About the Hult Prize@
The Hult Prize@ Program is the quarterfinal round of the annual USD1M Hult Prize
Challenge, bringing the competition directly to college campuses around the world. The local competition gives the university’s winning team the chance to bypass the general
application round and fast-track into one of the five regional finals: Boston, San Francisco,
London, Shanghai, or Dubai.
Hult Prize@ events allow more students to compete around the world, leading to more
ideas and ultimately more social businesses poised to tackle some of the world’s toughest
challenges. In 2013, a Hult Prize@ winner went on to become the 2014 Hult Prize recipient,
and in 2015, five out of the six regional finalist teams were from Hult Prize@ campuses. The events organized on campus provide teams with unparalleled opportunities and
resources, as well as spread awareness on campus of a pressing global issue. Hult Prize@
is bringing the world’s toughest challenges to schools around the world, and helping
students solve them. About the Hult Prize
The Hult Prize Foundation is a start-up accelerator for budding young social entrepreneurs emerging from the world’s top universities. Named as “one of the top five ideas changing the world” by President Bill Clinton and TIME Magazine, the annual competition for the Hult Prize aims to identify and launch the most compelling social business ideas: start-up
enterprises that tackle grave issues faced by billions of people. Winners receive USD1
million in seed capital, as well as mentorship and advice from the international business
community. Each of the finalists receives pilot funding along with membership to the
Clinton Global Initiative. Called the "Nobel Prize for students" by media outlets world-wide, the Hult Prize is offered
in partnership with former US President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative. It is
hosted and supported by Hult International Business School, and generously funded by
Swedish entrepreneur Bertil Hult and his family. The aim of the Hult Prize is to breed the next generation of social entrepreneurs, and launch start-up social enterprises that can radically change the world. Open to university and college students on every continent, the Hult Prize has grown to
become the world’s largest student movement for social good and the planet’s largest
student-centered event. It is also the biggest student competition and crowd-sourcing
platform. Each year thousands of college and university students from 140+ countries
participate, and since its inception, participants have represented nearly 1,000 institutions
of higher education. Competing schools included Stanford, Harvard, INSEAD, Hult
International Business School, NYU, Columbia, American University Beirut, LBS,
Hitotsubashi, St. Petersburg, and Tel-Aviv University. Each year, President Bill Clinton selects a critical social problem impacting billions of the
world’s most vulnerable people, and a challenge is issued. Teams of 3-4 students are
challenged to develop an innovative start-up enterprise to eradicate the problem. Access to
Education. Clean water. Affordable housing. Clean energy. Solar Power. Food insecurity. Healthcare. These are a few of the issues competitors have tackled since the competition’s
inception in 2009. It’s a win-win for the world.
