Research Challenge Current & Past Winners

Current & Past Winners

2024 University of Waterloo, School of Accounting and Finance

2023 University of Waterloo, School of Accounting and Finance

2022 University of Waterloo, School of Accounting and Finance

Subject Company: Cargojet Inc.

Arnav Sheth
Ronis Goel
Ryan Trainor
Coco Dai
Aryaman Dhillon
Steve Balaban, CFA, Faculty Advisor
Jeannine LiChong, CFA, Industry Mentor

Subject Company: Payfare Inc.

Philbert Chan
Joyce Ren
Jennie Lin
Sonia Balani
Rocky Luo
Steve Balaban, CFA, Faculty Advisor
Jeannine LiChong, CFA, Industry Mentor

Subject Company: TC Transcontinental

Alice Qin
Muhammad Sadiq
Ziming Gao
Murtaza Zaidi
Steve Balaban, CFA, Faculty Advisor
Jeannine LiChong, CFA, Industry Mentor

2021 University of Waterloo, School of Accounting and Finance

Subject Company: Empire Company Limited

Brendan Mick
Anna Shen
Noah Yabrov
Steve Balaban, CFA, Faculty Advisor
Jeannine LiChong, CFA, Industry Mentor

2021 Americas Regional Final Champions

2020 University of Waterloo, School of Accounting and Finance

2020 - Research Challenge Winners - University of Waterloo

Subject Company: Descartes Systems Group Inc.

Steve Balaban, CFA, Faculty Advisor
Logan Fraser
Pamela Zeng
Mitchell Ho
Isaac Wong
Jeannine LiChong, CFA, Industry Mentor

2019 Queen's University, Smith School of Business

2019 - Research Challenge Winners - Queen's University

Subject Company: BCE Bell Canada

Yacine Drissi Qeytoni
Sruthi Nair
Sharad Gopal
Shahzad Aziz Hussain
Romel Sabat

2018 University of Waterloo, School of Accounting and Finance

2018 - Research Challenge Winners - University of Waterloo

Subject Company: SNC-Lavalin

Steve Balaban, CFA, Faculty Advisor
Hammad Shams
Katherine Chan
Uday Sandhu
Justin Lee
Kevin Li

2017 University of Waterloo, School of Accounting and Finance

2017 - Research Challenge Winners - University of Waterloo

Subject Company: Shopify Inc.

Sophia Chen
Talha Siddiqui
Raj Patel
Qi (Judy) Dong
Thinisha Gunasekera
Jeannine LiChong, Industry Mentor
Steve Balaban, Faculty Advisor

2016 University of Waterloo, School of Accounting and Finance

2016 - Research Challenge Winners - University of Waterloo

Subject Company: Canadian Tire

Kam Dhaliwal
Adnan Khan
Brent Small
Daniel Zhang
Rudder Zhang

2016 Global Champions

2015 University of Waterloo, School of Accounting and Finance

2015 - Research Challenge Winners - University of Waterloo

Subject Company: Thomson Reuters

David Chan
Oliver Chan
Jun Wang
Jeffrey Wong

2014 Queen's University, Smith School of Business

2014 - Research Challenge Winners - Queen's University

Subject Company: Loblaw Companies Ltd.

Yiliu (Joyce) Kang
Robert Kaptyn
Raghav Khanna
Aria Samarzedeh
Jakub Sulimierski

2013 University of Waterloo, School of Accounting and Finance

2013 - Research Challenge Winners - University of Waterloo

Subject Company: Dollarama

Arsalan Hashmani
Donna Heng
Prasanth Pahirathan
Anqi Wang
Ian Weng

2012 University of Waterloo, School of Accounting and Finance

2012 - Research Challenge Winners - University of Waterloo

Subject Company: Onex Corporation

Michael Liu
Michael C. Liu
Meng Wang
Daniel Pacione
Ian Gutwinski

2011 University of Western Ontario, Ivey Business School

2011 - Research Challenge Winners - University of Western

Subject Company: Glacier Media Inc.

Arsalan Hashmani
Donna Heng
Prasanth Pahirathan
Anqi Wang
Ian Weng

2010 Laurier University, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics

2010 - Research Challenge Winners - Laurier University

Subject Company: Brookfield Renewable Power Fund

Cui Can
Arnold Ha
Jon Jhun
Melody Tao

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