Original Story: Nathaniel Luce, Vanderbilt Business Link: https://business.vanderbilt.edu/news/2017/11/15/1-million-hult-prize-challenge-2018-kicks-off-vanderbilt/ Vanderbilt Business and Turner Family Center host first-round pitch competition; Team SoLLago advances to regional finals How do you harness the power of energy to transform the lives of 10 million people? That’s the challenge put to teams vying for $1 million in the Hult Prize competition, a global
Social Entrepreneurship and Ed-Tech: What you need to know before getting involved
Original Author: Michael Baker I’m passionate about education technology, and ensuring that it has impactful implementation in the developing process and developing world. Many people are turning to education technology as a work-around for social impact and change, but it is important to involve key stakeholders along the way. Given that, I wanted to write
Nat Robinson ’18 (MBA’07)
Original Story: Vanderbilt Law School Link: https://law.vanderbilt.edu/news/nat-robinson-18-mba07/ Nat Robinson’s sense of humor is reflected on the front of his 2016 book, Creating a Cash Cow in Kenya, in which he relates his seven-year experience of starting and running a micro lending company in Nairobi. The cover features a Kenyan man transporting a cow on a motorbike. Robinson
Climbing the Social (Impact) Ladder: Summer Fellows Use Internships to Switch Career Paths
Original story: Owen Graduate School of Management Link: https://business.vanderbilt.edu/news/2017/08/29/climbing-social-impact-ladder-summer-fellows-use-internships-switch-career-paths/ Kayla Armgardt and Mike Woodnorth (MBA’18) use their Turner Family Center summer fellowships to support an art collective and break into social impact investing Most MBA summer interns don’t work out of a converted bowling alley that looks like a psychedelic art installation met a futuristic
Have Fellowship, Will Travel: Team Leaf Visits Six Countries
Turner Family Center summer fellows Connor Echols and Alejandro Sabillon (MBA ’18) seek to provide secure mobile banking for refugees Original story: Owen Graduate School of Management Link: https://business.vanderbilt.edu/news/2017/08/22/fellowship-will-travel-team-leaf-visits-six-countries/ What if your MBA summer internship required traveling around the world? It may sound far-fetched, but for Connor Echols and Alejandro Sabillon (both MBA ’18), this unusual
LaunchTN Announces 2016-2017 University Venture Challenge Partners
Nashville, Tenn., November 28, 2016 – Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN) announced today the second annual Statewide University Venture Challenge (UVC). Following a submission process, LaunchTN has selected 20 entrepreneurial focused competitions that are being hosted across 13 Tennessee-based universities. The UVC launched in 2016 to create a more connected entrepreneurial community by engaging existing university programs