On Wednesday, the students from the Acton MBA were named by The Princeton Review as The Most Competitive MBA’s in America for the seventh straight year, and the Acton School of Business also won the Best Administered title.

On Thursday, as part of investigating the power of diagnostic frameworks, the Acton MBA’s squared off against the Acton Academy Launchpadders in an eighty minute, Harvard Business School style Socratic discussion.

For several days, Launchpadders dug deeply into the story of David Martin, a young business school graduate who in 1996 longed to open an internet cafe in Jamaica.   Preparation included using the Acton MBA’s Ultimate FIT Framework; Understanding Customers Framework and tools such as Unit Economics and spreadsheets.

Who won?   Use the this link and the password DWBH18 (just think: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”) and you can judge for yourself. (The discussion starts about five minutes into the video.)

In the end, the judges were unanimous: Launchpadders triumphed for the second victory in a row.

Perhaps someone should notify The Princeton Review.