ST. LOUIS and NORTHFIELD, Ill., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Graduates from Webster University's School of Business and Technology, the largest global business school, are engaged in a competition to determine who is the most successful in managing and growing a business. What began as 113 teams from all over the world has been culled to the top six teams competing for a $10,000 prize that has been sponsored by World Wide Technology, Inc. The teams will compete for 4 weeks, with the contest ending April 15, 2005 and the winners announced later that month.

The final six teams are: -- Yasen Li from the Webster - Shanghai, China campus with Renee English as the faculty mentor. -- Hongming Song from the Webster - Shanghai, China campus with Renee English as the faculty mentor. -- David Cooke from the Webster - Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA, campus with Don King as the faculty mentor. -- The two player team of Lilin Hu and Mark Hu, from the Webster - Shanghai, China campus also with Renee English as the faculty mentor. -- Martin Pelz, from the Webster Vienna, Austria campus with Umesh Shah as the faculty mentor. -- The all female team of Kellye Mitchell and Tanya Copeland from the Webster - Jacksonville, Florida, USA, campus with faculty mentor John Jinkner.

The competition has each of six teams competing to see who can develop a make-believe $100 million business into the biggest success. Simulated business activities include Strategy, R&D, Marketing, Production, Human Resources, Finance, and Process Management. Each team has to respond to eight different challenges that test how well they can make real-life business decisions. The Capstone Business Simulation(R) software program that the teams are using is the leading online business management simulation software.

About Webster University and the School of Business and Technology

Webster University, founded in 1915, is a private, multi-campus, international institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts and sciences, communications, fine arts, and education, as well as business and management. In addition to its metropolitan St. Louis campuses, Webster University offers academic programs in 19 states, and in seven foreign countries which total 103 graduate campuses and enrollment in excess of 22,000 students from 100 nationalities.

The School of Business and Technology has an enrollment of 15,000 students, supported by 2,300 faculty worldwide. It awards more masters degrees to minority candidates worldwide than any other university; they award more MBA degrees than any other university; and they provide university education to more U.S. military units than anyone else in the world. The School has more than 30 campuses on military bases in the United States. More information about Webster University is available at http://www.webster.edu/ .

About World Wide Technology, Inc.

Founded in 1990 with headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, World Wide Technology Holding Co., Inc. (WWT Holding), is a leading value added reseller (VAR) in the information technology industry. With over $1.4 billion in sales, WWT Holding, through its industry-specific operating companies, World Wide Technology and Telcobuy.com, specializes in helping customers rapidly build and deploy technology infrastructure on-time and cost-effectively. For more information please visit http://www.wwt.com/ .

About Management Simulations, Inc.

Management Simulations is the leading virtual business simulation program provider worldwide and works with more than 500 universities including Northwestern University and Vanderbilt, as well as countless leading businesses such as Allstate, General Electric, General Motors, TransUnion and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Management Simulations was founded in 1986 and more information about the company is available from Rodger Mitchell at http://www.capsim.com/ or by calling 877-477-8787 in the United States or Canada by calling 1-847-501-2888 from elsewhere. Email: Rodger@capsim.com .

CONTACT: Polly Burtch of Webster University, Office of Public Affairs,
+1-314-968-6954; or Kate Koziol, of K Squared Communications(R) for Management
Simulations, Inc.(R), +1-773-774-7847

Web site: http://www.wwt.com/
http://www.capsim.com/
http://www.webster.edu/