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2015Press Kit
Media Contact:
Leticia Gonzalez-Reyes Email: press@hultprize.org Tel: +1 609 772 6604 Twitter: @hultprize
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Founded in 2009 by Hult International Business School graduate
Ahmad Ashkar, the Hult Prize is the world’s largest student competi-
tion and crowdsourcing platform for social good. In October 2012, the
Hult Prize was named one of the top five ideas changing the world by
President Bill Clinton and TIME Magazine.
Each year the Hult Prize, in partnership with President Bill Clinton, the
Clinton Global Initiative, and Hult International Business School,
challenges millennials around the world to develop innovative social
enterprises that aim to tackle grave social issues faced by billions of
people. Winners receive USD1 million in seed capital, as well as
mentorship and advice from the international business community to
launch their new company.
Regional rounds of competition are held each spring in Boston, San
Francisco, London, Dubai, and Shanghai, as well as virtually in an
Online Challenge. The final round and awards ceremony are held at
the Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting each fall in New York. All
of the finalists are invited to the summer Hult Prize Accelerator
Program and given a one-year membership into the CGI.
The Hult Prize is made possible through the support of the Hult family
and its benefactor, Swedish entrepreneur Mr. Bertil Hult, founder of
the world’s largest education company, EF Education First.
About the Hult Prize
Hult Prize by the Numbers
The Hult Prize is a start-up accelerator for budding young social entrepreneurs emerging from universities around the world.
10,000,000 1,500
2,400,000 1,500
22,000 600
Slum Dwellers Targeted 2015 Hult Prize stretch target for individuals impacted by winning idea.
Entrepreneurs Participated in the regional finals in 2015.
Million Man-Hours Time spent on the 2015 challenge. Found by multiplying the total number of applications by the average hours spent per team per challenge via poll of past participants.
Social Business Ideas Generated Sum of all regional finalists teams through 2015 competition.
Annual Applications The number doubled from 2014 to 2015 in large part because of the rapid growth of the Hult Prize@ program - a university franchise platform which allows colleges to run localized editions of the Hult Prize.
Schools Represented In total since the inaugural year (2009).
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The 2015 Hult Prize “President’s Challenge”
is Early Childhood Development and
Education in the Urban Slum. This topic
was selected by President Bill Clinton at
the 2014 Clinton Global Initiative Annual
Meeting in New York. The challenge asks
teams to build sustainable and scalable
social enterprises to address the tragic lack
of early childhood education in poor urban
communities around the world.
• In 2013, 1.2 billion people in the developing world lived on
less than US$2 a day. Low-income urban children experience
more disadvantages compared to children from higher
income-level families.
• Children from low-income backgrounds in urban areas are usually
less healthy and their language skills are less developed, which
means they are generally less prepared to enter a school education
program socially, emotionally, or physically.
• Greater access to education could help eliminate poverty, driving
wealth creation and improving people’s lives. According to studies
by UNESCO, if all children in low-income countries left school with
basic reading skills, 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty,
reducing global poverty by 12%.
• Countries need educated people to succeed, and children with
adequate education are more likely to be successful. Nevertheless,
many poor children don’t have access to schools or drop out to
contribute to the family income, continuing a cycle of poverty.
• According to UNESCO, an extra year of schooling during
childhood increases individual earnings over a lifetime by 10%.
• It is estimated that each additional year of schooling for children
increases a nation’s average annual gross domestic product
(GDP) growth by 0.37%.
• Studies have shown that every dollar invested in early childhood
education results in a return of investment of $7-$13.8.
The 2015 Hult Prize Challenge: Early Childhood Development and Education
How can we provide quality education to ten million children under six years old in urban slums by 2020?
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These include Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Shanghai
and online. Global finalists have competed against and beat out
more than 22,000 participating students from over 150 countries,
representing more than 350 colleges and universities from around
the world.
Their social businesses are innovative, disruptive, and catalytic and
have been selected by a group of world-renowned jury members that
include top executives from the private, public, and social sectors.
They represent both their peers as well as their higher-education
institutions as the best of the best.
2015 Hult Prize regional winning teams:
• ESADE Business School (Boston Regional Final)
• University of Tampa (San Francisco Regional Final)
• Oxford University (London Regional Final)
• University of Toronto (Dubai Regional Final)
• Jiao Tong University Shanghai Advanced Institute
of Finance (Shanghai Regional Final)
• National Chengchi University (Online Regional Final)
2015 Regional Winners
Each of the teams participating in the Hult Prize Finals represents the very best from one of six regional competitions around the world and 22,000 applicants.
BOSTONSAN FRANCISCO
LONDON SHANGHAI
DUBAI
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San Francisco Tembo University of Tampa Tembo provides an education–based loyalty program to mobile phone networks.
Boston Educuento ESADE Educuento is empowering parents in urban slums, through the media they enjoy, to build brighter futures for their children.
Start-up Concept:
Caregivers who use our curriculum and mobile phone partner are
awarded free minutes and texts. Adapting and digitizing the Clinton
Global Initiative – endorsed education model of HIPPY international,
we train local community health workers to Home Visitors and
empower them to become micro-entrepreneurs. These home visitors
market our text message-based curriculum and mobile phone partner
to caregivers. The curriculum is an evidenced --based program where
home visitors teach caregivers our curriculum. Empowered, the
caregivers then teach to their children.
Home visitors deliver 30 weeks of high quality school readiness
curriculum activities directly to caregivers who then work 15 minutes
a day with their children. Home visitors share the language, culture,
and life experiences of the families they serve. Working for Tembo is
the first professional-level job for many women employed as home
visitors, highlighting the strong workforce development element of
the model. Tembo maximizes human potential through education.
Start-up Concept:
Millions of children start school and life with the deck stacked against
them simply because they didn’t hear as many words as the other
kids while they were growing up. The Word Gap has huge – and
usually permanent – negative consequences for the children who
suffer from it. Educuento aims to bridge the word gap through an
interactive media solution that delivers the tools and resources
parents need to be their children’s best educators. The major
elements are a community-sourced interactive radio show, daily
parenting advice through SMS, and a savings account incentive
system. All components have been proven effective independently,
and we believe the combination provides a comprehensive solution
to create catalytic change for children in urban slums across the
world.
We are Educuento and we are helping parents to close the word gap.
All components have independently been proved to be successful,
and we believe in the viability of combining them to help more than 10
million children develop in their early years.
2015 Regional Winners
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Dubai Attollo University of Toronto Talking Stickers mobilizes millions of parents to close children’s Word Gap.
London Libromat Oxford University Libromat Hubs are community centres where caregivers share books with their children while their laundry is done.
Start-up Concept:
Underprivileged children are exposed to 30 million fewer words than
privileged children by age 3. This is known as the Word Gap, which
limits children’s preparedness for primary school. Our innovation,
Talking Stickers, mobilizes millions of parents to close this Word
Gap. Talking Stickers come with a QR code that links it to our Attollo
Reader to capture the power of a parent or caregiver’s voice.
Talking Stickers can be customized to talk, sing, and read in any
language to children without the need for internet or distracting
screens. Since stickers can be placed on anything, Talking Stickers
transform common household items into educational toys. Age
appropriate content will be developed through our partnerships with
ECE experts and trained facilitators across the world. The trained
facilitators monitor progress with parents and children, and foster
parent peer support groups in the communities. Talking Stickers are a
sustainable and scalable solution that brings words to life for children
all over the world.
Start-up Concept:
Each hub is an aspirational, affordable, and accessible place where
caregivers learn to share books with their children. Our unique
educational program is based on research completed by our partners
in an informal settlement in South Africa just a few months ago. This
research showed that Libromat’s dialogic book-sharing program
improves long-term development for children, even when caregivers
are illiterate.
Laundry is a tedious, time-intensive chore for parents, and for many
low-income families, laundry services are inaccessible. Libromats
free up time for parents to share books effectively with their young
children in a welcoming environment run by specially trained
educators.
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2015 Regional Winners
Online IMPCT National Chengchi University A full-stack solution to the problem of accessible and affordable early childhood education in urban slums.
Shanghai TeleStory Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance Regular digitally recorded lessons delivered to mobile phones.
Start-up Concept:
IMPCT builds ECE businesses that are community operated, but
globally owned. How? With our revolutionary IMPCT purpose-driven
microequity platform. This platform enables anybody, anywhere,
to make direct impact investments in the sustainable education
businesses of talented local edupreneurs.
IMPCT turns that capital into quality ECE schools with our unique
context-appropriate building, curriculum, and training solutions. Our
investors are powerful new stakeholders in urban slum education.
Together we create a purely positive investment cycle with our radical
profit-sharing model.
Start-up Concept:
TeleStory proposes to connect something all Indians have, a mobile
phone, with the new technology of cloud telephony to deliver regular
digitally recorded lessons, entirely through their dumb phones.
To reach our customers, we will partner with businesses already
operating in slums, such as mobile phone charging stations. These
stations will act as storage and distribution centers for physical books
and story cards. Based on the child’s age, appropriate materials are
distributed to the customer.
Then, every night, a 10 minute automated phone call is made from the
cloud to the parent. The parent answers and enters in the lesson id
number found on the book and the corresponding prerecorded digital
lesson, stored on the cloud, begins to play. Our goal is to develop our
students’ language and reading skills, helping level the playing field
against their wealthier peers and to ultimately change their future.
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Manish Ranjan
CEO and Founder, NanoHealth
Manish is the CEO and co-founder of NanoHealth, a social enterprise striving to change the
face of urban healthcare by solving the rising burden of chronic diseases in urban slums.
NanoHealth was founded while Manish was studying for his MBA at the Indian School
of Business, where he received the Torchbearer award for outstanding leadership. An
engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, Manish worked as a
consultant helping large multinationals boost their business processes efficiency. He now
applies his extensive experience to improve healthcare processes for addressing critical
health challenges.
Manish believes in the power of enterprises to have sustainable impact. He is actively engaged
to develop the social-enterprise ecosystem and is a regular event speaker.
About NanoHealth
NanoHealth is a social enterprise specializing
in chronic disease management in urban
slums. NanoHealth creates a network of
community health workers called “Saathis”
and equips them with a low-cost point of
care device called the ‘Doc-in-a-Bag™’. With
the help of the right care model and scalable
technology, NanoHealth promises a winning
model for the fight against chronic disease
and aims to prevent a million premature
deaths every year. . NanoHealth is currently
scaling its services in south India.
Profile of 2014 Hult Prize Winner
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Mohammed Ashour
CEO and Founder, Aspire Food Group
Mohammed is the CEO and co-founder of one of the fastest growing companies on the
planet and winner of the 2013 Hult Prize, Aspire Food Group. A commercial manufacturer of
alternative protein sources such as insects, Aspire has re-imagined the livestock industry and
as a result has created an innovative sector, which they are currently leading: Micro-Livestock.
Local and international manufacturing facilities weaved into a micro-works business model has
led to the rapid scale of an organization the United Nations calls “a company whose time has
a come” for their disruptive approach to global food insecurity. Mohammed is a globe trotter,
currently looking after manufacturing, production and distribution facilities in Ghana, Mexico
and Texas.
An accomplished academic and practioner, Mr. Ashour is a Resident Doctor of Medicine and
holds a Master of Surgery degree (MD, CM) from the Faculty of Medicine, and a MBA from the
Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. Mohammed also completed a Master
Degree in neuroscience (M.Sc.) at McGill University and a Bachelor of Life Sciences (B.Sc.) at
the University of Toronto.
About Aspire Food Group
Aspire Foods is the world’s largest producer
of insects and insect by-products exclusively
for human consumption. Their mission is to
eliminate food insecurity through the mega-
farming of alternative protein.
Profile of 2013 Hult Prize Winner
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Akanksha aspires to empower the underserved and help build a better India as a social
entrepreneur and Ashoka Fellow. She is fortunate to have been a peace negotiator, a
sustainable energy consultant, a professional athlete, and non-profit leader at different periods
of her life. These adventures have taken her across the world from the boardrooms of
blue-chip firms to the field, living and working in Palestine and rural India, and taught her six
languages along the way. Akanksha’s journey reflects her passion for being at the intersection
of business and social change.
Akanksha won the Hult Prize 2011, and was honoured by President Bill Clinton and the Clinton
Global Initiative, for m.Paani, her innovative model for scaling access to basic services in under-
served communities globally. Most recently, Akanksha was named one of India’s top 10 social
entrepreneurs and an Echoing Green 2013 semi-finalist. Her company, m.Paani, is one India’s
hottest social enterprises and offers the largest loyalty program in India focused on the poor.
Akanksha holds a BA in Politics from Princeton University and a MBA from the University of
Cambridge.
About m.Paani
m.Paani designs and implements mobile-
based loyalty programs that empower
underserved communities by connecting
their spend to life-changing development
rewards.
Profile of 2011 Hult Prize Winner
Akanksha Hazari CEO and Founder, m.Paani
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Philip Hult Co-CEO, EF Education First
Dr. Stephen Hodges President, Hult International Business School
Ahmad Ashkar CEO & Founder, Hult Prize Foundation
Philip Hult is the co-CEO of EF Education
First, a privately-held international education
company founded by his father, Bertil Hult.
Philip also serves as a member on the board
of Hult International Business School, an
independent organization affiliated with EF
Education First.
Along with his brother Alex Hult, Philip
oversees the strategy and operations of EF
Education First’s 15 business units, which
specialize in language training, educational
travel, academic degrees, and cultural
exchange. Philip graduated magna cum
laude from Brown University in 1993 with
a degree in International Relations and
Comparative Literature. Upon graduation,
Philip joined EF, where he has focused
primarily on emerging markets and digital
learning.
He helped launch English First, EF’s chain
of local English schools, which currently
has over 200 schools in China, Indonesia,
and Russia alone. Philip also co-founded
EF Englishtown, the world’s largest online
English school.
The Hult family donates USD1 million each
year to fund the Hult Prize.
Dr. Stephen Hodges joined Hult International
Business School as Chairman of the Board
in 2006 and was elected President that
same year. A businessman for most of his
life, Stephen is a strong advocate of practical
education.
Stephen started his career with McKinsey
& Company in London, where he was an
associate principal. Since then, he has run
several large businesses and worked around
the world in places such as Hong Kong,
India, Singapore, Taiwan, Spain, Germany,
Sweden, and the United States, as well as his
home country, the United Kingdom. Stephen
holds a Ph.D from Manchester University and
an MA from Cambridge University.
He completed two years of post-doctorate
research in electronic engineering with
AT&T Laboratories in Cambridge and is
the co-author of several patents in data
communication.
Ahmad Ashkar is the visionary CEO of the
Hult Prize Foundation. Ahmad continues
to lead the organization he founded in
2009, named by President Bill Clinton and
TIME Magazine as one of the top five ideas
changing the world.
Ahmad also serves as an adviser to both
private and government sector entities
across the Middle East and Latin America,
where he serves as an adviser on youth
unemployment, economic empowerment,
entrepreneurship, innovation, crowdscience
and social entrepreneurship.
Ahmad has been profiled as a social
innovator by Harvard Business Review
and is distinguished as one of the top
40 CEOs under 40 in the Middle East by
Arabian Business where he appeared on
the cover of the May 2015 issue. He serves
as a coach and speaker on social impact,
entrepreneurship, innovation and the start-
up ecosystem at forums around the wolrd
including the Clinton Global Initiative and
World Economic Forum. He has appeared
on Al-Jazeera, Bloomberg, CCTV, CNN,
CNBC, FOX, MBC and has been profiled
by leading publications in more than 40
countries including the US, Brazil, Mexico,
UAE, Palestine and across Europe. Gulf News
called Ahmad “one of the leaders of the
arab youth” in a recent front page feature.
Most recently, the Boston Globe recognized
Ahmad and the Hult Prize as a top “Game-
Changer”.
Hult Prize Foundation Board
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2015 Hult Prize Final Judges
Muhammad Yunus 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner
Julia Gillard Former Prime MinisterAustralia
Fadi Ghandour Founder & Vice Chairman, Aramex
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad
Yunus is the father of microcredit and social
business, and the founder of Grameen
Bank and more than 50 other companies
in Bangladesh. Fortune Magazine named
Professor Yunus as “one of 12 greatest
entrepreneurs of our time” in March 2012
for his constant innovation and enterprise.
Yunus has received several other national
and international honors. He received the
United States Presidential Medal of Freedom
in 2009 and the Congressional Gold Medal
in 2010. In 2008, he was rated #2 in Foreign
Policy magazine’s list of the ‘Top 100 Global
Thinkers’.
Julia Gillard is the Board Chair of the Global
Partnership for Education. She comes to
the Global Partnership after a distinguished
career of public service in Australia. She
served as Prime Minister of Australia
between 2010 and 2013 and successfully
managed Australia’s economy during the
global economic crisis. Education is Ms.
Gillard’s passion. She reformed Australia’s
education at every level, from early childhood
to higher education, with a special focus on
disadvantaged children. She delivered new
standards to improve the quality of childcare
and access to early childhood education for
every Australian child.
Fadi Ghandour is the founder and vice
chairman of Aramex, one of the leading
global logistics and transportation companies.
He is the executive chairman of Wamda
Capital, a venture capital fund focusing on
technology investments in the Arab World.
Ghandour is also the managing partner of
MENA Venture Investments, a seed capital
investment company investing in early-stage
tech companies. He is a member of the
board of Abraaj Capital, a member of the
board of trustees at the American University
of Beirut, and chairman of the advisory
council of the Center for Entrepreneurial
Development (CED) at the Institute of
Business Administration Karachi (IBA).
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Hult Prize Global Finals and Awards Dinner at the Clinton Global Initiative Saturday, September 26th, 2015 7:00 p.m.
Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting Sheraton Towers 811 7th Avenue New York, NY
Keynote Speaker: President Bill Clinton 42nd President of the United States Founding Chairman, Clinton Foundation
Executive Jury and Finals Panel: Muhammad Yunus
Julia Gillard
Fadi Ghandour
2015 Hult Prize Key Dates
Hult Prize Meet the Six Showcase at the Clinton Global Initiative Saturday, September 26th, 2015 5:30 p.m.
The Hult Prize Finals welcomes six regional winning social enterprises from around the world who will each pitch for the 2015 Hult Prize and US$1 million in seed capital
Hult Prize Interviews at the Clinton Global Initiative Sunday, September 27th, 2015 10:00 a.m.
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Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), an initiative of
the Clinton Foundation, convenes global leaders to create and implement innovative solutions
to the world’s most pressing challenges. CGI Annual Meetings have brought together more
than 150 heads of state, 20 Nobel Prize laureates, hundreds of leading CEOs, heads of
foundations and NGOs, major philanthropists, and members of the media. To date CGI
members have made more than 2,300 commitments, which have improved the lives of over
400 million people in more than 180 countries. When fully funded and implemented, these
commitments will be valued at more than $73.1 billion.
The CGI Annual Meeting is held each September in New York City. CGI also convenes CGI
America, a meeting devoted to economic recovery and job creation in the United States, and
CGI University (CGI U), which hosts an annual meeting for undergraduate and graduate
students who are developing commitments in their communities and around the world.
2010 Hult Prize makes a commitment to action at the Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting and President Bill Clinton delivers keynote at Hult Prize Finals in New York.
2011 The Clinton Global Initiative and the Hult Prize Foundation create a partnership to scale CGI commitments to action. Following President Bill Clinton’s Speech at the Hult Prize Finals, he invites the Hult Prize and its community to be integrated into the Clinton Global Initiative.
2012 The Hult Prize is listed in a front-page TIME Magazine article on the “Top Five Ideas Changing the World.” President Bill Clinton highlights the multi-national approach of the Hult Prize at the 2012 Finals as the model of the future.
2013 The Hult Prize Final open the 2013 CGI annual meeting. Nearly 1,000 people attend the awards dinner as President Bill Clinton recognizes “the company of the future” - Aspire Food Group and their insect producing start-up as a viable solution to the food security crisis.
2014 President Bill Clinton selects global healthcare as the Hult Prize Challenge and asks students from around the world to develop sustainable enterprises which aim to solve non-communicable disease.
Clinton Global Initiative
A key partner of the Hult Prize, the mission of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) is to turn ideas into action.
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1964 Arthur D. Little Inc., the world’s oldest
management consulting firm, establishes the
Management Education Institute, developing an
innovative, accelerated one-year Master degree
program to train business leaders.
1976 The business school is officially accredited
by the New England Association of Schools and
Colleges (NEASC), the regional accrediting body for
all academic institutions in the northeastern U.S.
1998 Forbes identifies the school’s Action Learning
curriculum as “highly distinctive,” ranking it in the top
five MBA programs in the U.S.
2002 The Economist ranks the school as the third-
best business school in Massachusetts, after Harvard
Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT).
2003 The school is renamed Hult International
Business School, honoring benefactor Bertil Hult’s
personal vision and commitment to educating global
business leaders.
2005 Hult’s one-year MBA program earns the
accreditation of the Association of MBAs (AMBA),
making Hult the first business school in the U.S.
to be recognized by this prestigious international
accrediting body.
2008 Hult welcomes its first class of students to the
MBA program in Dubai. Hult is the first U.S. academic
institution to be licensed in the U.A.E.
2009 The Financial Times adds Hult International
Business School to its prestigious Top 100 Global
MBA rankings. Hult’s London campus welcomes
undergraduates and graduate students. Hult
launches a one-year Master degree in International
Business.
2010 Hult is ranked #1 in International Experience
by the Financial Times. Hult adds a one-year Master
in International Marketing degree. The school
opens its second U.S. campus in downtown San
Francisco. The first Hult Global Case Challenge is
launched in partnership with One Laptop per Child
to crowdsource student ideas and revolutionize the
business of giving.
2011 Hult launches a Master of Social
Entrepreneurship degree and a Master of Finance
degree. The school is ranked #3 in International
Business by the Financial Times. Hult’s campus in
China opens in the heart of Shanghai. Former U.S.
President Bill Clinton presents a USD1 million prize to
Water.org at the Hult Global Case Challenge Final.
2012 Hult becomes the world’s largest ranked
graduate business school. The Hult Global Case
Challenge is renamed the Hult Prize.
2013 The Hult Prize Final is held at the Clinton
GIobal Initiative’s Annual Meeting in New
York, after finalists are trained through the Hult
Prize Accelerator Program. Hult Labs releases
groundbreaking research on the future of the MBA.
2014 Hult opens its first U.S. undergraduate campus
in San Francisco. The school unveils its game-
changing MBA curriculum designed with input from
business leaders.
Hult International Business School Inc. is an independent, not-for-profit institution affiliated with the EF Education First Group.
Hult International Business School
Hult International Business School is the sponsor of the Hult Prize and the world’s most international business school with campuses in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, and Shanghai.
It is named after one of Europe’s leading entrepreneurs Bertil Hult,
who founded EF Education First, the largest private education
company in the world. Hult International Business School is ranked
#57 in the world by the Financial Times (2013). Hult also ranks in the
Financial Times Top 10 for International Business, International
Experience, and International Mobility. It is ranked #1 in Percentage
Salary Increase and #31 in the world by The Economist (2012). Today,
Hult has over 2,000 students from over 135 different countries
enrolled across its campuses. Hult is at the forefront of social
entrepreneurship among the world’s leading business schools. The
Hult Prize showcases the school’s commitment to social good and
emphasizes how our world’s most pressing social challenges can be
confronted by deploying innovative business solutions. Unlike other
business case competitions that are geared towards solving typical
business issues, the Hult Prize engages students to use their business
skills and acumen to take on some of our world’s most pressing social
problems, such as clean water access, education inequity and poverty.
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EF Education First
EF Education First is an international education company focusing on language, academics, and cultural experience. EF and the Hult family proudly support the Hult Prize with critical resources.
EF Education First was founded in Sweden in 1965 by a young entrepreneur named Bertil
Hult. The concept was straightforward: take local high school students to England to learn
English. It was a simple business idea—on-site language and cultural studies—but one with
an enormous future.
Nearly 50 years later, EF Education First is the world leader in international education with a
range of educational programs, including language schools, educational travel, cultural
exchanges, and academic degrees. EF operates 500 schools and offices in more than 52
countries and has a network of more than 37,000 teachers and staff.
EF’s mission is more relevant than ever. Today’s world is increasingly complex and
interdependent. Cross-cultural communication and understanding are vital for long-term
success. EF’s programs enable everyone to make the world their classroom.
Our Programs
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