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Hult Prize 2017 winning team Roshni Rides poses with
former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Their winning idea aims
to improve the lives of refugees in Pakistan.
Who competes?
• Students from any university in the world on
any program can compete in teams of three
to four. • Regionals are held in 15 cities around the world,
hosted by leading universities, including Hult
International Business School.
• 100,000 student entrepreneurs from over
1,300 universities applied to take part in the
2018 Hult Prize. • Students of Hult International Business School
are highly encouraged to take part in the Hult
Prize. We run workshops to help students form
teams and develop their ideas, hold internal
competitions, and host five of the regionals on
our campuses. The Hult Prize is a hallmark of the
Hult experience.
• The competition is recognized as the gold
standard for student social entrepreneurs, with
teams from the world’s best-known universities
taking part including Harvard, Yale, Oxford,
Cambridge, National University of Singapore,
and hundreds more.
“The Hult Prize, in so many ways,
represents the way the world has
to function in the 21st Century.”
Bill Clinton
Former U.S. President
2014
Non-communicable
diseases in urban
slums
A team from the
Indian School of
Business won with
a “Doc-in-a-Bag”
solution, which lets
medical workers
diagnose and monitor
NCDs remotely.
2015
Early childhood
education 2016
Crowded urban
spaces
A team from Taiwan’s
National Chengchi
University won with
a business that builds
children’s education
franchises, run by
local women, to reach
10 million children
by 2020. The challenge—to
double the income
of 10 million people
living in urban slums
by 2022—was won
by the Earlham
College team whose
bus system featured
mobile payments
and tracking.
2017
The refugee crisis
A team from Rutgers
University won the
challenge to restore
the dignity of
10 million refugees
with their solar-
powered rickshaw-
sharing service.
2018
Harnessing
sustainable energy
This year’s challenge
asks: Can you build
scalable, sustainable
social enterprises that
harness the power of
energy to transform
the lives of 10 million
people by 2025?
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