Innovation in Social Entrepreneurship
Case Competition

VISION:

Founded in 2011, the Innovation in Social Entrepreneurship (ISE) Case Competition offers graduate students from top schools around the nation the opportunity to come together and apply business skills to help solve a live strategic issue faced by innovative social organizations.

ABOUT ISE CASE COMPETITION:

The Marriott School Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance is happy to announce that Brigham Young University will be hosting the second annual ISE Case Competition. Each participating institution will send a team of four graduate students. Participation in the competition will provide students with the opportunity to:
 

  • Compete against, learn from, and network with top students from other graduate programs.
  • Network with and learn from successful social entrepreneurs.
  • Focus on a real-time, real-life issue facing a global entrepreneur's organization.


The 2011 ISE Case Competition drew teams from University of Michigan, George Washington University, University of Washington, and Brigham Young University. Last year's focus organization, Fundacion Paraguaya, was founded by Martin Burt, a world-renowned social entrepreneur who has been recognized by both the Skoll Foundation and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Teams worked to solve a real-world, pressing issue that Burt's organization is currently facing. As Martin Burt was one of this year's judges, students had the opportunity to present their ideas directly to him.

The 2012 ISE Case Competition will be featuring Community Enterprise Solutions and a strategic issue that they are currently faced with. Teams will be presenting to CE Solution's co-founder, Greg Van Kirk, who has been recognized as an Ashoka Lemelson Fellow for his work in fighting poverty through the creation of The MicroConsignment Model.

BYU will cover the lodging and food costs for each team of four graduate students. Participating students/schools will be responsible for their own airfare and transportation while in Utah; a shuttle will be provided from the hotel to competition events. The competition will be held in conjunction with a social entrepreneurship conference and TEDxBYU that will host some of the world's most innovative social entrepreneurs. Participants will be automatically registered for these events and fees will be covered.

We hope that you will partner with us in creating a venue that will enhance awareness of social issues in the world by sending a team to participate in the ISE Case Competition in March 2012 at BYU. Please respond by 24 February 2012 if you plan on sending a team. Please register your team by filling out our Registration Form.

Feel free to contact us at ISECaseCompetition@byu.edu with any questions; we look forward to hearing from you soon

Registration

Teams should register by 03 February 2012. Click HERE to register.