McGill University Wins 4th Annual Innovation Challenge competition

 McGill’s School of Management is Crowned “Most Innovative MBA Team in the World” in Idea Crossing’s Premier Crowdcasting Competition for Innovation at Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia



LOS ANGELES, California and CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia-- November 22, 2006– A team from the Desautels School of Business at McGillUniversity, Montreal, has captured the title of “Most Innovative MBA Team in the World” at the recently concluded 2006 Innovation Challenge® competition at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the Universityof Virginia. Teams from the Kenan-FlaglerSchoolat the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and MIT’s Sloan School of Management finished second and third respectively.



This year’s competition attracted more than 440 teams from 88 colleges and universities, from more than 15 countries.  The 2006 Innovation Challenge® competition, the world’s oldest and largest “crowdcasting” innovation competition was sponsored this year by Hilton Hotels, DaimlerChrysler, Whirlpool Corporation, OPEN from American Express, General Electric Money, and M&M’s Chocolate Candies.