Rutgers Business School students won the Institute for Supply Management case competition reported in The Business Journals

A team of three Rutgers Business School students won the recent Institute for Supply Management's annual indirect procurement case competition in Phoenix.
The undergraduate supply chain management students – Dwight Gonzales, Sheryll Moser and Alexandra Preziosi – were required to analyze a lengthy case involving GlaxoSmithKline's spending on contracted legal services and to recommend ways the company could better manage its spending on litigation.

"We knew we had a good chance of winning," Moser said. "We were very competitive, and we had some good ideas, but we also knew we had a lot of strong competition."

Paul Goldsworthy, a supply chain management instructor who advised the team, said the students came up with a system of scoring law firms that would help company executives determine if a legal case could be better handled by outside lawyers or inside counsel.

"They had a pretty unique way of doing it," Goldsworthy said.

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