NOIDA: A group of five students have managed to beat world’s most prestigious business schools at an annual event hosted by Harvard Graduate Business Club . Students of Delhi-based Shaheed Sukhdev College bagged the first position in the Global Case Competition among 140 teams that had participated from all over the world.Students of bachelor of business administration (financial investment analysis), Noida-based Raghav Nath, Anand Negi, Kunal Vats, Sparsh Sehgal and Ojas Jhamb had to compete with PhD level scholars from some of the top business schools in the world including London Business School, HEC Paris, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ESSEC business school and Chinese University of Hong Kong.“For the preliminary round all the teams were required to prepare pitch-books covering financial valuation, financial analysis and strategic analysis of a hypothetical merger and acquisition scenario,” said Raghav over the phone who worked on the hypothesis – shall Amazon acquire Netflix.The 126-page pitch-book prepared by the five students was shortlisted among the top-10 entries and the group was invited to present the case study through a video format in the third week of April followed by a question and answer session with judges.Late on April 26, results were declared live on Facebook and the five were adjudged as the winners of the competition. Besides certificate, the group would also get a cash reward of $ 10,000 for coming up with the best case solution.The group of five, however, were a little disappointed since they will not be able to go to the US to collect their prize money and certificate despite winning the competition due to the travel restrictions. “But we would certainly celebrate their victory in a big way once lockdown restrictions are relaxed. For the first time, an Indian institute has bagged the prestigious award,” said Poonam Verma, principal of the college.