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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
Date TBD

Mentor Mixer for Haas Semi-Finalists
Location TBD

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
Social Entrepreneurship



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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