Saunders Graduate Students Take Part in Supply Chain Case Competition

A team of Saunders graduate students competed in the Texas Christian University Graduate Supply Chain Case Competition, February 19-21, 2026, on the campus of TCU. The team members were Kristen Cassar ’25 (supply chain management) ’26 (MBA), Sarah Fillip ’26 (EMBA), Nick Lucarini ‘26 (MBA), and Ian Anderson ’26 (MS global supply chain management). The faculty advisor is Kevin Sweeney, associate professor in the department of management.

The case was about helping the company operation Smile, a non-profit provider of surgeries to underserved communities, scale their operations to be able to provide more surgeries in remote places in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.