Boston’s future social entrepreneurs competing for $1 million Hult Prize [Boston Metro]

March 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Students from Boston and across the globe will spend the next few months competing for a $1 million grant to get their ideas on how to solve the global food crisis off the ground. The Hult Prize is a start-up accelerator for social entrepreneurship, and with more than 10,000 applications received this year, it is the [...]

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So You Won a Business Case Challenge? Implement It (Huffington Post)

August 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

  By Neil Parmar Sometimes the hardest part of winning a major business case contest happens after the best idea has been selected, a victor announced and the prize money delivered. For Akanksha Hazari, whose team won the Hult Global Case Challenge last year while trying to do its part to solve the world’s clean [...]

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President Bill Clinton Talks Hult Prize At Cannes Lions

July 26, 2012 By

President Bill Clinton mentions Hult Prize (formerly the Hult Global Case Challenge) in his keynote speech at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the world’s biggest celebration of creativity in communications.

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Hult Global Case Challenge 2012

June 25, 2012 By

President Bill Clinton awards a US$1 million cash grant to Carnegie Mellon, Hult International Business School and NYU Abu Dhabi for their ideas to eradicating poverty at the 2012 Hult Global Case Challenge in New York City. The Hult Global Case Challenge (now Hult Prize) summons the world’s brightest minds to tackle the world’s most [...]

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Hult wins Innovation Excellence Award at NACE conference 2012

June 20, 2012 By

Hult brings home the award for Innovation Excellence Award at the NACE conference this year. The National Association of Colleges and Employers Innovation Excellence is one of two leading University Relations organizations in the US. Close to 2,000 attendees were present to watch Hult’s Corporate Relations team accept the award for innovative programming with the [...]

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The Hult Global Case Challenge Wins the Global Initiatives Award at the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) in Las Vegas

June 19, 2012 By

 The Hult Global Case Challenge, the world’s largest crowd-sourcing platform for social change, wins the NACE Innovation Excellence Award  (Boston – June 19, 2012) The Hult Global Case Challenge was recognized as the Global Initiatives – Small College Winner at the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) in Las Vegas last week. Started three years [...]

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Hult Global Challenge Looks To Students To Break Cycle Of Poverty

May 3, 2012 By

Worldwide, 1.6 billion people live in substandard housing and 100 million are homeless. In the United States alone, 95 million people have housing problems. Adequate housing is vitally important to the health of the world’s economies, communities and populations. If we are to succeed in the fight against poverty, we must support the expansion of [...]

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‘No boundaries’ thinking

May 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

We have made friends with thousands of the world’s best upcoming business minds, and they have given us some great ideas for how we can dramatically increase Habitat for Humanity’s impact around the world. Winners in the Hult Global Case Challenge were announced last week in New York, and students from Hult International Business School, [...]

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Hult Global Case Challenge Is Changing The Social Business Paradigm (Forbes)

April 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

On Thursday, three groups of business students were awarded a combined $1 million to implement three social business plans meant to have a significant impact on the world’s poorest people. Attending the third annual Hult Global Case Challenge were President Bill Clinton and Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. The Challenge is hosted by the Hult [...]

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Boston team win 2012 Hult Global Case Challenge

April 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Congratulations to Frans Bona Simanjuntak, Simon Battah, Lesly Gonzalez and Rolando Farrach – this remarkable team were victorious at the 2012 Hult Global Case Challenge (HGCC), winning £333,333 in seed capital and the opportunity to work with Habitat for Humanity International. But having worked hard to win at HGCC it seems their real work is [...]

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