First-ever JUMP! event has a successful landing for students and startups
Entrepreneurs, investors, educators, students, and many others came together last weekend to JUMP! in the name of global entrepreneurship, courtesy of Hult San Francisco’s Hult Venture Group. JUMP! is a…
Hult students attend CGI U, Meet President Clinton
In April, five Hult students, one from each of our campuses, participated in President Clinton‘s annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting and got to spend nearly 15 minutes in a…
Marshall Goldsmith to Speak at Hult
LONDON, 5 April, 2013 — Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world’s leading CEO coaches and recently appointed Distinguished Senior Fellow of Hult International Business School (Hult), will be a keynote…
Free-Expanding Markets—a New Way to Look at the Global Markets
Where will we find growth opportunities, the kind that will take businesses and investment portfolios to the next level? The terms we use when looking at current markets and potential…
MOOCs: One Size Does Not Fit All
As massively open online courses (MOOCs) become more and more popular, the din from doubters and naysayers has also grown increasingly loud. There’s no shortage of opinions: “They’ll disrupt education!”…
Hult Venture Group prepares to JUMP! into big ideas
There is certainly no shortage of events centered on entrepreneurship in San Francisco. But after attending several, Hult MBA candidate Mohamed Temraz feels like something is “missing” from many of…
Five Student Teams to Compete for $1 million Hult Prize
LONDON, March 6, 2013 – After evaluating over 250 social start-up pitches from more than 1,000 students, the Hult Prize today announced the regional winners of its 2013 challenge. The Asian Institute…
Hult Prize Semi-Finalists
LONDON, March 6, 2013 – After evaluating over 250 social start-up pitches from more than 1,000 students, the Hult Prize today announced the regional winners of its 2013 challenge. The Asian Institute…
Boston’s future social entrepreneurs competing for $1 million Hult Prize [Boston Metro]
Students from Boston and across the globe will spend the next few months competing for a $1 million grant to get their ideas on how to solve the global food…
Doing good: Students spend a week exploring the world of microfinance
Microfinance was the unofficial theme at Hult last week as students learned the ins and outs of notable charitable finance organizations, both on and off campus. The week began with…
The Legacy of Inspirational Teachers
I can count on both hands the number of teachers I’ve had – from the primary to the graduate level – who I’ve found inspiring in some way. I can…
Having Faith in your Students
A few weeks ago my MBA students, all 183 of them, did something that many of my academic colleagues had told me would be impossible. Within the first three weeks…
Creative Problem Solving is One Video Clip Away
Need a spark to light your creative fire first thing in the morning? Do have that cup of coffee or tea to activate your senses, but don’t be so eager…
It’s never too late to start: Alumni advise aspiring entrepreneurs
From it’s never too late to start, to understanding customer pain points, Pashadelic founder Kenji Yamamura (MFIN 2011, MBA 2012) and Globify.me founder Alex Mason (MBA 2011) offer some sound…
Self-Awareness is the New Self-Confidence
In our research, we at Hult Labs have been talking to employers about what they want to see from MBA graduates. Recently, the BBC featured an article that touches on…
Can You Say it in 140 Characters?
Something momentous has happened to you, or a momentous thought has struck you, and now you want to share. Let’s say Twitter is your medium for dispensing your news. As…
Why I’m a Teacher
Preparing for the final day of teaching a business strategy course to my MBA students this year, I stopped—for what may have been the first time in my career—to really…
Problem Solving, One Marshmallow at a Time
So you have a problem. And you need a solution. Where do you start? One approach involves 20 sticks of spaghetti, tape, string, and one (just one) marshmallow. Say what?…
From Wharton to Carnegie Mellon, B-Schools Set Up Shop in San Francisco [Wall Street Journal]
More Business Schools, Such as Wharton and Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper, Stake Claims in the San Francisco Bay Area Business schools warn students against entering saturated markets. But they may not…
For Women Aspiring to Lead…Take a Second Look at Public Service [Huffington Post]
We need more women in the higher echelons of public service. This last election cycle in the U.S. was historic in that women for the first time now represent 20%…
Practice Makes Perfect: On Writing & Why Talent Is Not Required
Business graduate students are asked to wear many hats during their programs, and this is intentional. The objective is to mimic some of the realities of the business world in…
Local experts speak to Hult Prize hopefuls aiming to help the global food crisis
“So you think you can solve the global food crisis?” Hult’s SoBiz: Beyond Profit club members asked their fellow students during a panel discussion on November 15. Five Bay Area…
Why Learning Is Not About The Struggle, But The Approach
Have you ever struggled with a math problem, or getting through a stream of consciousness novel? If your answer is “no”, then you can probably stop reading now. But, if…
In global search for ideas, big companies mimic start-ups [Latitude News]
Panel discussion on global innovation, hosted by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). TiE’s mission, says Executive Director Vanita Shastri, is to foster entrepreneurship and help aspiring young entrepreneurs through mentoring, networking…
A New Approach To Creativity: A Mashup of Art & Science
Creativity is not the sole purview of the art world, which means there’s some hope for those of us outside of it. In a TEDxTokyo talk earlier this year, IDEO…
President Bill Clinton Announces the Hult Prize at the Clinton Global Initiative
President Bill Clinton delivers a Commitment Announcement on behalf of the Hult International Business School and the Hult Prize at the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York…
Five Ingredients For Building A Successful Team
Team work and team-building is ubiquitous, but extraordinary team work and team-building is not. So after a new university president asked Patrick Sanaghan “How do you build a stellar senior…
Professor Nick van der Walt Chairs 6th Annual CFO Strategies Forum Middle East
Despite the Eurozone developments and slow down, the Middle East’s economy is showing promising signs of growth. The 6th Annual Strategies Forum Middle East hosted over 100 CFOs and financial…
Crowdsourcing: a problem shared [VISION Magazine]
Harnessing the power of consumers through social media to share problems and find solutions is revolutionising the way businesses find new ideas, engage with their customers and secure investment. Vision…
President Bill Clinton and Hult Prize Look to Millennials to Solve the Global Food Crisis at the Clinton Global Initiative
(NEW YORK – September 25, 2012) The Hult Prize, formerly known as the Hult Global Case Challenge, announced today that it has launched a start-up accelerator for social entrepreneurship. It…