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YOUR CURRICULUM Where entrepreneurs flourish #1 in new graduates starting a business Bloomberg Businessweek 2016 Best Undergraduate Business Schools. #7 in new graduates who went to a startup Bloomberg Businessweek 2016 Best Undergraduate Business Schools. Core Challenges In addition to your hands-on class projects, you’ll take part in four competitive team challenges during your degree. Startup Challenge Design, develop, pitch, and promote a product or service to a specific target audience. Social Impact Challenge Think on a global scale to solve a pressing social issue affecting millions of people, modeled on the Hult Prize. Major Challenge Use the theory you’ve learned in your major classes and apply it to the real world and real companies. 4 Capstone: Hult Business Challenge Bring your own startup to market or solve a global corporation’s innovation challenge in this final, capstone project. Entrepreneurs, you will be supported by our in-house accelerator, Hult Founders Lab, and compete against other teams in your final pitch to investors. Corporate contenders, finalists will pitch their ideas directly to the client. In 2017, Amazon asked students to help them grow their startup platform. For 2018, F1 giant McLaren wanted ideas on how they can diversify sponsorship, and trailblazing crowd-sourced platform Yelp has challenged students to find new ways to increase their user-generated content. 5 6 1 The executive team from McLaren kicks off their 2018 Hult Business Challenge at our London campus. 2 Hult Founders Lab hosts a panel discussion on the future of entrepreneurship with Dhiraj Mukherjee, the co-founder of Shazam. 3 Students respond to the challenge set by Amazon Launchpad to help them grow their startup platform. 4 Team ENPOV pitches their solution to the 2018 Hult Prize challenge—to harness the power of energy to transform the lives of millions. 5 Team ENPOV in Ethiopia conducting on-the-ground research for their social impact enterprise. 6 A finalist competes in the challenge set by Virgin to launch LifeStart, their student entrepreneurs launchpad. HULT.EDU/APPLY 35