Global Social Venture Competition
Congratulations to all the finalists and winners
of the 2009 Global Finals Events!
View the Finals program as a pdf file.
View the Symposium program as a pdf file.
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.
| Haas Calendar 2008-2009 | |
| November 24, 2008 | UC Berkeley Business Plan and GSVC Mixer for participants (register) |
| December 1, 2008 | Best Practice Series - Social Impact Assessment |
| January 21, 2009 | Executive Summaries Due - visit www.gsvc.org to enter |
| February 19, 2009 | Mentor Mixer - Haas Regional Semi-Finalists San Francisco |
| March 9, 2009 | Business Plans due for Haas Semi-Finalists |
| March 20, 2009 | Haas Regional Semi-Finals |
| April 7, 2009 | Business Plans due for Global Finalists |
| April 24, 2009 | Global Finals - Open to the Public UC Berkeley 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
| April 25, 2009 | GSVC Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship For more info: www.gsvc.org/symposium |
For more information and specific rules, visit www.gsvc.org.
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