Six Student Teams to Compete for $1 Million Hult Prize

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LONDON, Mar. 14, 2014 /PRN=KYODO JBN / --

    The Hult Prize today announced the six finalists for its annual start-up

challenge. Thousands of PhD, MD, MBA, Master's, and undergraduate students

pitched startup enterprises aimed at tackling non-communicable-diseases (NCD)

in urban slums.

    This year's Hult Prize challenge topic, selected by President Clinton,

asked participants to build sustainable and scalable social enterprises to

address NCDs in slums, where nearly a billion people live today. Teams from

University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, HEC Paris,

ESADE Business School, Indian School of Business, and York University will now

advance to a two-month accelerator boot camp in Boston where they will be

mentored by world leaders as they look to refine and scale their startups and

prep for their final pitch, hosted at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual

Meeting this September in New York. The winning team will receive $1 million in

startup seed funding.

    With nearly 11,000 annual participants, the Prize is the world's largest

millennial movement for social good. President Clinton, who wrote in TIME that

the Prize is one of the top five ideas changing the world, has supported the

competition since 2011.

    "The Hult Prize is a wonderful example of the creative cooperation needed

to build a world with shared opportunity, shared responsibility, and shared

prosperity, and each year I look forward to seeing the many outstanding ideas

the competition produces," said President Clinton.

    Hult International Business School [http://www.hult.edu ], the Prize's lead

sponsor, hosted regional final competitions at its campuses in Boston, San

Francisco, London, Dubai and Shanghai (with Sao Paulo hosted by Rio Branco

University in Brazil). Students from more than 150 countries representing more

than 300 higher education institutions presented their ideas for this year's

challenge, which was judged by leading executives from businesses like

Unilever, Coke, and McKinsey. His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al

Nahyan, ruling member of the UAE Royal Family, also judged the Dubai

competition.

    "The Hult Prize continues to deliver multiple disruptive ideas each year

around a challenge topic critical to millions of underserved people around the

world," said Dr. Stephen Hodges, President of Hult International Business

School. "We are honored to host these young social entrepreneurs each year and

support them as their ideas come to life."

    For more information about the Hult Prize visit http://www.hultprize.org.

    For more information about Hult International Business School visit

http://www.hult.edu

    Contact:

    Michael Lu / Michael.lu@hult.edu / +44(0)207-341-8659

    Source: Hult International Business School