HPM team takes podium finish at Seton Hall case competition
A year after a double podium finish, an HPM team was back on the podium at the Seton Hall case competition. The team of first-year MHA student Michaela Frey and first-year MHA/MBA student Ella Valencia came back from New Jersey with a third-place finish. Ella Valencia, Michaela Frey and MHA program director Kevin Broom with their winnings “The experience was overwhelming but ultimately rewarding in the end. As a first-year student who has never participated in a case competition before, approaching the case was daunting,” said Valencia. The team was presented with a case in which a hospital faced numerous problems but had limited funds to address them. “We had to pretty much create something out of nothing and compete with it,” said Frey. “Although that was a huge barrier, we had to keep reminding ourselves that everyone was working with the same limited information.” Like other teams competing in case competitions, Valencia and Frey researched, created, and perfected thei...