UAA students win business contest.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: Inside Alaska Business

Two University of Alaska Anchorage students won the Fall 2009 Capstone Business Competition, an international business simulation for college students. Elena Reierson and Chelsey Homan beat 788 other teams in the competition to see who can run the most profitable and productive company. Reierson and Homan were students in professor Edward Forrest's marketing management course.

"UAA has been participating in this competition for the last nine years, and has finished in the top 10 six other times - but this is the first time we have placed first in two of the success measures," Forrest said.

For the competition, student teams run a business...