/en\/blog\/sbsc-2021-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners announced: The 2021 Small Business School Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another year, another <\/span><a href=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/small-business-school-challenge-2021\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small Business School Challenge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> success!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This past April, hundreds of MBA students were paired with small businesses to provide strategies and actionable recommendations to boost their business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the course of 48 hours, the teams developed innovative approaches, identified opportunities and areas for improvement, conducted detailed research and planning, and networked with other businesses and industry leaders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading h2\">Real business improvement, thanks to the SBSC<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Small Business School Challenge is a lot more than just a networking event between business owners and MBA candidates. In fact, we\u2019ve seen lasting benefits for those businesses who participated in previous years:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">68% of the small businesses implemented the proposals that their MBA teams made<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">47% of them saw business improve by more than 20%<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">43% of them were able to rehire staff they had to lay off at the beginning of the pandemic<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"heading h2\">Congratulations to this year\u2019s SBSC winners<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking the top 3 spots on the national stage were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National first place<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The MBA team from Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College \u2013 Emily Skopov, Ruchita Dunung, and Gisselt Gomez representing their business client Bagelati<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National second place<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The MBA team from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business \u2013 Drew Schneider, Deudutta Negori, and Varun Tyagi representing their business client BookBuyers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National third place<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The MBA team from Washington University in St.Louis, Olin School of Business \u2013 Arajit Samanta, Scott Horan, and Michael Weaver representing their business client Ted Rhodes Foundation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"heading h2\">Learn more about the Small Business School Challenge&#8230; and get ready to apply!<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark you calendar \u2014 the next SBSC happens in the Fall of 2021. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interested in applying?\u00a0 Here\u2019s some additional reading you might want to check out:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thesbschallenge.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small Business School Challenge website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to learn more about the contest<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See the full <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thesbschallenge.com\/news\/announcing-the-winning-teams-of-the-sbsc-iii\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">full list of this year\u2019s winners<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/us\/en\/blog\/retail-business-advice\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6 strategies for retail businesses from top MBA programs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d: This article shares some of the hottest advice for small businesses from last year\u2019s Challenge\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud83e\udd1d \u200aWant a closer look into how small businesses are finding unmatched success using RingCentral? 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