Students from Qatar and Pittsburgh recently competed in CMU-Q’s Internal Case Competition, in which they were challenged to consider the business implications of tougher regulations on shisha (hookah) smoking in Qatar.

The winning team, Beta Consulting, comprised CMU-Q students Tarek Alhariri, Sanjeet Sahni, Shashank Shetty and Munammad Suhaib, who received their awards from Dean Ilker Baybars. Second place went to Team Epsilon, comprising Saad Asim, Medina Ali, Sampriti Jain and Fazail Ahmad from CMU-Q and Annie Huang from the Pittsburgh campus.

Milton Cofield, executive director of the B.S. in Business Administration at the Tepper School of Business, joined Qatar campus faculty and alumni as judges. Patrick McGinnis, director of the Qatar campus Business Administration program, organized the two-day competition.