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.
Penn State Harrisburg student Griffen Martello, left, and Dassou Nagassou, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, examine the project that Martello worked on over the summer through the Multi-Campus Research Experience for Undergraduates. Martello sought to improve the design of a plasma chemical gliding-arc reactor, a device that takes carbon dioxide and decomposes it to produce alternative fuels.
Indrit Hoxha, associate professor of economics at Penn State Harrisburg, was awarded a fellowship to work with researchers in Albania to explore the real estate market there and help build higher education research capacity in the country.
