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International Student Teams Propose New Business Ideas With Social Bottom Line in Global Social Venture Competition.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, April, 2005
Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
BERKELEY, Calif., April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nine teams of MBA students planning social enterprises that range from applying nanotechnology to solar power systems in developing countries to training low-income urban youth to conduct market research on their peer groups will compete for recognition and $45,000 in prizes in the final round of the 2005 Global Social Venture Competition at the University of California, Berkeley, April 14-15.
The competition, founded by five UC Berkeley MBA students in 1999, has grown into a global partnership between the campus's Haas School of Business, Columbia Business School in New York, and London Business School. Long-time sponsor The Goldman Sachs Foundation and...
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