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Simon Students Vie to Win Mark Ain Business Model Competition

Release Date: Apr 04, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Charla Stevens Kucko, (585) 273-4806

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Rochester, N.Y.-April 4, 2007-Aspiring student entrepreneurs at the Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester, will present their business models to a panel of judges during the first annual Mark Ain Business Model Competition on April 9, 2007, from 4:45–6:30 p.m. in Schlegel Hall, Room 201.

Three teams of Simon student finalists will compete to win $10,000 toward the implementation of their business plan. The competition is made possible by support from Simon alumnus and entrepreneur Mark S. Ain '67, founder of Kronos Incorporated, the Chelmsford, Mass.-based market leader in the workforce management industry.

In addition to Ain, the panel of judges will include Edward J. Ackley '64 ('53 UR), owner and president of The Filter Store in Mendon, N.Y., and former C.E.O. of Consler Corporation (now owned by Graver Technologies); Bob Tobin, entrepreneur and instructor for the University of Rochester's Young Entrepreneurs Academy; and Gina Marie Mangiamele, staff advisor to the Simon Entrepreneurs Club. The competition is sponsored by Simon Entrepreneurs, a student-run club whose mission is to promote entrepreneurship at the Simon School.

The Simon School prides itself as the place Where Thinkers Become Leaders™ and is currently ranked among the leading graduate business schools in the world in rankings published by the popular press, including BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Forbes. For example, in the most recent BusinessWeek poll, the Simon School was ranked among the top 30 business schools in the United States. The Financial Times recently rated the School 4th in the world for finance 6th in the world for both accounting and managerial economics. More information about the Simon School is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.simon.rochester.edu.

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The Simon School prides itself as the place Where Thinkers Become Leaders™ and is currently ranked among the leading graduate business schools in the world in rankings published by the popular press, including BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Forbes. For example, the Financial Times recently rated the School 2nd in the world for finance and 5th in the world for managerial economics. More information about the Simon School is available on the World Wide Web at www.simon.rochester.edu.