Announcing The Global Social Venture Competiton (GSVC) Asia - Africa 2012
IITD Notices
Greetings from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India.
I would like to draw your attention to an exciting business plan competition that we run, in association with Berkeley, Columbia, and London business schools:
Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) 2012
Calling all profit-making ideas that have high social impact
The GSVC is the world’s largest and oldest student-led business plan competition whose mission is to promote entrepreneurial businesses that:
o have clear and measurable social objectives and impact
o are financially sustainable, i.e. profitable or self-supporting through revenue generation
The Indian School of Business (ISB) as the Asia – Africa Partner is responsible for promoting the GSVC in India, China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, UAE and Eastern Africa.
Eligibility:
· Teams must have at least one member currently enrolled in any full time masters level (post graduate) programme or who has completed such a course within the last two years (not before 2010)
· Team size: minimum 3, maximum 5
· Existing social ventures that are less than three years old can apply as long as the above two criteria are satisfied
I have enclosed a presentation highlighting the details of the competition. Further information is available at www.isb.edu/gsvc
Important dates:
1. November 07, 2011: Submission of executive summary to ISB at gs...@isb.edu. This is optional; teams sending in exec summaries will be provided feedback
2. December 27, 2011: Submission of Final Business Plans to ISB at gs...@isb.edu
3. January 7, 2012: Preliminary evaluation of B-plans at ISB
4. March 8 - 10, 2012: GSVC Asia - Africa Regional Finals at ISB
5. April 19 - 20, 2012: Global Finals at Haas, Berkeley
Note:
We would recommend that teams from your University send in the five-page executive summary by November 07, 2011 to get feedback on their plans
Last date for submission of full business plan is December 27, 2011
I request you to give wide publicity to this amongst your students and alumni. Looking forward to a good level of response from your institution
Regards,
The ISB-GSVC Team
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S Subramonia Sarma Mayura Balasubramanian Meghana Sawant 040-2318 7157 / 7193
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About the ISB
The Indian School of Business evolved from the need for a world class business school in Asia. Our founders - some of the best minds from the corporate and academic worlds- visualized the leadership needs of emerging Asian economies. The ISB is committed to its role in creating such leaders through its innovative programmes, outstanding faculty and thought leadership. The ISB has formed academic alliances with the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the London Business School (LBS), bringing the best of global management practices and thinking into our curriculum. We offer a one year Post Graduate Programme in Management. The class size is 570 this year and the average work experience of the class is 5.5 years. We started in the year 2001 and this year were ranked 13 in the Financial Times global ranking of business schools.