Global Social Venture Competition
NEWS: the 2009-2010 competition calendar is now available.
The Global Social Venture Competition [GSVC] is an innovative
partnership between the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley,
Columbia
Business School, London
Business School, Indian
School of Business, and Thammasat University, Thailand. The competition aims to foster
a new generation of business leaders that values the social
as well as the profit potential of business. It achieves this
goal by catalyzing and promoting for-profit and not-for-profit
ventures that create and measure both social and financial
Winning ventures have included a company that provides healthy meals to low-income schools, an alternative energy company,
a manufacturer of stylish women’s apparel and accessories,
a nonprofit charter school, an environmentally friendly manufacturing
technology company, a microfinance enterprise focused on the
developing world and a community-employment enterprise operating
in rural and low-income urban areas.
Venture teams must include at least one current graduate
business student, and all competing ventures must have been
in operation for fewer than three years. Substantial cash
awards are distributed to winning ventures each year.
For information about last year's events and winners, click here.
| Haas Calendar 2009-2010 | |
| November 23, 2009 | UC Berkeley Business Plan and GSVC Mixer for participants (more info) |
| December 8, 2009 | Best Practice Series: Social Ventures Financing and Impact |
| January 20, 2010 | Executive Summaries Due: visit www.gsvc.org to enter |
| February 3, 2010 | Haas Semi-Finalists announced |
February, 2010 |
Mentor Mixer for Haas Semi-Finalists |
| March, 2010 Date TBD |
Business Plans due for Haas Semi-Finalists |
| March 18, 2010 | Haas Regional Semi-Finals |
| March 22, 2010 | Haas Finalists announced |
| April 6, 2010 | Business Plans due for Global Finalists |
| April 22-24, 2010 | Global Finals - Open to the Public UC Berkeley |
| April 22-24, 2010 | GSVC Symposium on |
For more information and specific rules, visit www.gsvc.org.
2009 Events and Winners
Congratulations to all the finalists and winners of the 2009 Global Finals Events!
View the 2009 Finals program as a pdf file.
View the 2009 Symposium program as a pdf file.
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