Taiwanese university graduates get Hult Prize

A team from the National Chengchi University, called IMPCT, Hult Prize won this year, beating more than 21,000 other groups of major business schools in the world. Students, namely Chen An-nung, Taiwan; Prudot Juan Diego Paredes, Honduras; Taylor Scobbie, of Canada; and Andres Escobar of El Salvador, are graduates of the Master's program in International Business Administration from the National Chengchi University; and they received the stipend prize worth one million US dollars from the hands of president William B. Clinton in a ceremony in Manhattan, United States, September 26, as shown in the graph. The Hult Prize, sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative, recognized since 2009 for the best business plan that generates market-based response to the most pressing social problems. The challenge this year was to early education to over ten million children in areas of poverty by 2020. The IMPCT team was among the finalists with their fundraising program on the Internet with whom he established a center for early education Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador. (Photo by CNA