Gavin Purdy '23 and Teddy Zinn '25 represented 黑料不打烊 in the corporate social responsibility-focused competition hosted by the University of Arizona.
Entrepreneurship major Gavin Purdy 鈥23 and finance and project management double major Teddy Zinn 鈥25 represented 黑料不打烊 in the 20th annual Collegiate Ethics Case Competition hosted by the University of Arizona鈥檚 Center for Leadership Ethics.
The pair, mentored by Associate Professor of Business Law Christy Benson, joined students from schools around the world for the Oct. 13-15 competition held in Tucson, Arizona. Role playing as financial consultants to the senior leadership of a non-profit university foundation, teams evaluated whether the university should invest a significant amount of endowment funds into cryptocurrency. Teams鈥 evaluations and recommendations needed to account for stakeholder, economic, legal and ethical considerations.
The judges, who included University of Arizona faculty, executives from companies such as 3M and Hewlett-Packard, and Tucson-local business owners, evaluated presentations on delivery, depth of analysis, persuasiveness, creativity, recommendations in both an ethical and practical context, and responses to the judges鈥 questions.
鈥淭he competition was an incredibly cool experience to grow as a person and network with others my age,鈥 Purdy shared. 鈥淚t allowed me to explore areas outside of my comfort zone and identify aspects of myself that I can work on to become the best I can be.鈥