YOUR CURRICULUM
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Challenges improve core and leadership skills
The capstone of your MBA will be the Future Challenge . Your cross-cultural team and leadership abilities will be honed by working in diverse teams with people from all over the world and from different professional backgrounds . Beyond the core curriculum , you are encouraged to participate in optional competitive challenges that take place both on- and off-campus across the year . You ’ ll learn to pitch with impact , tell a meaningful story , and develop complex solutions to pressing business questions .
Local Challenge
You will have opportunities to engage in local and regional challenges to begin building your skills and to gain a deeper understanding of your new home city and region . Each campus has its own strategy for giving students exposure to these types of challenges , which may include events held on-campus by staff and clubs as well as local off-campus challenges .
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The Hult Prize
A truly global challenge in its scope and scale , the Hult Prize attracts 100,000 students from 300 academic institutions around the world , with teams competing to use the power of entrepreneurship to solve major global social problems . All Hult students are encouraged to compete in the Hult Prize , with on-campus support and mentoring as teams compete to reach the finals and win the $ 1 million USD prize .
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Future Challenge
Your core challenge in the spring is the capstone to your core courses and demands the utmost creativity . Building upon themes established throughout the program , the Future Challenge calls upon students to harness disruptive technology to create a compelling new business opportunity , either for your own startup or for an existing company .
You ’ ll prepare for the Future Challenge by learning about the disruptive technologies themselves ( e . g . blockchain , gene editing , artificial intelligence ). You and your team are then given three weeks to develop innovative business ideas utilizing a disruptive technology . Winning teams will present their ideas to external judges who include senior executives , entrepreneurs , and venture capitalists .
1 In Boston , General Mills challenged students to develop original strategic responses to boost their market share based on a projection and analysis of current trends .
2 Five organizations with social missions in need of marketing strategies kick off the NGO Hackathon .
3 At the London campus , Team RadixCube celebrate their challenge win for their idea to impact post-crisis areas with a sustainable real estate model .
4 The winning team of the Audi challenge , who developed a go-tomarket strategy to generate revenue and strengthen brand loyalty in Audi ’ s U . S . market .
5 Daimler asks students at the London campus to propose a future transportation business model for Mercedes-Benz .
6 Team Nebula at the Hult Prize regionals in Tunisia , where they pitched their solution to the 2018 challenge on how to harness solar energy to transform the lives of millions .
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