We invited students to show us how they are making this world a better place through student projects, start-up enterprises, and new careers. Their videos demonstrate how their work is making an impact in the developing world and how the MBA experience helped make it a reality.
Teams listed by name of business school. The top 5 videos as selected by online voting will advance to the next round of judging by our selection committee.
Charles M. Snipes School of Business at Lenoir-Rhyne University "Helping Better in Haiti" = 2357
Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley "The loveLife Project" = 834
Emerging markets need business leadership to bring innovative ideas, strategic visions and specialized skills to market their resources, improve living standards and achieve sustainable growth.
Business schools and their students play a key role in realizing development goals – from creating social innovation to improving health care to achieving shared economic growth – and we’re looking for MBAs who are making a difference.
Watch this video to see how MBAs are making a difference.
Through the MBA Challenge, GBSN calls attention to the enormous potential that business schools hold to improve quality of life in developing countries by fostering a new generation of problem-solvers.
The first place winner will have the chance to showcase their video at the GBSN 2012 conference in Delhi, India.
GBSN’s MBA Challenge is open to current MBA students and MBA graduates of the past five years. All accredited full-time, part-time, and EMBA programs are considered eligible for purposes of this contest. Current students will be asked to verify their enrollment. Recent graduates must demonstrate the successful completion of their MBA degree on or after February 28, 2007.
Submissions can come from individuals or teams. Teams will need to designate one team leader. Participants may only submit one video, regardless of whether it is a team or individual submission; multiple entries will not be accepted.
All participants must be 18 years of age or older by the start of the competition.
Submissions for GBSN’s MBA Challenge can be made online between March 1 and March 31, 2012. All submissions must be complete by 11:45pm EST on March 31, 2012 to be considered.
March 1: Open for submissions and public voting March 31: Close of submissions April 1: Open for public voting April 15: Close of public voting and 5 finalists selected April 16-22: Committee selects winners April 30: Winners announced June 12-13: Prizes awarded at the 2012 GBSN Conference in Delhi, India
Click here to submit your entry between March 1st and 31st, 2012 (or copy and past this URL into your browser window: http://promoshq.wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/173374) and fill out the entry form online and submit your video. Be sure to have designated a team leader and have the contact information for each member of your team. You'll also want to prepare an abstract or description of your project to submit along with the video.
Video Length & Format
Videos must not exceed 6 minutes in length. GBSN encourages creativity in the making of submissions, which may include photo-essays, videos captured by traditional cameras, mobile phones, computer cameras or any other recording device, or converted powerpoint presentations. For those who need help converting a photo essay or powerpoint file into a video file format, please visit YouTube help videos.
If you have any questions about entering the contest, please contact Page Buchanan at
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Starting from April 1, 2012, viewers can vote for their favorite video submitted to this contest. Each viewer is allowed to vote once each day. Voting is closed on 11:59PM EST April 15, 2012. The 5 most popular videos will enter the final competition.
The 2nd Step - Committee Selection
Once 5 finalists are determined, a committee made up of GBSN Member business schools, GBSN corporate supporters, and experts in the field of business education and private sector development will select the winners.
A selection committee made up of GBSN Member business schools, GBSN corporate supporters, and experts in the field of business education and private sector development will select three finalists.
The selection committee will be looking for the following qualities in the winning submission:
Innovation – The winning submission will demonstrate an innovative approach to overcoming challenges and achieving results. The selection committee will be looking imaginative solutions such as creative application of business practices, new forms of partnerships, innovative technologies.
Impact – The selection committee will be looking for a positive impact on those involved, including project partners, clients, the local community, and other identified stakeholders or beneficiaries. Selection committee members will favor those submissions which show sustainability. Has been achieved or has been taken into consideration in the design of the project/ intervention / organization.
Developing countries – All submissions must be linked to impact in a developing country. Participants do not need to be based in developing countries, nor does the work necessarily need to take place in a developing country, but there must be a positive impact on stakeholders in developing countries, For work done virtually from abroad, judges will be looking for submissions that demonstrate a strong link to on-the-ground results.
Business education – All submissions must show how the MBA experience played a role in the success of the project. This can come in many forms, including skills learned, contacts made, doors opened, funding secured, or any other opportunity the MBA program provided to make this project a success.
Creativity – The selection committee will consider the creativity of the video into account when selecting a winner. GBSN encourages participants to engage the audience by telling a compelling story with interesting visual and audio components.
Winners will be notified by April 30, 2012 and results of the contest will be announced in the April edition of GBSN’s newsletter.
G. Anand Anandalingam Dean Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
A dynamic leader with a strong founding in academia, Dean G. “Anand” Anandalingam has been with the Smith School since 2001 and was appointed dean in 2008. During this time he has served in various key senior leadership positions as senior associate dean and as chair of the Smith School’s decision, operations and information technologies department. He has played a role in supporting the school’s rise in reputation in the past decade with expansion projects that more than doubled the physical size of the school and equipped it with state-of-the-art infrastructure; and the recruitment of a significant number of new faculty members from the world’s premier research institutions. He was also responsible for helping to develop Smith’s global executive programs and led the school’s effort to revamp and innovate the MBA curriculum.
Before joining Smith in 2001, he was at the University of Pennsylvania for nearly 15 years where he was the National Center Professor of Resource and Technology Management, and a professor in both the Engineering School and the Wharton School. His positions at the University of Pennsylvania included serving as the chair of the Department of Systems Engineering and directing the Executive Master’s Program in Technology Management. He has received numerous academic and teaching awards while at the Smith School, as well as a variety of scholarships, fellowships, prizes and endowed appointments at Pennsylvania, Harvard and Cambridge. He has been on editorial boards of top-tier journals and has also graduated more than 20 PhD students, many of who have joined top-30 academic institutions. He received his PhD from Harvard University.
Della Bradshaw Editor, Business Education Financial Times
Della Bradshaw has worked at the Financial Times for the past 24 years in various writing and editing positions, initially in the technology section of the paper where she was the lead technology writer. Della initiated the business education page at the FT in November 1995 and published the first FT business school ranking in 1999. She has been business education editor since that time.
Prior to joining the Financial Times, Della worked for a number of technology publications and prior to that as an English teacher in Italy, Turkey, and Japan and the UK.
Ken Lee Senior Alliance Advisor, Office of Development Partners/Private Sector Alliance Division USAID
Ken Lee is a Senior Alliance Advisor in the Office of Development Partners/Private Sector Alliance Division (ODP/PSA) and provides technical assistance to Missions and Bureaus as they design and build public-private alliances for development. Mr. Lee works across a variety of sec-tors and provides special assistance with regard to the engagement of higher education institutions with a focus on such areas as economic growth, workforce development, climate change, water, and the application of science and technology.
Mr. Lee also plays a key role in broadening USAID’s collaboration with various types of partners, including major multinational corporations, host-country businesses, key business associations, foundations, venture cap-talists, and private philanthropists.
For the past 10 years, Mr. Lee worked in the Bureau of Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade where he served as Senior Advisor for Higher Education and Workforce Development within the Office of Education. His work involved extensive field support, including the development of higher education strategies and the design and evaluation of various higher education programs.
He placed special emphasis on developing higher education programs that would compliment Mission programming in various technical sectors (economic growth, health, education, democracy and governance, and natural resource management). He also worked with ODP/PSA and the Agency’s Regional Alliance Builders to develop alliances and increase collaboration among higher education institutions and the private sector.
Prior to joining USAID, Mr. Lee worked for more than 15 years as an educator and consultant. He earned his B.A. in International Relations at Carleton College, an M.A. in Political Science at U.C. Berkeley, and a J.D. at UCLA.
Marika McCauly-Sine International Public Affairs Director The Coca-Cola Company
Marika McCauley Sine is International Public Affairs Director at The Coca-Cola Company, based in Atlanta. She is responsible for the Company's engagements and partnerships with a wide range of global stakeholders, focusing primarily on the Company's economic and social footprint in emerging markets and on fostering economic empowerment throughout the global Coca-Cola value chain.
Marika proposed and championed 5 BY 20, the Company’s global initiative to empower 5 million women in its global business system by 2020 – a program in which she continues to play a leading role. She also pioneered major partnerships to economically empower more than 90,000 small farmers producing fruits for Coca-Cola’s juices with partners such as the Gates Foundation, TechnoServe, USAID and the Inter-American Development Bank in Haiti, Uganda and Kenya. Since 2005, she has worked at Coca-Cola’s headquarters in Atlanta and at Coca-Cola Indochina, based in Vietnam.
Marika is a graduate of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and the College of William & Mary. In 2010, Marika was selected to be part of The Aspen Institute’s First Movers Fellowship, a program which recognizes exceptional business leaders integrating corporate profitability and societal value. Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Marika worked in the non-profit sector on issues such as micro-credit, child labor and poverty alleviation. She also served as an AmeriCorps Volunteer at a food bank in rural Michigan. Marika hails from Hawaii and has lived in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Enase Okonedo Dean/Director Lagos Business School/Association of African Business Schools
Enase Okonedo, Dean of Lagos Business School (LBS), is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA). She has a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting, an MBA from IESE Business School, Barcelona and a Doctorate in Business Administration from International School of Management (ISM), Paris.
She joined Lagos Business School in 1995 after working for several years in the Nigerian Banking sector. As a full-time faculty member at Lagos Business School, she taught courses on problem solving and decision making, corporate financial management and financial strategy on the Executive MBA and MBA programmes as well as on all executive programmes.
Before her appointment as dean in July 2009, Dr Okonedo had held several leadership positions at LBS at various times including Executive MBA Director; Director, Degree Programmes; Faculty Director and Deputy Dean, Academics. She was appointed a member of the Management Team of the School in February 2004 and a member of the University Governing Council of Pan-African University in July 2009.
She is a member of the senate of Pan-African University and serves as director of the Association of African Business Schools (AABS), the academic advisory board of Global Business School Network (GBSN) as well as on the board of several indigenous companies.
She has extensive consulting experience notably on business restructuring, financial institutions and financial strategy. She has conducted research in the areas of credit management in Nigerian companies; treasury management in Nigerian companies; decision making among Nigerian CEO's and investor behaviour in the Nigerian stock market.
Dan Parker Engagement Manager L.E.K Consulting/2011 MBA Challenge Winner
Dan Parker is an Engagement Manager at L.E.K. Consulting, a global strategic management consulting firm. His team was selected as the Global Business School Network's first place winner of the 2011 MBA Video Challenge. Dan and his team worked for nearly a year with Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO), a non-profit organization that preserves wildlife by providing incentives for poachers to become farmers. He traveled to Zambia to conduct an organizational assessment, develop a sustainable business model, and design a geographic expansion plan. He has a passion for bringing sound business principles to the non-profit sector in order to create sustainable models that solve social and environmental challenges.
Watch Dan's Team's Winning Video
Ron Sibert Director of Business Development, Africa GMAC
Dr. Sibert currently serves as Director of Business Development, Africa at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). Prior to assuming this role he served as Director of Strategic Alliances in which he provided strategic direction to Council in its interactions and relationships with organizations and various stakeholder groups in the U.S. and abroad.
As a former MBA Programme director, he led Full-time, Part-time and Executive MBA programmes as well as MBA career services at the University of Delaware. His earlier public policy-related accomplishments at the University culminated in his appointment as Chairman of the Governor’s Advisory Council for Exceptional Citizens with oversight responsibility for the State Department of Education. In December 2011, he completed his 2-year term on the board of directors of the Ph.D. Project, an organization dedicated to increasing the representation of minority doctoral professors in business schools.
The designated leader of the winner team will receive an all expenses paid trip to Delhi, India for the 7th Annual Conference of the Global Business School Network. The conference will take place on June 11-13, 2012. The winner will be presented with an award and have the opportunity to present the winning video to the participants of the conference. He/She will also be invited to participate in all conference events, including CEO panels, breakout sessions, and workshops.
2&3 Place
The 2nd & 3rd Place winners will be highlighted by GBSN in newsletter, website and Annual Conference program.
Please contact GBSN with any questions: Page Schindler Buchanan Communications and Media Officer Global Business School Network +1.202.628.9040
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The 1st Place winner is a team from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, "$300 House Project"
2nd Place
In second is a team from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, "UNC Kenan-Flagler Impact"
3rd Place
Coming in 3rd is a student from Thunderbird School of Global Management, "An Afghan in Africa"
2011 - 1st Place
Last year’s 1st Place winner is the team from Haas Business School, University of California, Berkeley (USA) led by Hrishika Vuppala.
Watch their stories.
2011-2nd Place
Team from IMD (Switzerland)
2011-3rd Place
Team from Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile) and team from Thunderbird School of Global Management (USA)
Food for Thought
A nascent
private sector, far too few qualified faculty members, marginal primary and secondary
preparation, and historical ambivalence - or even antagonism - between higher education
and the private sector all serve to exacerbate the legacy of insufficient financial
investment in graduate management education activities.
-"Assessment of Graduate Management Education", William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Business School (2003)
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