The sales competition at Penn State Harrisburg included opportunities for students to test their sales skills as well as network with companies from the region.
The sales competition at Penn State Harrisburg featured a D&H Distributing case competition, a business-to-business case role play that allowed student competitors to practice their sales skills by acting the part of a D&H sales professional, pitching real products and services to fictitious small and medium-sized resellers.
Darrell Bartholomew, associate professor of marketing, developed the competition at Penn State Harrisburg after helping students compete at other schools for years and hearing their desire to have such an event on their own campus.
The Penn State Harrisburg Sales Competition, sponsored by D&H Distributing, offered students a chance to practice their sales skills as well as network with companies and other students.
Students from Penn State Harrisburg and five other colleges put their sales skills to the test on Oct. 13 and 14 at the inaugural sales competition hosted by the School of Business Administration and sponsored by D&H Distributing.
Students from Penn State Harrisburg and five other colleges put their sales skills to the test on Oct. 13 and 14 at the inaugural sales competition hosted by the School of Business Administration. The competition, sponsored by D&H Distributing, featured a case competition, elevator pitch competition, networking opportunities and more.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will host Shira Klein, associate professor of history at Chapman University, at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 25, via webinar. Klein will present a lecture titled “Editing the Holocaust: Distortion of History on Wikipedia.”
