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MIT Sloan Wins 24th Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition

A team from MIT Sloan won this year’s Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition, sponsored by Moderna and Medtronic. Teams from Dartmouth Tuck and Chicago Booth finished second and third. Honorable mention awards went to teams from Kellogg and SDA Bocconi.

A remarkable 57 teams applied to this year’s competition. A total of 26 teams progressed to the first round and then 12 teams advanced to the finals. In addition to the winning schools, the final round included teams from Harvard, USC Marshall, Johns Hopkins Carey, Berkeley Haas, Wharton, and UVA Darden.

The Kellogg Biotech + Healthcare Case Competition is one of the oldest and most prestigious case competitions in the world. The format of the competition has remained generally consistent over the years: teams of students from top universities work on a complex healthcare problem and present their analysis and recommendations. Judges from top healthcare firms evaluate the presentations and select the winners. The top three teams receive prizes of $5,000, $3,000 and $1,000.

In the first round of the 2025 competition, teams had to forecast sales of Neffy, a new inhaled epinephrine. The final round question asked teams to consider six different disease states for investment in R&D and commercialization. Which areas were most attractive? Why?

Information on the 2026 competition will be available by September 1, 2025.

2025 Winners

 

MIT Sloan: 

David Powell

Jonathan Stern

Shani Fargun

Dartmouth Tuck:

Gopal Velagala

Jon Ross

Allyson Conlin

Valerie Abbruzzese

Chicago Booth:

Joey Federico

Jeffrey Blethen

Michael Jaharis

Colleen Foley

Northwestern Kellogg:

Nisha Palanisamy

Hannah Philip

Morgan Lees 

Qazi Rehan

 

Bocconi:

Valeria Martinez Boucher

Gianfranco Ruberto

Oriane Cazergue

Konstantin Genkin

Edward Sykes

 

Kellogg Biotech + Healthcare Case Competition

Every year, student teams from around the world gather in Evanston to compete in the Kellogg Biotech + Healthcare Case Competition

 

 

Previous Case Competitions

Kellogg Team Wins 2024 Biotech and Healthcare Case Competition

On January 27, twelve teams from eleven top business schools competed in the 2024 Kellogg Biotech + Healthcare Case Competition in Evanston, Illinois. This was the 24th year of the event, and once again competition was fierce. Moderna sponsored the weekend.

A team from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management won the competition, with a team from Chicago Booth finishing second.

The topic this year: how can Novo Nordisk ensure that under-served communities in the United States benefit from the weight-loss drug, Wegovy? The case was complex, forcing teams to consider a range of dynamics from market access to physician education to patient acceptance. Given the enormous potential population for weight-loss drugs as well as capacity constraints, how should Novo approach the opportunity? Obesity is linked to a range of health-issue, but the cost and patient hesitancy are major barriers.

The winning teams developed thoughtful plans that addressed multiple stakeholders in a creative, strategic way. The teams then presented their recommendations with confidence and conviction.

The final round teams came from a remarkable collection of schools: SDA Bocconi School of Management, Johnson School of Business at Cornell, Chicago Booth, Duke Fuqua, Northwestern Kellogg, Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University, Jones School of Business at Rice University, Michigan Ross School of Business, and Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

A total of 64 teams from 25 schools in 7 countries applied to the event. Judges were healthcare executives from companies including AbbVie, Astellas and Lundbeck.

The winning team from Kellogg: Allie Myers, Kyle Reed, Olivia Bounadere, Jon Chuko and Mahbod Pourriahi.

The second place team from Chicago Booth: Hayden Koerwer, Liisa Parts, Amrish Soundararajan, Pengyu Yi.

First place team from Kellogg

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