$1 Million to Solve the Global Food Crisis? Yes, Please [Net Impact]

April 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Net Impacters make their mark on the Hult Prize finalist teams Take one of the world’s biggest challenges: the global food crisis. Add a $1 million prize to solve it. Throw in some of the brightest minds of our generation and what do you get? The largest case competition out there: the Hult Prize. With [...]

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Hult students attend CGI U, Meet President Clinton

April 10, 2013 By

In April five Hult students, one from each of our campuses, participated in President Clinton‘s annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting and got to spend nearly 15 minutes in a private meeting with President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton. CGI U brings together students, youth organizations, topic experts, and celebrities to discuss and develop innovative solutions [...]

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Hambre de acabar con el hambre [El Correo]

April 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment

El premio Hult ofrece un millón de dólares a alumnos de escuelas de negocios con ideas para alimentar las barriadas pobres de grandes urbes. LONDRES. «Bromeo con la gente diciéndole que me resbalé, tropecé, caí y cuando me recuperé me dedi- qué a la empresa social. Inicié mi ca- rrera en Wall Street, en la [...]

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10,000 Students Respond to Clinton’s $1m Food Crisis Challenge

February 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment

World’s largest student competition yet New York, February 5, 2013 – The Hult Prize today announced that it has received over 10,000 applicants for its annual social start-up competition, which awards $1m in funding to the winning venture. This year’s challenge; the global food crisis, was personally selected by key partner President Clinton, and has [...]

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Hult Global Case Challenge To Announce Incubator-Based ‘NGO 2.0′ At Clinton Global Initiative Conference (Forbes)

September 26, 2012 By 1 Comment

By Caleb Melby In April, I wrote about the Hult Global Case Challenge, a worldwide social entrepreneurship challenge hosted by the Hult International Business School, an entity owned by Swedish billionaire Bertil Hult (worth $3 billion as of March), the entrepreneur who made his fortune by building language and cultural learning giant EF Education First. [...]

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President Bill Clinton and Hult Prize Look to Millennials to Solve the Global Food Crisis at the Clinton Global Initiative

September 26, 2012 By

President Clinton calls to action the next generation of social entrepreneurs to focus on Global Food Security and announced that the Hult Prize has launched a start-up accelerator for social entrepreneurship to compliment its annual US$ 1 million start-up challenge.    (NEW YORK – September 25, 2012)  The Hult Prize, formerly known as the Hult Global [...]

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The Case For Optimism (TIME Magazine)

September 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By President Bill Clinton My last example of why I’m optimistic concerns one of my favorite partnerships, the Hult International Business School and its annual Hult Global Case Challenge. Each year the school joins with leading NGOs to pose a series of real global social challenges, and teams of four or five university students from [...]

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How Young Treps Can Participate in the Clinton Global Initiative (Young Entrepreneur)

September 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

It’s one thing for political powerhouses like Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to discuss some of the world’s most pressing social challenges alongside leaders of developing countries, major non-profits and big private-sector businesses. But it’s quite another when they’re also discussing you — or more precisely, how societies around the world can encourage [...]

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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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President Bill Clinton Focuses on the Importance of Sustainability at a Conference Co-hosted by Hult in Switzerland

May 20, 2012 By

(LONDON – May 20, 2012) “Embracing Our Common Humanity” – that was the subject of President Bill Clinton’s keynote speech at the Inspire for Excellence (IoE) Forum in Switzerland. President Clinton addressed an audience of budding entrepreneurs, students and business leaders on the importance of sustainability as part of our global future. The Inspire for [...]

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