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Thunderbird Kicks Off $20,000 Sustainable Innovation Competition; Early Registration for Competition Opens to Graduate-Level Business Students Worldwide |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: Thunderbird School of Global Management's third annual Global Sustainable Innovation Summit opens early registration today. The global competition draws the brightest graduate-level students from top universities around the world, and requires students to develop sustainable and innovative business solutions to real-world challenges presented by sponsoring companies. The winning team receives a $20,000 prize and the title of "Global Champions of Sustainable Innovation." Last year, the challenge attracted 118 teams from 59 universities in 15 countries. The competition begins Oct. 6 with an online round of questions from sponsoring companies with a global focus seeking innovative solutions to their every-day business challenges. Thunderbird's Global Sustainable Innovation Summit builds upon the school's efforts in global citizenship and its mission to educate global leaders who create sustainable prosperity worldwide. This year's sponsors and summit partners include Johnson & Johnson, APS, EcoLab, BillMatrix, Xerox, and Net Impact. To sign up as a judge and for judging selection and guidelines please visit http://www.sustainableinnovation.thunderbird.edu. Founded in 1946, Thunderbird is the first and oldest graduate management school focused exclusively on global business. It is regarded as the world's leading institution in the education of global managers and has operations in the United States, Latin America, Asia and Europe, including Russia. More than 38,000 students have graduated from Thunderbird, and its alumni live and work in more than 140 countries. For more about Thunderbird, please visit: http://www.thunderbird.edu/. AScribe Newswire distributes news from nonprofit and public sector organizations.
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