第一岁不怕解决迫切的社会问题
TheHULT奖基金会是一个崭露头角从世界大学出现的年轻社会企业家的启动加速器。这是社会良好的最大学生竞争。The annual, year-long competition crowd-sources ideas from students after challenging them to solve a pressing social issue around topics such as food security, water access, energy, and education. Winners receive $1million in seed capital, donated by the Hult Family (Founders ofEF), as well as mentorship and advice from the international business community. The Prize is a partnership between Hult International Business School and the克林顿全球倡议（CGI）。今年的挑战解决了拥挤的城市空间问题;去年的挑战专注于幼儿教育。我问了去年的Babson Hult奖竞赛的获奖者分享他们与我们的经历。金博宝我很高兴他们同意了！
以下客座博客是由Michael Horbowy和Daniel Coley编写的：
During our first year at Babson, we were part of a small group of friends who formed a team to work on several projects together; the Hult Prize Competition was probably the hardest. We were forced to learn on-the-go and really trust and rely on our fellow team members.赢得Babson Hult奖竞赛后金博宝，我们在3月份开发了新的商业模式并批评了我们解决方案的每一部分。虽然我们的团队没有超越波士顿区域决赛，但这里有几个经验教训，这些课程从我们的时间竞争，为城市贫民窟带来早期儿童教育。
产品比服务更容易。
Initially our solution revolved around providing services to children in India. The main problem we faced was that services work very well in local areas, but they are extremely difficult to cost-effectively scale. After much debate and modeling, our team decided to pivot to a product-based solution which increased our potential reach by millions of children, shortened the estimated period of time it would take to reach them, dramatically cut costs, and reduced logistics and operations needed to successfully launch our company.
使用专家。
作为一名第一年的学生，由于我们在空间中缺乏经验，我们有很多学说。我们从未研究过，也没有关于幼儿教育的大多数人，所以我们的团队必须了解我们可以的一切，并迅速地确定关键问题。我们发现的最有用的来源是另一所大学的教授，他们开放，分享她在职业生涯中学到的一切。她基本上在几个小时内给了我们幼儿教育的碰撞课程。使用域专家寻找和与域名专家提供我们的团队的知识深度我们的竞争对手没有，并且允许我们的团队无视小问题，并真正关注城市贫民窟儿童面临的深层种子教育问题。
Build a Diverse Team.
虽然我们的团队与来自不同国家，背景和职业抱负的学生相当多样化，但我们都是所有商务学生。我们没有意识到这是一个障碍，直到听到一些其他的其他球队。通常，代替每个成员是一般主义者，团队都有专门从事他们的领域的成员。一些团队由工程，业务，儿童教育研究和统计数据的成员组成。一支球队的各种专业知识使他们能够思考不同的解决方案，更彻底的肉体的想法，甚至产生原型。
After the competition, our team decided not to continue with our solution because we were focused on getting summer internships. Overall, the competition was an amazing experience for our team; we were able to push ourselves to learn a completely new subject, and test our ability to work in a small team over the course of several months. We would definitely work together again, but if given the option, we would work on an issue that we are more knowledgeable about.