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2015Press Kit

Media Contact:

Leticia Gonzalez-Reyes Email: [email protected] 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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2015 Regional Winners

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

Educational Travel We offer international tours that provide culturally rich experiences and hands-on learning for middle school students, high school students, college students and adult travelers interested in exploring the world.

Cultural Exchange Live with American families, providing childcare in exchange for housing and educational courses as an exchange student.

Language Training Learn a new language at an EF English Center in China, at an EF International Language Center abroad, or online at englishtown.com. Or, travel abroad and learn in a native country where culture and language come to life.

Academic and Degree Programs From International Baccalaureate diplomas and university preparatory classes to MBA, Master or Bachelor degree programs, our commitment to global education is world-renowned.