Annual Competition Teaches the Value of Challenge-Based Learning

High school students across the globe have the chance to solve real-world business challenges by entering the 2023 Hult Future Leaders Challenge, a free and innovative competition that connects students with multinational organizations to teach actionable skills. This Hult International Business School contest reimagines practical learning in an online setting, combining Hult’s interactive virtual skills labs and professor masterclasses with a current brief from a global organization. Young contestants compete to find solutions and win scholarship funding, all while gaining highly relevant business experience.

“At its core, the Hult Future Leaders Challenge reflects our educational philosophy as a business school: putting doing at the center of learning,” said Mona Dhillon, Executive Vice President and Provost at Hult International Business School. “This exciting global challenge is getting increasingly popular each year, and it is fun for us to reimagine how we create experiences and opportunities for students worldwide and to offer a glimpse of the impact they can make.”

In 2022, Hult launched challenges from campuses in London and Boston with industry leading FMCG company Unilever. Nearly 600 students in more than 30 countries took part in the live online competition, tasked with creating multimedia marketing campaigns to promote Clear Hair, a Unilever brand, to Gen Z audiences. Teams tuned in to weekly live virtual masterclasses hosted by Hult professors; and over the course of ten weeks, 115 teams were narrowed to ten finalist teams via immersion sessions with Hult professors and Unilever executives. The 2022 winning teams each received £10,000 GBP or $15,000 USD. In London, that was Team Saigonese of the Canadian International School of Vietnam. The 2022 Boston challenge winner was Team Nous Consultants from Blue Valley School, Costa Rica.

Submissions for the 2023 Challenge will open in April 2023; the contest then will be held from September to December 2023. For competition inquiries and submission details, please contact Mike Montgomery, Strategic Partnerships Director at Hult, at UK +44 7940 419964 or via email at Mike.Montgomery@Hult.edu.

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