MANSFIELD, Pa. – A group of Mansfield University students placed in the top-5 nationally in the CSBS Community Bank Case Study Competition for the second consecutive year.
The team includes Jonah Brandt (Towanda, Pa.), Aaron Butters
(Troy, Pa.), Sarah Hart (Wellsboro, Pa.), and Anthony Mastroianni (Tunkhannock,
Pa.) and is advised by business administration faculty Atika Benaddi, Xiaoxuan
Ji, and Xia Zhou. The team worked closely with C&N Bank on the case.
The five finalists were Mansfield University, Mississippi
State University, Southeastern Louisiana University, The University of
Tennessee at Martin and the University of Arkansas. The case studies looked at
what community banks have done to both adapt to the pandemic environment and
promote diversity, inclusion and economic fairness.
“We’ve been extremely impressed by the care and
thoughtfulness with which these teams prepared their case studies,” said CSBS
Executive Vice President Jim Cooper. “Their work has produced a variety of
interesting insights into how banks navigated two of the most important
developments of the past year.”
CSBS received submissions from colleges and universities
across the country. The Case Study Competition, now in its seventh year, is
open to undergraduate students in all fields of study as an opportunity to gain
valuable first-hand knowledge of the banking industry. The finalists advanced
through two rounds of judging and an original pool of 35 participating teams
representing 29 universities.
Learn more about business administration at Mansfield University at mansfield.edu/business-administration.