A team of students from Griffith University’s five-star MBA program has enjoyed remarkable success at this year’s Global Business Challenge finals, taking second place among an overall competitive field comprising 98 teams from 38 universities across 14 countries.
This year hosted by Griffith and administered by the Queensland University of Technology, the fourth Global Business Challenge presented its participants with the project of designing ‘sustainable solutions to global problems’, a challenge to which Wendy Zernike, Erik Malan and Les Adams rose with aplomb through LRES (Long-term Renewable Energy Storage), their concept for making the move from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
From left: MBA Director Associate Professor Chris Fleming, Erik Malan, Les Adams, Wendy Zernike, team mentor Andrew Zaniewski and Pro Vice Chancellor (Business) Professor David Grant at the 2017 Global Business Challenge.
MBA Director Associate Professor Chris Fleming congratulated the team on their competition result, saying that he is “incredibly proud” of their achievement.
“The team has gone to