A team of Smeal second-year MBA students emerged from a field of more than 30 teams from throughout the country to win the Fifth Annual Smeal MBA Sustainability Case Competition. The winning team produced the best plan for the case that focused on CNote, a company that has been built on impact investing and social finance while it supports underserved communities across America. The Smeal team prevailed over finalists from Cornell University, the University of Minnesota, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Arizona.