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YOUR CURRICULUM
Challenges build core skills
As a Hult student, you will compete in the Future
Challenge as the capstone of your degree program.
Beyond the core curriculum, you are encouraged to
participate in optional challenges that take place both
on and off campus across the year. You’ll learn to refine
a pitch, tell a story, and gain confidence in developing
complex answers to pressing business questions.
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Local Challenge
You will have opportunities to engage in local and
regional challenges to begin building your skills and
to gain a deeper understanding of your new home
city and region. Each campus has its own strategy for
giving students exposure to these types of challenges,
which may include events held on campus by staff and
clubs, as well as local off-campus challenges.
The Hult Prize
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A truly global challenge in its scope and scale,
the Hult Prize attracts 100,000 students from 300
academic institutions around the world, with teams
competing to use the power of entrepreneurship to
solve major global social problems. All Hult students
are encouraged to compete in the Hult Prize, with on-
campus support and mentoring as teams compete to
reach the finals and win the $1 million USD prize.
Future Challenge
Your core challenge in the spring is the capstone to
your core courses and demands the utmost creativity.
Building upon themes established throughout the
program, the Future Challenge calls upon students to
harness disruptive technology to create a compelling
new business opportunity, either for your own startup
or for an existing company.
You’ll prepare for the Future Challenge by learning
about the disruptive technologies themselves (e.g.
Blockchain, Gene Editing, Artificial Intelligence). You
and your team are then given three weeks to develop
innovative business ideas utilizing a disruptive
technology. Winning teams will present their ideas
to external judges who include senior executives,
entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists.
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1 L’Oréal kicks off their brand awareness challenge to masters
students and takes their questions.
2 Five organizations with social missions in need of marketing
strategies kick off the NGO Hackathon.
3 Team SLS work on their solution to the aviation challenge set
by Intelak, the startup incubator by Emirates, GE, and Etisalat.
4 Finalists deliver their pitch to Nissan’s leadership team.
5 Students at our Dubai campus present their solution to
Nestlé’s challenge.
6 Team tureNa get inspired at the Hult Prize regionals in Lagos,
Nigeria, where they pitched their idea to transform waste
into energy.
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