Hult Alumni Magazine NEW Edition Hult Alumni Magazine 2017 | Page 23

An example of a current project involves the Hult Prize , a competition where hundreds of student teams design new ventures to address social and environmental problems . We are interested in questions including : Do successful teams in the Hult Prize competition have different personal or team characteristics ? Which process of venture ideation is most efficient ? And what has been the impact of the Hult Prize ? Three researchers from Hult — one from Ashridge , one from Boston , and one from San Francisco — have started to tackle these research questions through surveys and interviews with current and previous Hult Prize participants . Their conclusions will immediately affect how we teach social entrepreneurship , how we advise participants to form teams , and how we advise students and mentors to interact .
Over the next few years , we expect that alumni will be able to read about research findings from their former professors in key publications . Our research findings will address questions that our alumni will find interesting , such as how they can evaluate different business strategies for their potential to disrupt the market , and what trends will transform their current industries . Finally , we anticipate that within the next 12 months we will be able to offer significant research partnership opportunities with the companies that employ our alumni .
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